Dashun Wang Explained

Dashun Wang
Alma Mater:Northeastern University
Fudan University
Doctoral Advisor:Albert-László Barabási
Website:https://www.dashunwang.com/
Field:Physics, Science of Science, Computational Social Science, Network Science, Big Data, Complex Systems
Prizes:Erdős–Rényi Prize in Network Science[1]
Work Institutions:Northwestern University
Pennsylvania State University
Northeastern University

Dashun Wang is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering, at Northwestern University. In 2019, he became the Founding Director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI).[2] He is also a core faculty member at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) and an adjunct professor of Department of Physics, at Northeastern University. In 2023, he co-founded the Ryan Institute on Complexity.[3] [4] [5] Wang is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award (2016)[6] and was named one of Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors (2019).[7]

Career

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.[8]

Research

Wang'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,[9] The Atlantic,[10] etc.

Wang'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.[11] [12] Another representative work of Wang, under the title of "Quantifying long-term scientific impact", centers around citation dynamics of individual papers.[13] 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.

Wang's most recent work quantitatively analyzes global policy responses towards the COVID-19 pandemic.[14] [15] [16]

Awards and honors

In 2014, Wang received the Invention Achievement Award from IBM Research. In 2016, Wang was a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award. In 2018, he received an award from the Minerva Research Initiative, a research program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.[17] [18] 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,[19] and he was named one of Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors. In 2021, he was awarded the Erdős–Rényi Prize.[20]

Selected publications

Books

Articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Erdős–Rényi prize. Network Science Society. 15 September 2021.
  2. Web site: Ruppenthal . Alex . September 24, 2019 . Northwestern Launches Hub to Boost Science via Artificial Intelligence . February 29, 2024 . WTTW.
  3. Web site: FORE . PRESTON . September 11, 2023 . Northwestern’s Kellogg school is establishing a new $25 million institute for studying complexity science. Here’s what you need to know . 2024-02-29 . Fortune Education . en.
  4. 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.
  5. Web site: Channick . Robert . 2023-09-06 . Funded by the same $480 million gift as stadium proposal, Ryan Institute launches at Northwestern . 2024-05-26 . Chicago Tribune . en-US.
  6. Web site: AFOSR awards grants to 56 scientists and engineers through Young Investigator Research Pro. 2020-12-18. Air Force Materiel Command. 14 January 2016 . en-US.
  7. Web site: Allen. Nathan. 2019-04-23. Poets&Quants P&Q's 2019 Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors. 2020-12-18. Poets&Quants. en-US.
  8. Web site: Dashun Wang. 2020-12-18. Dashun Wang. en-US.
  9. News: Carey . Benedict . The New York Times. Feb 13, 2019 . Can Big Science Be Too Big?. 2020-12-18.
  10. Yong. Ed. Feb 13, 2019 . Small Teams of Scientists Have Fresher Ideas. The Atlantic. 2020-12-18.
  11. Web site: Google Scholar. 2020-12-18.
  12. Book: Wang. Dashun. Pedreschi. Dino. Song. Chaoming. Giannotti. Fosca. Barabási. Albert-László . Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining . August 21, 2011. 1100–1108 . 10.1145/2020408. 9781450308137. 2020-12-18.
  13. Wang. Dashun. Song. Chaoming. Barabási. Albert-László. Oct 4, 2013. Quantifying long-term scientific impact. Science. 342. 6154. 127–132 . 10.1126/science.1237825. 24092745. 1306.3293. 2013Sci...342..127W. 803694.
  14. Gao . Jian . Yin . Yian . Myers . Kyle R. . Lakhani . Karim R. . Wang . Dashun . 2021-10-26 . Potentially long-lasting effects of the pandemic on scientists . Nature Communications . en . 12 . 1 . 6188 . 10.1038/s41467-021-26428-z . 2041-1723. 2107.13073 .
  15. Myers . Kyle R. . Tham . Wei Yang . Yin . Yian . Cohodes . Nina . Thursby . Jerry G. . Thursby . Marie C. . Schiffer . Peter . Walsh . Joseph T. . Lakhani . Karim R. . Wang . Dashun . July 2020 . Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists . Nature Human Behaviour . en . 4 . 9 . 880–883 . 10.1038/s41562-020-0921-y . 2397-3374. free .
  16. Yin . Yian . Gao . Jian . Jones . Benjamin F. . Wang . Dashun . 2021-01-08 . Coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic . Science . en . 371 . 6525 . 128–130 . 10.1126/science.abe3084 . 0036-8075.
  17. Web site: Dynamics, Predictability, and Uncertainty of Scientific Discovery and Advance > Minerva Research Initiative > Awarded Projects . 2020-12-18 . minerva.defense.gov.
  18. Web site: Park . Andrea . 2019-09-25 . New Northwestern center will study the science of scientific innovation . 2024-03-16 . . en-gb.
  19. Web site: The Altmetric Top 100 – 2019 . 2024-05-26 . Altmetric . en.
  20. Web site: Erdős–Rényi prize . 15 September 2021 . Network Science Society.

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