Dashun Wang

Dashun Wang is the Kellogg Chair of Technology and a Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, and the McCormick School of Engineering, at Northwestern University. At Kellogg, he is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Innovation Institute, Founding Co-Director of the Ryan Institute on Complexity and the Founding Director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI). He is also a core faculty member at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). Dashun is a recipient of multiple awards for his research and teaching, including the AFOSR Young Investigator award, Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors, Junior Scientific Award from the Complex Systems Society, Erdos-Renyi Prize, Thinkers50 Radar 2021, and more.

At CSSI, Prof. Dashun Wang leads a group of highly interdisciplinary researchers who are extremely passionate about data. His current research focus is the Science of Science, a quest to turn scientific methods and curiosities upon science itself. He uses and develops tools from complexity sciences and artificial intelligence to broadly explore the opportunities and promises offered by the recent data explosion in science. His research has been published in journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Physics, Nature Reviews Physics, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and more. It has been featured in virtually all major global media outlets, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Today Show, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, World Economic Forum, Forbes, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among others. Check out his first book: The Science of Science.