Recently Published Research:
- Brian Uzzi "AI can spark creativity — if we ask it how, not what, to think" Nature, January 13, 2026
- Dawei Wang, Difang Huang, Haipeng Shen, Brian Uzzi “A Large-Scale Comparison of The Divergent Thinking Ability in Humans and Large Language Models”, Nature Human Behavior, December 2025
Recent Media Hits:
Kellogg Insight: When It Comes to Creativity, AI Doesn’t Always Have the Answer (January 2026)
Northwestern Engineering News: Uzzi Among Nine Northwestern Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (May 2025)
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.