Mark McKnight

Principal Software Engineer

Mark McKnight has been working with Nicholas Christakis since 2009, first at Harvard Medical school and now in the Human Nature Lab at Yale University. Mark is in charge of developing the lab's software tools used to collect experimental and observational data about social networks including Breadboard, a software platform for developing experiments on networks and recruiting online participants, and Trellis a tablet app for mapping sociocentric networks in the field. Mark has a degree from Northeastern University in Music and Computer Science and enjoys: Boston baseball, board games, and his two boys.

Recent Publications

• “Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field,” Social Networks, Jul 2021
• “Exploiting Social Influence to Magnify Population-Level Behavior Change in Maternal and Child Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Network Targeting Algorithms in Rural Honduras,” BMJ Open, Dec 2016