Brian Uzzi Bio
Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also co-directs the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), the Ryan Institute on Complexity (RIC), and holds professorships in sociology at Northwestern’s Weinberg College and in industrial engineering and management sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering.
Brian's research uses social network science and computational methods to explain outstanding human achievement, focusing on the role of AI in mind and machine partnerships. Brian has been awarded over 30 teaching and research prizes worldwide in social, physical, and computer sciences, he is a Network Science Society Fellow, a recipient of the Euler Award, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has been on or visited the faculties of Harvard, INSEAD, University of Chicago, and Berkeley and his widely cited research has been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other agencies and foundations. He consults for companies and governments worldwide.
Before entering science, Brian worked as a carpenter and a musician. He holds an MS in social psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in sociology from The State University of New York at Stony Brook.