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Cevian LabsA 19-page CV, as its author wrote it.
Aaron Clauset
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of New Mexico (with distinction)2002 – 2006
B.S. Physics, Haverford College (with honors …)1997 – 2001
2degrees
Academic
Professor, Computer Science Dept., University of Colorado, Boulder2022 – present
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute2012 – present
Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute2006 – 2010
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7appointments
Honors
Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science, Network Science Society2016
NSF CAREER Award2015
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8honors
Publications
A. Clauset, “How large should whales be?” PLOS ONE 8(1), e53967 (2013).
A. Clauset, “Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars.” Science Advances 4(2), eaao3580 (2018).
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114publications
Grants
“CAREER: Hierarchical probabilistic models for networks with rich data in scientific domains.”
PI
NSF CISE, $550,0002015 – 2020
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22grants
Advising
Postdoctoral Fellows ⋯ Undergraduate Students ⋯
51advisees
Excerpts from the CV. Margin notes: what CVParsa extracted from all 19 pages.
Each entry is classified the way a search committee would read it.
Professor, Computer Science Dept., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2022 – present
rolefacultyrankProfessortracktenure-track
Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, 2006 – 2010
rolepostdoc
A fellowship title, classified as a postdoctoral appointment.
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, 2012 – present
rolefaculty
Founder and co-CEO, Cevian Labs, Inc., 2025 – present
roleindustry
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of New Mexico, 2006
degreeresearch doctorate
B.S. Physics, Haverford College, 2001
degreeundergraduate
Advisees, by level of supervision (51)
17
7
11
14
2
doctoral
postdoctoral
master's
undergraduate
not stated
The CAREER award is recorded twice: once as an honor, once as funding.
Listed under Honors
NSF CAREER Award, 2015
Recorded as an honor
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
National Science Foundation, 2015
- Prestige
- prestigious
- Scope
- national
- Field
- open to all fields
- Career stage
- early career
- Recognizes
- research
Listed under Grants
“CAREER: Hierarchical probabilistic models …” PI, NSF CISE, $550,000
Recorded as funding
NSF research grant
NSF CISE
- Type
- research grant
- Amount
- $550,000
- Period
- 2015 to 2020
- Role
- PI
Each record is counted once, in its own section, so the honor never inflates the funding totals and the grant never inflates the honors.
Each publication is matched to its published record.
| As written on the CV | As recorded by CVParsa | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | A. Clauset, “How large should whales be?” PLOS ONE 8(1), e53967 (2013). | How Large Should Whales Be? Journal article, PLoS ONE, 2013 |
| DOI | not given | 10.1371/journal.pone.00539671 |
| Author | A. Clauset | Aaron Clauset, ORCID iD 0000-0002-3529-87461 |
| Affiliation | not given | Santa Fe Institute; University of Colorado Boulder2 |
| Impact | not given | 45 citations; field-weighted citation impact 3.93 |
1From the publisher's record of this paper.2At the time of publication, each with a standard institution identifier.3As indexed by OpenAlex.
The CV's 114 entries, sorted
83
7
16
94 publications: 83 journal articles, 7 proceedings papers, 4 book chapters
Counted separately: 16 preprints, 1 patent, 3 unclassifiable
Across the whole CV: 106 of 114 entries were matched, 99 in Crossref and 7 in other scholarly databases. The record now carries 96 DOIs that the CV never states, and it shows the owner as first author on 25 publications and last author on 38.
Grants are checked against the funder's own award record.
| As written on the CV | As recorded by CVParsa | |
|---|---|---|
| Award | no award number given | NSF 14527181 |
| Title | “CAREER: Hierarchical probabilistic models for networks with rich data in scientific domains.” | CAREER: Hierarchical Probabilistic Models for Networks with Rich Data in Scientific Domains |
| Amount, period | NSF CISE, $550,000, 2015 – 2020 | $550,000, 2015 to 2020 |
| Role | PI | PI2 |
| Award | no award number given | NSF 20221381 |
| Title | “NRT: Integrated Data Science (Int dS): Teams for Advancing Bioscience Discovery.” | NRT-HDR: Integrated Data Science (Int dS): Teams for Advancing Bioscience Discovery3 |
| Amount, period | NSF DGE, $3,000,000, 2020 – 2025 | $3,000,000, 2020 to 20264 |
| Role | co-PI, with … | co-PI2 |
1From the NSF award record; not on the CV.2Named on the NSF award record.3NSF's title for the award.4End year per NSF.
Across the whole CV: 22 grants listed. 13 come from funders with public award databases, 10 of those were confirmed in NSF and NIH records, and the CV owner's role was confirmed on 9.
Recognizing a prize and confirming who received it are separate checks.
Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science, Network Science Society, 2016
1 Recognized
Matched in the Cevian Labs Academic Honors Registry: more than 9,000 academic honors from over 4,000 conferring organizations.
Erdős-Rényi Prize
Network Science Society
- Type
- prize
- Prestige
- prestigious
- Scope
- international
- Field
- subfield
- Career stage
- early career
2 Received
Checked separately, against an independent biographical record.
Receipt confirmed
Across this CV, 7 of 8 honors were recognized and 1 receipt was independently confirmed. An unconfirmed receipt is not a negative finding; it means no public record lists it yet.
Reading a CV is the part ChatGPT and Claude already do well.
| General-purpose chatbot (ChatGPT, Claude) | CVParsa | |
|---|---|---|
| Read one CV and summarize it | Does this well | Does this well |
| Apply the same fields and vocabulary to every CV in a pool of hundreds | Output varies between runs | One schema, fixed academic vocabularies |
| Know that a fellowship title can be a postdoc, and that a CAREER award is both an honor and a grant | Inconsistently | Applied the same way to every CV |
| Count publications | Depends on how the question is asked | 114 items listed, 94 counted as publications; preprints and patents kept separate |
| Confirm each record against Crossref, NSF, NIH, and Cevian Labs databases | Not systematically, and prone to inventing citations it cannot find | Every record states which authority confirmed it, or that none did |
| Handle confidential applicant files | Consumer accounts raise data-governance questions | Encrypted, never used to train AI models, originals deleted within 30 days |
What the public record confirms for this CV.
| Listed | Confirmed | Confirmed against | Not confirmed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publications | 114 | 106 | Crossref and other scholarly databases | 8, kept as listed |
| Grants | 22 | 10 | NSF and NIH award recordsowner's role confirmed on 9 | 12, kept as listed |
| Honors | 8 | 7 | Cevian Labs Academic Honors Registryreceipt independently confirmed on 1 | 1, not in the registry |
Example: A. Clauset, “How large should whales be?” PLOS ONE (2013) was matched in Crossref, which supplied its DOI, 10.1371/journal.pone.0053967. The CV gives none.
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