Affiliated Centers and Institutes
NICO collaborates closely with many other centers and institutes across Northwestern. Please reach out to us at nico@northwestern.edu to add your center here.
Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI)
The Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI) is the first center world-wide dedicated to the field of the science of science. The center builds on Kellogg’s long-standing tradition of excellence in this field and helps bring together faculty and students across Kellogg and Northwestern to further and cement our global thought leadership position in the field. A multidisciplinary community by nature, CSSI also serves as the nexus to bring together thought leaders in closely related fields such as computational social science, network science and artificial intelligence.
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Center for Computational & Social Sciences in Health (COMPASS)
The Center for Computational & Social Sciences in Health (COMPASS) aims to foster connection between data science, social science and population health. These connections will increase the capacity for cutting-edge research that uses social and behavioral science and computational methodology to understand and enable the health of populations.
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Lab on Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge (LINK)
The Lab on Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge (LINK) strives to understand and improve group behavior in networks in digital spaces. Using approaches from human-centered computing, social network theory, applied machine learning, AI, and computational social science, we explore ideas around collective intelligence, creation and diffusion of knowledge, social biases, and the dynamics of communication and innovation.
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The NetLogo Center
The NetLogo Center at Northwestern University is guided by a vision of modeling literacy for all. The Center's mission is to empower students, educators, researchers, and policymakers to make sense of our complex world through computational modeling. NetLogo is the world's most widely used agent-based modeling platform, designed with a "low threshold, high ceiling" philosophy. This means elementary school students can learn to create their first models, while the same platform powers cutting-edge research. NetLogo has been used in over 10,000 scientific publications and is used in thousands of classrooms around the globe.
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Northwestern Innovation Institute
The NI Institute pioneers a transformative approach to innovation intelligence by harnessing big data analytics and AI to comprehensively map innovation across scientific, technological, and business domains. While innovation is one of humanity's most powerful forces, its underlying mechanisms remain elusive. The Institute uses rigorous quantitative methods to study the patterns that drive discovery, combining advanced computational approaches grounded in physical sciences with cross-disciplinary insights to develop new frameworks that could help accelerate scientific progress and enhance research impact.
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Ryan Institute on Complexity
The Ryan Institute on Complexity is a revolutionary research center designed to change the way business, markets and societal issues are studied, combining multidisciplinary talents and quantitative sciences in new ways to tackle bigger problems faster. In a world of increasingly dizzying interconnectedness and network interdependence, an understanding of what happens at the nexus between entities will transform the thinking and practice of how humanity solves its grandest challenges.
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The Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC)
The Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) research group advances social network theories, methods, and tools to better understand and meet the needs of diverse communities. SONIC develops cutting-edge techniques to study and improve social and knowledge networks in distributed working groups, online communities, virtual teams, and other large communities. Using a comprehensive methodology, SONIC researchers model, assess, validate, and enable the emergence of social and knowledge networks.
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