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.
The Center is an extraordinary investment, bringing together world-leading researchers to decode innovation and the progress of knowledge.
Leadership network
Researchers
Core administration team
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Seokkyun Woo
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '22-23
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
Taegyoon Kim
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '22-23
Current: Assistant Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Wenyuan Liu
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '22-23
Yi Bu
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '19-20
Nima Dehmamy
Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, '19-22
Diego Gómez-Zará
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '21-22
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Woo Seong Jo
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '19-20
Zihang Lin
Visiting Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management '21-22
Lu Liu
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '17-21
Zifang Liu
Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management '21-22
Suman Kalyan Maity
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '18-21
Minsu Park
Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '19-20
Yang Wang
Visiting Professor, Kellogg School of Management, '18
Zhengyu Eddie Yang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '24-25
Current: Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Akhil Akella
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '24-25
Yifang Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '23-25
Current: Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Diana Amirbekova
Visiting Scholar, Kellogg School of Management
Current: Associate Professor, Kazakh British Technical University, Business School
Yian Yin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, '20-22
Current: Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Jian Gao
Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Current: Assistant Professor, Norte Dame University
Bernard Koch
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, 22-24
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Basil Mahfouz
Visiting Scholar, Kellogg School of Management
Current: PhD candidate, College of London
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Xinru Wang
Graduate Research Assistant, McCormick School of Engineering
Zelin Li
Graduate Research Assistant, McCormick School of Engineering
Weihao He
Graduate Research Assistant, McCormick School of Engineering
Yujia Eugenia Cao
Undergraduate Research Assistant, McCormick School of Engineering
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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
Associate 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 AustinEli 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
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
James F. Towey Professor of Business and Leadership and Director, Illinois Strategic Organization Initiative
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)Roberta Sinatra
Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
H. Eugene Stanley
Professor of Physics, Boston University
Jie Tang
Professor, Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Lav Varshney
Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Ludo Waltman
Professor of Quantitative Science Studies, Leiden University
Kuansan Wang
Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach
Adam Waytz
Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Jevin West
Associate Professor, University of Washington
Teresa K. Woodruff
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Michigan State University
Hyejin Youn
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management