Shingai Thornton

rsthornton@gmail.com · halcyonic.systems · github.com/rsthornton

education

• PhD student, Systems Science, Binghamton University (SUNY)2026–

• MS, Systems Science, Binghamton University (SUNY)2026

  Thesis: Testing Network Centrality for Economic Power Measurement: Structure and Boundaries in U.S. Interstate Trade.

  Advisor: Cliff Joslyn. Committee chair: Carlos Gershenson.

• BA, Social Sciences (Psychology), University of Southern California2012

experience

• Founder, Halcyonic Systems LLC2025–

  Systems research and analysis: systems modeling, network analysis and governance analysis for research infrastructure, civic technology and applied research clients.

• Writer, Ideas newsletter2023–

  Systems theory, political economy and cryptoeconomic systems.

• Independent researcher, blockchain systems2012–

  Over thirty published essays on the social, economic and governance dimensions of crypto systems.

talks

• Building Infrastructure for Hayek: An Anticipatory Systems SimulationOctober 2026

  Markets & Society, Mercatus Center, Falls Church, VA

• Eigenvector Centrality Reveals Structural Undervaluation in U.S. Interstate Commerce NetworksOctober 2026

  Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2026), Binghamton, NY

• Protocols are SystemsSeptember 2026

  Protocol Symposium 2026, online

funded research

• ResearchHub Foundation2026

  Open replication proposal: network centrality analysis of the U.S. Commodity Flow Survey.

research software

• BERT (Bounded Entity Reasoning Toolkit)

  Desktop environment for systems modeling and decomposition, in Rust.

• Hayekian Systems Explorer

  Interactive simulation of Hayekian coordination; the artifact for Markets & Society 2026.

• systems-science-foundations

  Formalization of systems-science ontologies (Klir, Bunge, Mobus) in Lean 4.

affiliations and skills

Member, International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), 2022–.

Python, Rust, R, SQL, Lean 4, TypeDB/TypeQL, NetworkX; agent-based modeling (NetLogo, Mesa, cadCAD).