Recently Published Research:
- Ottino, Julio M and Brian Uzzi. "Progression without progress". Science, May 21, 2026
- Diego.F.M. Oliveira, Qian Huang, Terasa K. Woodruff, & Brian Uzzi "How the 2025 NIH grant terminations varied by researchers’ demographic groups", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (13) e2527755123 (2026).
- Brian Uzzi "AI can spark creativity — if we ask it how, not what, to think" Nature, January 13, 2026
Recent Media Hits:
WSJ: The Myth of the Lone Inventor Is Largely Just That—a Myth (April 2026)
ScienceAdviser: The uneven toll of NIH grant cuts (March 2026)
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.