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9 new researchers join MIT Sloan faculty
The new faculty joining MIT Sloan in 2022 are experts in finance, system dynamics, technological innovation, and more.
Jul 6, 2022
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Vicky Chuqiao Yang
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Vicky Chuqiao Yang is the Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Assistant Professor in Management of Technological Innovation and an Assistant Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She was most recently an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Yang uses quantitative behavioral models, assisted by the analysis of data, to study collective human behavior on a broad range of organization levels, from teams to cities. Recent research topics include collective decision-making, political polarization, scaling laws in cities, and bureaucracy in human organizations.
She received a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University.
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"Dynamical-system Model Predicts when Social Learners Impair Collective Performance."Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Mirta Galesic, Harvey McGuinness, Ani Harutyunyan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 118, No. 35 (2021): e210629211.
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"Why Are U.S. Parties So Polarized? A “Satisficing” Dynamical Model."Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Daniel M. Abrams, Georgia Kernell, and Adilson E. Motter. SIAM Review Vol. 62, No. 3 (2020): 646-657.
"How Social Influence Shapes Collective Intelligence in Binary Choices: Reconciling Disparate Findings with a Mathematical Model."
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao and Levi Grenier, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7181-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2024.
"Inter-city Firm Connections and the Scaling of Urban Economic Indicators."
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Jacob J. Jackson, and Christopher P. Kempes. PNAS Nexus Vol. 3, No. 11 (2024). SSRN.
"Regulatory Functions from Cells to Society."
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Christopher P. Kempes, S. Redner, Geoffrey B. West, and Hyejin Youn, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7179-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2024. arXiv Preprint.
"What Leads to Administrative Bloat? Modeling the Dynamics of Administrative Cost and Waste."
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao and Levi Grenier, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7180-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2024.
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