Dashun Wang

Dashun Wang is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, and (by courtesy) the McCormick School of Engineering, at Northwestern University. At Kellogg, he is the Founding Director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI). He is also a core faculty at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). Dashun received his PhD in Physics in 2013 from Northeastern University, where he was a member of the Center for Complex Network Research. From 2009 to 2013, he had also held an affiliation with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University as a Research Associate. 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, 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 on Science of Science, a quest to turn the scientific methods and curiosities upon ourselves, hoping to use and develop 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 such general audience journals 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. His first book, The Science of Science, coauthored with Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, was published in March 2021.

Education

• Ph.D, 2013, Physics, Northeastern University
• M.S., 2009, Physics, Northeastern University
• B.S., 2007, Physics, Fudan University

Academic Positions

• Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2016-present
• Associate Professor (Courtesy), Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, 2016-present
• Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, 2015-2016
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physics, Northeastern University, 2014-present
• Research Associate, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, 2009-2013

Professional Experience

• Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 2013-2014

Awards

• Thinkers50 Radar, Thinkers50
• Top 100 most-discussed papers across all sciences in 2020, Altmetrics, 2020
• Junior Scientific Award, Complex Systems Society
• World Changing Ideas Awards (honorable mention), Fast Company
• Innovations that Inspire, AACSB
• Top 100 most-discussed papers across all sciences in 2019, Altmetrics
• The 40 Best Business Professors Under 40, Poets & Quants
• Minerva Award, Department of Defense
• Young Investigator Award, AFOSR