Dashun Wang
Dashun Wang is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering, at Northwestern University since 2016. At Kellogg from 2019, 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) and an Adjunct Professor of Department of Physics, at Northeastern University. His current research focus is on Science of Science. Dashun is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award (2016) and Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors  (2019). Career. In 2007, Dashun earned an undergraduate degree in Physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. After that, he 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. Research. Dashun’s 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 in this area has received multiple media coverages and has been featured on sources including The New York Times, The Atlantic, etc. Dashun's research also span across the fields of Computational Social Science, Network Science, Big Data, and Complex Systems. 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. Another representative work of Dashun Wang, under the title of "Quantifying long-term scientific impact", centers around citation dynamics of individual papers. In collaboration with Chaoming Song and Albert-László Barabási, Dashun 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. Dashun Wang's most recent work quantitatively analyzes global policy responses towards the COVID-19 pandemic. Awards and honors. In 2014, Dashun received the Invention Achievement Award from IBM Research. In  2016, Dashun is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award. In 2019, his paper was elected as Top 100 most-discussed papers across all sciences, and he was elected be Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors, received Minerva Award from Department of Defense.