Adjunct Professor Paul McCarthy
Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor Paul McCarthy

Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering

Professor Paul X McCarthy is a CEO, computational social science research leader and author.   His bestselling book Online Gravity explains how technology is rebooting economics worldwide and is now published in English (Simon & Schuster, London & Sydney), Chinese (Citic Press, Beijing) and Russian (AST, Moscow). McCarthy is a contributor to The Conversation, AFR and Forbes on business, technology and innovation.

McCarthy is CEO and co-founder of League of Scholars a startup working with Universities, Governments and Publishers including Nature and News Corporation to help understand who’s who in research worldwide. McCarthy is also co-founder of several innovative enterprises for IBM, NSW Government and CSIRO—Australia’s National Science Agency and the inventors of Wi-Fi. Previously he was a founding board member and Chairman of The Studio — a new global media tech hub launched in Sydney in 2018 by Scott Morrison, MP. 

McCarthy is a trusted adviser to Government and a number of technology startups and an Honorary Fellow at Western Sydney University.
E-mail
paul.mccarthy@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2015
    McCarthy PX, 2015, Online Gravity The Digital Giants Driving the Way You Live, Earn and Learn, Simon and Schuster
  • Journal articles | 2021
    McCarthy PX; Gong X; Eghbal S; Falster DS; Rizoiu MA, 2021, 'Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity', PLoS ONE, vol. 16, pp. e0249993, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249993
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kern ML; McCarthy PX; Chakrabarty D; Rizoiu MA, 2019, 'Social media-predicted personality traits and values can help match people to their ideal jobs', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, pp. 26459 - 26464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917942116
  • Preprints | 2020
    McCarthy PX; Gong X; Eghbal S; Falster DS; Rizoiu M-A, 2020, Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity
    Reports | 2019
    McCarthy P; Swayn M, 2019, Higher education and employment in Australia the impact of internships, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, https://production-ribit.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Ribit-Research-Higher-Education-Australia.pdf