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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.
"Collective Intelligence as Infrastructure for Reducing Broad Global Catastrophic Risks."
Vicky Chuqiao Yang and Anders Sandberg. In Intersections, Reinforcements, Cascades: Proceedings of the 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference, Stanford, CA: September 2023. arXiv Preprint. SSRN.
"Scaling and the Universality of Function Diversity Across Human Organizations."
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Christopher P. Kempes, Hyejin Youn, Sidney Redner, and Geoffrey B. West, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6806-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2022.
"Mathematical Model Bridges Disparate Timescales of Lifelong Learning."
Lu, Mingzhen, Tyler Marghetis, and Vicky Chuqiao Yang, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6807-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2022.
"Collective Intelligence as Infrastructure for Reducing Broad Global Catastrophic Risks."
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, and Anders Sandberg, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6808-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2022.
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