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Faculty & Contributors
A Community of Thought Leaders
CSSI is proud to bring together so many top experts in the fields of complex sciences. The core of our team is made up of professors, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows at the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University, but our community of collaborators spans the globe. Here’s a look at the team behind the science of science, as well as key contributors and supporters.
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The Center is an extraordinary investment, bringing together world-leading researchers to decode innovation and the progress of knowledge.
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Researcher Network
Pierre Azoulay
Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Albert Laszlo-Barabisi
Robert Gray Doge Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University
Nicola Bianchi
Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Jillian Chown
Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Jeanneate Colvyas
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Associate Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Associate Professor of Management & Operations, Kellogg School of Management (Courtesy)
Noshir Contractor
Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Kellogg School of Management and McCormick School of Engineering
Leslie Dechurch
Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern School of Communication
Ying Ding
Bill & Luis Suit Professor, School of Information
Adjunct Professor at Department of Health, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
Eli Finkel
Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management / Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Steve Franconeri
Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences / Professor of Design, McCormick School of Engineering (Courtesy) / Director, Northwestern Cognitive Science Program, Professor of Leadership, Kellogg School of Management (Courtesy)
C. Lee Giles
David Reese Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
Jason Hartline
Associate Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
Danqi Hu
Assistant Professor of Accounting Information & Management, Kellogg School of Management
Nour Kteily
Associate Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Vincent Lariviere
Professor of Information Science, University of Montreal
Han Liu
Associate Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
Robert McDonald
Professor of Finance and Gaylord Freeman Distinguished Chair in Banking, Kellogg School of Management
Filippo Mezzanotti
Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management
Sam Molyneux
GM, Meta, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
William Ocasio
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Adam Pah
Clinical Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Associate Director, Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management
Hatim Rahman
Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Iyad Rahwan
Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Luis Rayo
Erwin P. Nemmers Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
Lauren Rivera
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Associate Professor of Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (Courtesy)
Nicole Stephens
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Associate Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (Courtesy)
Robert Sinatra
Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
Edward (Ned) Smith
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg, Associate Professor of Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (Courtesy)
H. Eugene Stanley
Professor of Physics, Boston University
Jie Tang
Professor, Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Lav Varshney
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
Ludo Waltman
Professor of Quantitative Science Studies, Leiden University
Kuansan Wang
Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach
Adam Waytz
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Jevin West
Associate Professor, University of Washington
Teresa K. Woodruff
Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Hyejin Youn
Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Researchers
Mohammad Ahmadpoor
Research Associate, Kellogg School of Management
Nima Dehmamy
Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Jian Gao
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Zhongyang He
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Ching Jin
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Woo Seong Jo
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Hyunuk Kim
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Suman Kalyan Maity
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Jichao Li
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Lu Liu
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Yifing Ma
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Minsu Park
Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Thomas Stoeger
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Yuan (Tanya) Tian
PhD student, Kellogg School of Management
Frank van der Wouden
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Binglu Wang
PhD Student, Kellogg School of Management
David Wang
PhD student, Kellogg School of Management
Yang Wang
Visiting Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Yang Yang
Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Yi Bu
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Yian Yin
PhD student, McCormick School of Engineering
Staff
Krisztina Eleki
Assistant Director of Administration, Center for Science of Science & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management
Alanna Lazarowich
Senior Director, Scientific Partnerships, Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI)/Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Dashun Wang, Director
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations / Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences (Courtesy) / Core faculty at Northwestern Institute of Complex Systems (NICO)
Professor Wang’s research focuses on the science of science. He joined the faculty at Kellogg in 2016 after teaching at Pennsylvania State University and leading a big data initiative at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He also holds appointments at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science and NICO.
Luis Amaral
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering / Professor of Physics & Astronomy / Co-Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) Faculty
Professor Amaral conducts and directs research that provides insight into the emergence, evolution and stability of complex social and biological systems. He holds appointments at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science and the Feinberg School of Medicine.
James Evans
Professor / Director, Knowledge Lab / Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science, University of Chicago
Professor Evans’s research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing. At the University of Chicago, he is Director of Knowledge Lab, which has collaborative, granting and employment opportunities. Evans also founded and now directs on the Computational Social Science program at Chicago, and sponsors an associated Computational Social Science workshop.
Santo Fortunato
Professor / Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University
Professor Fortunato’s research areas are network science and computational social science, and aims to detect community structures in networks, analyze and model social and information networks, identify citation patterns, and more. Fortunato joined the faculty at Indiana University in 2016.
Benjamin Jones
Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship / Professor of Strategy / Faculty Director, Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (KIEI)
Professor Jones is faculty director of the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, which equips leaders to drive the kind of innovation, entrepreneurship and growth that matters in today’s world. His research focuses on innovation and creativity, and he has done work on global economic development, including the roles of education, climate and national leadership in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations.
Brian Uzzi
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change / Co-Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) Faculty / Director, Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative (KACI)
Professor Uzzi is a globally recognized teacher, consultant and speaker on leadership, social networks, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has lectured and advised companies and governments around the world and has been on or visited the faculties of INSEAD, University of Chicago, University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University.
