Researchers in Residence
Researchers in Residence are fellows and graduate students who are located in the NICO offices or affiliated with one of our faculty members. Please note, Visiting Scholars and Data Science Scholars are listed on those pages respectively.
Postdoctoral Fellow
McCormick School of Engineering
emailGuy Amichay is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics department (ESAM) and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), working with Professor Daniel Abrams. He is mostly interested in self-organization—how systems manage to become ordered with no obvious leader or conductor. His current work is on synchronization (coupled oscillators), focusing on different systems such as firefly swarms flashing in unison or groups of crabs waving their claws in sync. Other than that he is also working on science of science (on the formation of collaborations) and association football (soccer) collective movement analysis.
Research Assistant Professor
Kellogg School of Management
emailJian Gao is a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), working with Professor Dashun Wang. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interests lie in the science of science, computational socioeconomics, network science, and economic complexity. His recent work focuses on measuring the disparities in exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and estimating the benefits of AI in science and innovation.
Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Kellogg School of Management
emailMoh Hosseinioun is a PhD Candidate at UIC and a Research Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management and NICO, working with Professor Hyejin Youn. His research concerns the economic impacts of technological change and innovation in two directions, with a particular focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI): 1) how firms improve their performance by innovation, and 2) how technologies and human skills interact.
NICO Associate Director
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kellogg School of Management
emailQing Jin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management and NICO, and also the NICO Associate Director starting in the spring of 2023. As Associate Director, Qing curates and hosts the Wednesdays@NICO speaker series. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, Qing works with Professor Brian Uzzi. His research brings together different approaches from natural science and social science and he invents novel computational tools to understand, model, and predict social patterns.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kellogg School of Management
emailHao Peng is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management and NICO, working with Professor Brian Uzzi. He is interested in computational social science, science of science, social networks, and complex systems. His research studies the mechanisms involved in the production and dissemination of science and innovation.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kellogg School of Management
emailSophie Qiu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management and NICO, working with Professor Brian Uzzi. Her research interests include: Developers' diversity and inclusion in open-source communities, social network analysis, natural language processing, and gender representation in mass medi.
Research Assistant Professor
Kellogg School of Management
emailTara Sowrirajan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management and NICO, working with Professor Brian Uzzi. Tara works on modeling and understanding human behavior with large-scale behavioral datasets using AI, network theory, and machine learning.
Binglu Wang
Ph.D. Student
Kellogg School of Management
emailBinglu Wang is a Ph.D. student in Management & Organizations (MORS) at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, with affiliations at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). Her research involves computational social science, technology & innovation, and social networks, with a focus on understanding how community collapses from large-scale datasets. She received her bachelor's degree in information management and information system from Peking University in 2019.
PhD Candidate, IEMS
McCormick School of Engineering
emailYian Yin is a Ph.D. candidate at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, with affiliations at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). He studies computational social science, the science of science, and complex systems, with a particular interest in quantitative understanding of success and failure in human activities through interdisciplinary approaches.
