Dr. Jian Gao is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. He is also a researcher in residence at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). He is now primarily working with Prof. Dashun Wang at Kellogg CSSI. Between 2016 and 2017, he is one-year visiting Ph.D. student in the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab, hosted by Prof. César A. Hidalgo. Before joining Kellogg, he received his PhD in computer science and engineering from UESTC in 2019, advised by Prof. Tao Zhou.
He is exploring interdisciplinary fields of the Science of Science and Computational Socioeconomics, with a primary interest in understanding complex social and economic systems. His works have been published in general audience and field journals including Science, Nature, Physics Reports, Nature Communications, Regional Studies, etc.
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (advisor Prof. Tao Zhou)
Visiting Student in Media Arts & Sciences, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab (advisor Prof. César A. Hidalgo)
Master Student in Computer Science, 2014
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (advisor Prof. Tao Zhou)
B.Sc. in Information & Computing Science, 2012
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China