Brian Uzzi Research Lab

Professor Uzzi is the Co-Director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) and the Ryan Institute on Complexity. NICO faculty are distinguished researchers from across Northwestern University, including the Kellogg School of Management, the McCormick School of Engineering, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Communication, and the Feinberg School of Medicine. NICO's mission is to incubate innovative collaborations that leverage complexity, networks, and data science to address societal challenges.

Typical NICO research and consulting projects that Uzzi lab is involved in include: 

• data science
• computational social science
• AI, machine learning, and natural language processing
• science of science
• social networks
• linguistic analysis of e-communication data
• collective and group decision-making

Current Lab Members:

Research Professors:

• Tara Sowrirajan - Kellogg School of Management, NICO
• Sophie Qiu - Kellogg School of Management, NICO

Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Moh Hosseinioun - Kellogg School of Management, NICO
• Evey Huang- Kellogg School of Management, NICO
• Zhu (Ellen) Wang - Kellogg School of Management, NICO

PhD Students:

• Binglu Wang - Kellogg School of Management, NICO

Please visit the NICO Researchers in Residence page for more information, or the Alumni page for information on past lab members.