# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaneer-bar-yam
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:28:41.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaneer-bar-yam"
name: "Yaneer Bar-Yam"
slug: "yaneer-bar-yam"
description: "Yaneer Bar-Yam is an American scientist and activist specializing in complex systems. An expert in the quantitative analysis of pandemics, he advised policy makers on the Western African Ebola virus epidemic and founded EndCoronavirus.org, a global network of several volunteers formed in February 2020 to provide information, guidelines, and policy advocacy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), an independent research institution that studies complex systems science and its real-world applications."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yaneer_Bar-Yam_preparing_for_his_talk_on_Day_2_of_Wikimania_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.613572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/yaneerbaryam"
    handle:    "yaneerbaryam"
sources:
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    title: "ينير بار يام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaneer_Bar-Yam"
    title: "Yaneer Bar-Yam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaneer_Bar-Yam"
    title: "Yaneer Bar-Yam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaneer_Bar-Yam"
    title: "Yaneer Bar-Yam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaneer_Bar-Yam"
    title: "Yaneer Bar-Yam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1718021"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump