# jemdoc: menu{MENU}{index.html}, showsource = \nYian Yin's homepage\n #[http://yianyin.net/ Yian Yin] ([yianyin@hotmail.com]) ~~~ {}{img_left}{profile.png}{185}{185} *{{}} Yian Yin {{}} *\n \n Graduate Research Assistant\n Center for Science of Science and Innovation\n Northwestern University\n Evanston, IL 60208\n \n Website: [https://yianyin.net www.yianyin.net]\n Email: [yianyin@u.northwestern.edu]\n ~~~ == About me I am Yian Yin, a PhD candidate of [https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/industrial/ Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences (IEMS)] at Northwestern University. I am also a researcher in residence at [https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/science-of-science.aspx Kellogg Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI)] and [https://www.nico.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)], where I am fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Dashun Wang and Prof. Noshir Contractor. I study computational social science, complex systems and data science, focusing on using interdisciplinary approaches to understand science and technology. My research has been published in general audience journals including /Science/, /Nature/, /Nature Reviews Physics/ and /Nature Human Behaviour/ and featured in many media outlets such as /Forbes/, /Scientific American/, /Washington Post/, /The Atlantic/, /Harvard Business Review/ and /MIT Technology Review/. Before joining Northwestern, I got my Bachelor degrees in Statistics and Economics from Peking University in 2016. #I am a fourth-year PhD candidate of [https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/industrial/ Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences (IEMS)] at McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University. I am also a researcher in residence at [https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/science-of-science.aspx Center for Science of Science and Innovation] and [https://www.nico.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)], where I am fortunate to be advised by [https://www.dashunwang.com/ Prof. Dashun Wang] from [https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/ Kellogg School of Management]. #My research takes a multidisciplinary approach -- combining my background in mathematics, computer science and economics -- to exploit the opportunities and promises offered by Big Data. Through the lens of new and increasingly available large-scale datasets, I hope to use and develop tools of network science to help improve the way in which we understand the interconnectedness of the social technical and business world around us. My current work focuses on quantitative understanding of successes and failures in individual career from large-scale datasets. == News - 05\/2021 Our latest working paper: /Science as a Public Good: Public Use and Funding of Science/. [https://www.nber.org/papers/w28748 \[NBER:w28748\]] [https://ssrn.com/abstract=3837737 \[SSRN\]] - 04\/2021 Talk at [https://metrics.stanford.edu/ Meta-research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)] Seminar. - 01\/2021 I'm organizing [https://sicss.io/2021/chicago/ Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Chicago] this year. Feel free to contact me with any questions. - 01\/2021 New paper published on */Science/*. [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6525/128 \[Paper\]] [https://kellogg-cssi.github.io/covid_policy_science/ \[Project page\]]\n - 12\/2020 Honored to be selected as a *Data Science Rising Star* (Spotlight Speaker) by [https://cdac.uchicago.edu UChicago CDAC]. - 09\/2020 Invited webinar at [http://mlcollective.org/ ML Collective]. - 09\/2020 Oral presentation at [http://www.onurvarol.com/netsci20-qs7/ Quantify Success 2020]. - 09\/2020 Grateful to receive a conference scholarship from NetSci 2020. - 07\/2020 Oral presentation at [http://2020.ic2s2.org/ IC2S2 2020]. - 07\/2020 New paper published on */Nature Human Behaviour.*/ [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0921-y \[Paper\]] [https://kellogg-cssi.github.io/covid_survey/ \[Project page\]] - 04\/2020 New paper published on /Journal of the Royal Society Interface/. [https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsif.2020.0135?af=R \[Paper\]] - 02\/2020 Invited talk at [http://www.data-science-nights.org Northwestern Data Science Night]. - 02\/2020 Passed my PhD dissertation proposal: /Success and failure in science/.\n Committee: [https://www.dashunwang.com/ Dashun Wang], [https://sonic.northwestern.edu/people/noshir-contractor/ Noshir Contractor], [http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/ Jorge Nocedal] - 11\/2019 Invited talk at [https://midas.umich.edu/2019-symposium/ 2019 Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Symposium]. - 10\/2019 New paper published on */Nature/*. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1725-y \[Paper\]] [https://www.yianyin.net/quantifyFailure/ \[Project page\]] - 09/2019 Invited talk at [https://iris.isr.umich.edu/iris-summit/ Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) Summit]. - 09/2019 Invited talk at Great Lake Data Science Workshop. - 07/2019 Oral presentation at [http://2019.ic2s2.org/ IC2S2 2019]. # - 05/2019 Oral presentation at [http://netsci2019.net/ NetSci 2019]. # - *04\/2019 New paper published on /Scientific Data/ and /Nature Reviews Physics/. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0033-6 \[SD\]] [https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-019-0057-z \[NRP\]] [https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/6NJ5RN \[Dataset\]]* # - 12/2018 Excited to visit Center for Neuroscience, Zhejiang University . # - 10/2018 Visiting Microsoft Research (Redmond) Microsoft Academic Graph group for four weeks. # - 07/2018 Oral presentation at [https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/ic2s2/2018.aspx/ 4th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)]. # - *07/2018 Grateful to get a SICSS collaborative research grant with [http://www.igorzakhlebin.com/ Igor Zakhlebin # ] and [http://kyosuketanaka.com/ Kyosuke Tanaka].* # - 06/2018 Excited to attend [https://compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institute/2018/chicago/ Summer Institute in Computation Social Science (Chicago)]. # - 04/2018 Research talk at IEMS-OM collaborative seminar. # - 04/2018 Lightning and research talks at [https://www.it.northwestern.edu/research/campus-events/research-day/agenda.html Northwestern Computational Research Day 2018]. # - 11/2017 Seminar presentation at SIAM Northwestern Bridging the Gap Symposium 2017. # - 08/2017 Conference presentation at [http://www.nupf.org/symposium/ NUPF Current Research and Future Careers Symposium (2017)]. # - 07/2017 Invited talk at [https://computational-communication.com/conference/ AI & Public Policy Workshop]. # - 07/2017 Excited to be attending [http://wiki.swarma.net/index.php/2017年集智俱乐部研读营 Summer Institute on Networks, Geometry and Machine Learning]. # - 05/2017 Seminar talk at Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) seminar. # - 05/2017 Lightning talk at Management and Organizations Department (MORS) macro brown bag seminar. # - 05\/2017 New paper published on /Journal of Informetrics/. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157717300020 \[Paper\]] # - *04/2017 Honored to receive a scholarship from [https://www.networkscienceinstitute.org/syns Society of Young Network Scientists (SYNS)].* # - 04/2017 Conference presentation at [http://k-bss.weebly.com/ Kellogg-Booth Student Symposium 2017]. # - 04/2017 Conference presentation at [https://sites.google.com/a/uic.edu/chicago-area-siam-student-conference-2017/home Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference 2017]. # - 03/2017 Poster accepted by [http://netsci2017.net/ NetSci 2017]. # - 09/2016 Excited to join Northwestern University as a graduate student of IEMS. # - 07/2015 Excited to visit College of IST at Pennsylvania State University for three months.