John Meluso, PhD
Systems Engineer & Organization Scientist
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Hello and welcome! I'm John Meluso. I'm an Assistant Teaching Professor at Cornell Systems Engineering. My teaching and research focus on complex systems, both theoretical and applied. I work closely with Open Source Community Africa and maintain the University of Michigan's latex dissertation template.
Previously, I was an Ezra Systems Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell, and the Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow and the OCEAN Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont where I worked with Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. I completed my Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Design Science. At U-M, I studied Complex System Design with Jesse Austin-Breneman and Management & Organizations with Jose Uribe. Also on my committee were Scott Page and Lynette Shaw. To see my previous job market documents, check out my job market page.
Currently, I teach two classes:
SYSEN 6000: Foundations of Complex Systems
SYSEN 5380: Collective Intelligence.
Disciplines: management & organizations, systems engineering, complex systems, communication, social psychology, information science, design
Methods: network science, agent-based modeling, optimization, data science, interviews, surveys, diaries, ethnography
Topics: collective performance, innovation processes, data science, organizational culture, open source, openness, virtual collaboration, information & communication technology, miscommunication
Industry Experience: aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, software, management
Personal interests: podcasts, bunnies, coffee, succulents, science fiction, romantacy
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Meluso J., Hébert-Dufresne, L., Riedl, C., and Gao, H.O. Artificial collectives of specialists and generalists excel at different tasks. (In review).
[view | download | online]Meluso, J., Chambers, C., Littauer, R., Llamas N., Long Lingo, E., Mhangami, M., Pitt, B., Splitter, V., and Wang, H. (In press).
Opening up: Interdisciplinary guidance for managing open ecosystems. SSRN:4821969
[view | download | online]Meluso, J., Casari, A., McLaughlin, K., & Trujillo, M. (2025).
Invisible labor in open source software ecosystems. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), CSCW236:1-CSCW236:32. (ACM CSCW 2025)
[view | download | online]Meluso, J. & Hébert-Dufresne, L. (2023).
Multidisciplinary learning through collective performance favors decentralization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (34): e2303568120.
[view | download | online]Meluso, J., Austin-Breneman, J., Bagrow, J. P., & Hébert-Dufresne, L. (2022).
A Review and Framework for Modeling Complex Engineered System Development Processes. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 52(12): 7679-7691.
[view | download | online]Meluso, J., Johnson, S., & Bagrow, J. (2022).
Flexible environments for hybrid collaboration: redesigning virtual working through the four orders of design. Design Issues, 38(1): 55–69.
[view | download | online]Meluso, J. (2022).
Model supports storied social network theory. Nature Computational Science, 2(8): 471–472.
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