Faculty
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 is also an affiliated faculty at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Yang's research 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 application areas include collective intelligence, scaling laws in cities, and regulatory costs in organizations. Her research has been published in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, and SIAM Review. Her work has also been featured or quoted by major media outlets, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg.
Yang teaches Introduction to System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a graduate-level course that introduces system thinking, dynamic modeling, and simulation tools for business strategy and public policy problems.
Prior to joining MIT, Yang earned a PhD in engineering sciences and applied mathematics from Northwestern University and was previously an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
Featured Publication
"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.
Featured Publication
"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.
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao and Levi Grenier, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7181-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2024.
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Jacob J. Jackson, and Christopher P. Kempes. PNAS Nexus Vol. 3, No. 11 (2024). SSRN.
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao. In Urban Scaling, edited by Luca S. D'Acci, London, UK: Routledge, 2024.
Mora, Elisa Heinrich, Vicky Chuqiao Yang, and Christopher P. Kempes. In Urban Scaling, edited by Luca S. D'Acci, London, UK: Routledge, 2024.
The new faculty joining MIT Sloan in 2022 are experts in finance, system dynamics, technological innovation, and more.
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