Paul X. McCarthy

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Professor Paul X. McCarthy is a research leader and author specialising in computational social science. He applies advanced data analytics to economics, psychology and history to understand global innovation.

McCarthy is the CEO of League of Scholars and a co-founder of the Science of Startups initiative at the University of Oxford. This research has achieved worldwide success and has been featured in The Economist, The Times and Fast Company.

Currently, McCarthy also serves as a co-founder of Black Belt Global Venture Studio in Tokyo and holds academic positions as an Adjunct Professor at UNSW and an Industry Fellow at the UTS Data Science Institute.

Previously, he advised CSIRO’s Data61 and led strategy for SIRCA. He is the author of Online Gravity, a global bestseller on the economics of information.

Experience

  • 2018–present
    Honorary Fellow, Western Sydney University
  • 2013–present
    Adjunct Professor, UNSW Sydney
  • 2022–present
    Industry Fellow, UTS
  • 2015–2019
    Research Leader, CSIRO Data61

Education

  • 2000 
    Macquarie Graduate School of Management, MBA
  • 1994 
    University of Western Sydney, Masters of Design (Digital Media)
  • 1991 
    University of Sydney, Graduate Diploma in Arts (Fine Arts)
  • 1989 
    University of Sydney, Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

Publications

  • 2025
    arXiv preprint, The economics of global personality diversity
  • 2025
    Scientifc Data, Cosmos 1.0: a multidimensional map of the emerging technology frontier
  • 2024
    ACM Web Science, Harmony in the Australian Domain Space
  • 2023
    SSRN Working Paper, Corporate Social Responsibility and Shifting Social Norms: Online Data Reveals That Over 10,000 Businesses Now Support Indigenous Australians
  • 2023
    ISPIM , Mapping the World's Top R&D Firms and Emerging Technologies
  • 2023
    arXiv preprint , The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success.
  • 2023
    Scientific Reports, The impact of founder personalities on startup success
  • 2022
    Repec, Occupation-personality fit is associated with higher employee engagement and happiness
  • 2021
    Plos One, Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity
  • 2019
    PNAS, Social media-predicted personality traits and values can help match people to their ideal jobs
  • 2018
    引力, CITIC Press (Beijing)
  • 2017
    LSE Impact, Towards a momentum-based look at research excellence.
  • 2015
    Online Gravity, Simon & Schuster (Sydney, London & NY)

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Computing Machinery

Research Areas

  • Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing (0801)
  • Natural Language Processing (080107)
  • Economics (14)
  • History Of Ideas (220209)
  • Business And Management (1503)
  • Knowledge Representation And Machine Learning (170203)

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