Vicky Chuqiao Yang

Assistant Professor, System Dynamics; Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Assistant Professor, Management of Technological Innovation, MIT Sloan

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.