Dr. Vicky Yang

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Vicky Chuqiao Yang is an Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in the intersection of management science and technological innovation. Her research employs quantitative behavioral models and data analysis to examine collective human behavior across various organizational levels, including teams and cities. Recent areas of application in her work encompass collective intelligence, scaling laws in urban environments, and regulatory costs within organizations. Yang's research outcomes have been published in esteemed journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, and the SIAM Review, and have garnered attention from major media outlets including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. In her teaching role, she instructs the graduate-level course Introduction to System Dynamics, which focuses on systems thinking, dynamic modeling, and simulation tools relevant to business strategy and public policy issues. Prior to her faculty position at MIT, Yang obtained her PhD in engineering sciences with a focus on applied mathematics from Northwestern University, and was an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

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