Adjunct Professor Paul McCarthy

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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. 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.

McCarthy is a trusted adviser to Government and a number of data and AI based technology startups. McCarthy is an Industry Fellow at The UTS Data Science Institute and an Honorary Fellow at Western Sydney University.

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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 | 2023

McCarthy PX; Gong X; Braesemann F; Stephany F; Rizoiu MA; Kern ML, 2023, 'The impact of founder personalities on startup success', Scientific Reports, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41980-y

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, 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, 116, pp. 26459 - 26464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917942116

Journal articles | 2016

Browne G, 2016, 'Law Via the Internet 2015 Conference', LEGAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, 16, pp. 265 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1472669616000530
Preprints | 2023

Braesemann F; McCarthy P; Gong X; Stephany F; Rizoiu M-A; Kern M, 2023, The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2590597/v1

Preprints | 2023

Gong X; McFarland C; McCarthy P; Griffith C; Rizoiu M-A, 2023, Informing Innovation Management: Linking Leading R&D Firms and Emerging Technologies, , http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02476v1

Preprints | 2023

McCarthy PX; Gong X; Stephany F; Braesemann F; Rizoiu M-A; Kern ML, 2023, The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2302.07968

Reports | 2023

McCarthy PX; McFarland C; Gong X; Griffith C, 2023, The Atlas of Australia Online 2023, .au Domain Administration Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, https://www.auda.org.au/news-events-insights/reporting/research-reports/atlas-australia-online-2023

Preprints | 2020

McCarthy PX; Gong X; Eghbal S; Falster DS; Rizoiu M-A, 2020, Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2003.07049

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

Preprints |

McCarthy PX; Gong X; Stephany F; Braesemann F; Rizoiu M-A; Kern ML, The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4359859

Preprints |

Parker M; McCarthy PX, Corporate Social Responsibility and Shifting Social Norms: Online Data Reveals That Over 10,000 Businesses Now Support Indigenous Australians, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4578361

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