Dashun Wang co-founded the Ryan Institute on Complexity.[2][3][4] Wang is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award (2016)[5] and was named one of Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors (2019).[6]
In 2007, Wang earned an undergraduate degree in Physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He then earned both a M.Sc and a PhD in physics from Northeastern University. From January 2015 to July 2016, he was an assistant professor of College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is currently a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering, at Northwestern University.[7]
Wang's research also span across the fields of Computational Social Science, Network Science, Big Data, and Complex Systems.[7] His most cited work, titled "Human mobility, social ties, and link prediction", investigates the correlation between mobility patterns and social proximity, and illustrates the power of mobility patterns in predicting formation of new social connections.[8][9] Another representative work of Wang, under the title of "Quantifying long-term scientific impact", centers around citation dynamics of individual papers.[8][10] In collaboration with Chaoming Song and Albert-László Barabási, Wang detects a universal temporal pattern of papers and this observed pattern facilitates a better understanding on the underlying processes of scientific impact and provides a reliable citation-based measure of influence.[10]
In 2014, Wang received the Invention Achievement Award from IBM Research. In 2016, Wang was a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award.[5] In 2018, he received an award from the Minerva Research Initiative, a research program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.[14][15] In 2019, his paper about the impact of the size of scientific teams was one of Altmetric’s Top 100 most discussed papers across all sciences,[16] and he was named one of Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors.[6] In 2021, he was awarded the Erdős–Rényi Prize.[17]
^Bleizeffer, Kristy (September 6, 2023). “$25 Million Gift Funds Kellogg’s First-Of-Its-Kind Research Institute For Complex Problems.” Poets & Quants. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
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