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.
Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Nima Dehmamy is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI), the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Boston University and was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Barabasi Lab at Northeastern University. His work focuses on using artificial intelligence, network science, and physics-based modeling to understand growth and development in science and art. He works on developing graph neural networks and embedding methods for analysis of large-scale scientific publications as well as other social science data.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Alexander C. Furnas PhD (Zander), is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. He researches the political economy of information, with a focus on the production, dissemination and uptake of science and expertise in the policymaking process. His dissertation examines how congressional staffers evaluate and use privately provisioned information produced by outside organizations. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others. More generally, he studies the use of information, science, and expertise in policymaking, interest groups, and elite political behavior using survey, text analysis and network methods.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Jian Gao is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) at the Kellogg School of Management and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) at Northwestern University. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interests lie in the science of science, computational socioeconomics, network science, and economic complexity. His recent work focuses on measuring the disparities in exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and estimating the benefits of AI in science and innovation.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Diego Gómez-Zará is a Ph.D. in Technology and Social Behavior at Northwestern University. He also graduated with a Ms. in Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research interests are computational behavior modeling, social networks, groups, and systems. Grounded in human-computer interaction and network science, Diego studies how people assemble groups using online systems. Diego’s work has been published in multiple venues, including the ACM CHI and CSCW conferences. His dissertation research was awarded the 2020 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant and the National Science Foundation SES-2021117. In 2018, he became a Ph.D. fellow of the Northwestern Segal Institute’s Design Cluster. In the past, he has taught courses on web technologies and social networks. Recently, Diego was an intern at the Snap Inc. Research Team. He is currently serving as a member of the ACM CSCW Steering committee.
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Lu Liu is a Ph.D. student at the College of Information Science and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are computational social science, science of science, data mining, and machine learning. She is particularly interested in understanding and quantifying the career trajectory of scientists and professionals from other domains. She received her B.S. and M.S. degree in physics from Fudan University in 2012 and 2015, respectively.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Suman Kalyan Maity is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI), the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India. He was a recipient of the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship and Microsoft Research India Ph.D. Fellowship Award. His research interest lies in the areas of data science, computational social science, machine learning and computational linguistics. Currently, he is also interested in understanding science of success and failure.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Yifan Qian is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K. His research interest is broadly concerned with computational social science and combines theories and methods from network science, sociology, machine learning, and data science. The general goal of his work is to better understand the structure, functioning, and consequences of complex large-scale networks across a number of empirical domains including citation networks, social networks, and collaboration networks. He received a B.Sc. degree in information and computing science and a M.Sc. degree in computer science from Beihang University in Beijing, China in 2014 and 2017, respectively.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Kariyushi Rao is is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Her research interests are related to pathologies that arise under suboptimal performance management systems, and include: performance appraisal elicitation and accuracy, collective responses to resource shocks, and the behavioral consequences of common incentive structures. Kariyushi also applies her experience in social network analysis as a consultant to global firms on the development and management of intra- and inter-firm social capital. Kariyushi’s academic career was preceded by nearly a decade of professional experience in high tech, during which time she also completed masters degrees in computer science (University of Chicago, 2016) and business administration (University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2012), as well as her SCPM credential (Stanford Advanced Project Management Program, 2009).
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Binglu Wang is a Ph.D. student in Management & Organizations (MORS) at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, with affiliations at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). Her research involves computational social science, technology & innovation, and social networks, with a focus on understanding how community collapses from large-scale datasets. She received her bachelor's degree in information management and information system from Peking University in 2019.
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, McCormick School of Engineering
Yian Yin is a Ph.D. candidate of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences (IEMS) at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, with affiliations at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). He studies computational social science, the science of science, and complex systems, with a particular interest in quantitative understanding of success and failure in human activities through interdisciplinary approaches. Before joining Northwestern, Yian obtained his bachelor’s degree in statistics and economics from Peking University in 2016.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management
Visiting Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Gray Doge Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University
Assistant Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Northwestern University
Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Kellogg School of Management and McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication, Northwestern University
Bill & Luis Suit Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management and Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
David Reese Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor of Accounting Information & Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Associate Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Professor of Information Science, University of Montreal
Associate Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
Professor of Finance and Gaylord Freeman Distinguished Chair in Banking, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
GM, Meta, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
James F. Towey Professor of Business, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois
Clinical Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Erwin P. Nemmers Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Professor of Physics, Boston University
Professor, Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Assistant Professor, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois
Professor of Quantitative Science Studies, Leiden University
Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Associate Professor, Information School, University of Washington
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michigan State University
Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Assistant Director of Administration, Center for Science of Science & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management
Senior Director, Scientific Partnerships, Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI)/Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)