Kellogg Chair of Technology at Kellogg, Founding director, Center for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Joined September 2008
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"Our study reveals an interesting aging effect that complicates the prevailing narrative of declining innovation over a scientific career."
More persistent disruptive (PD) work by senior scientists than younger counterparts
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Can’t wait to be back speaking at the APS Global Summit in 2027-- my second year in a row! Calling all physicists, aspiring or recovering alike!
Submit your abstract for the session "Statistical Physics of Networks: Theory and Applications to Complex Systems" at the Global Summit 2027 of the @APSphysics, the largest physics event on earth! The invited speaker is the great @dashunwang. DEADLINE: OCTOBER 22nd! @aps_dsnp
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"AI agents are aeroplanes for the mind: faster and more powerful than the bicycle, harder to control, costlier when they crash."
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Excited to announce that Northwestern Economics now has a seminar series on the economics of AI!
Organized jointly with the Kellogg Math Center and the Ryan Institute, it kicks off Oct 6 with a talk by Jon Kleinberg.
Full lineup below.
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Excited to share our new paper in Science: “Disorder-promoted stability.”
It shows when heterogeneity across nodes—or interactions—can make complex networks more stable, with implications for ecosystems, power grids, materials, and beyond.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Introducing: Time Machine Experiments 🚀 ⏳
in which participants 'travel' to the past, and interact with a mind from the year 1930 (simulated by an AI with knowledge cut-off).
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15468
This is an example of what we recently called "Science Fiction Science" (Sci-Fi-Sci)
Led by our @Max_Planck_CHM member @hiromu1996 @schimmelrob and Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, together with @LevinBrinkmann Alejandro H. Artiles and Jean-Francois Bonnefon @azimshariff
wow @benedictevans is on fire this week: "In other words, the common factor in all of these manifestos and tweets is that the first half always makes a bunch of terrifying assertions about the way the world is going to change, and the second half, where they propose their remedies, demonstrates that the author doesn’t understand anything about the ways the world actually changes."
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Is AI-assisted writing having an impact on research funding?
Using data from @DSDimensions, this study published in @PNASNews looks into how U.S. federal agencies are funding research in the age of LLMs.
Led by @dashunwang & @qian_yifan:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2601439…
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While #AI is increasing the quantity of studies scientists can produce, it may also be narrowing the breadth of discovery. 🕵️♂️
A new @KelloggSchool study examines how large language model use is reshaping the public funding landscape: spr.ly/6015B1qHWz
ALT Graphic that features a quote from study co-author Dashun Wang. It reads: \"Science advances by exploring ideas that don\u2019t yet look obvious. If AI increasingly learns from yesterday\u2019s successful proposals, one of the questions we should ask is whether tomorrow\u2019s scientific portfolio becomes less adventurous.\"
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The Legibility Gap: How Gender Equity Interventions Redistribute Recognition Across Cultures arxiv.org/abs/2608.20827
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Students/young researchers -
If you're interested in AI/ML applied to bibliometric and science-of-science problems, and can work for a US-based startup, I'd love to talk to you about some cool @RefineDotInk projects
Please DM me or email [email protected]
Exciting faculty opening at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, in partnership with Northwestern Innovation Institute. This candidate can be placed in any department within the Engineering school, with initial preference in IEMS or ESAM. It's open-ranked with a preference for senior candidates. I'm chairing the committee with @noshir and Danny Abrams. Please help us spread the word! and please feel free to get in touch if interested!
Matt Marx (@marxmatt), professor of entrepreneurship and innovation in the SC Johnson College of Business, is @Cornell’s new vice provost for entrepreneurship, innovation and external engagement. His appointment begins July 1. @CornellDyson news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
Exciting tenure-line hiring at @KelloggSchool!! Led by Northwestern Innovation Institute. Open to all ranks, including junior, adv junior, and senior. Can be hosted in any Kellogg dept as the tenure home. focus area: innovation / science of science / AI.
Note the timeline is different than typical b-school timelines - we will start reviewing applications by July! I'm chairing the search. Please apply soon if interested! And get in touch if you want to chat!
More info: facultyrecruiting.northweste…
Very well argued and articulate - from @pierre_azoulay in @ScienceMagazine today: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
fantastic work by an awesome group of people! bravo! check it out!!
✨New paper out @SpringerNature✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we custom-built. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional content + does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵
Wonderful new work by Eddie and team! Wow!! 🤩
