Vicky C Yang
@VickyCYang
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Assistant Professor @MITSloan. Understanding human collectives using math & data. Former fellow at @sfiscience. Applied Math PhD. https://t.co/O876Sint75
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2010
RT @sfiscience: Mastering a skill can take decades, but the learning process unfolds across multiple timescales, from mere moments to days.….
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Excited to share our new paper in @Nature_NPJ Complexity! We propose a unified, multiscale model of skill acquisition—linking moments to decades. Ideated at the @sfiscience -@JSMF conference research jam, and years (many revisions) later, it’s finally out.
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Big thanks to Faye Flam and @Bloomberg for the thoughtful interview and excellent article on polarization.
bloomberg.com
Five years after Covid, America's greatest threat is our divided reality.
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RT @sfiscience: The Santa Fe Institute is hiring full-time resident faculty!. We’re looking for applicants with outstanding academic accomp….
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RT @dggoldst: Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher. Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD.htt….
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Thanks SFI for doing a nice re-cap of our paper!.
A significant body of research has investigated why, as city populations grow, so do violent crime, contagious diseases — and per-capita GDP. A new paper now finds that cities with strong interconnectivity show a marked economic benefit, even beyond normal scaling.
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We hope this motivates rethinking of urban scaling models to integrate global & local effects. Paper (w/ @JakeJJacksonRI & Chris Kempes) at @PNASNexus:
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Abstract. Cities exhibit consistent returns to scale in economic outputs, and urban scaling analysis is widely adopted to uncover common mechanisms in citi
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New paper on urban scaling & global connections. We show global connectivity (through multinational firms), plays a significant role in GDP. After accounting for global connectivity, effect of population is no longer distinguishable from linear.
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1.5 week left to apply for the PhD program at MIT Sloan in System Dynamics! Deadline Dec 1. More info/apply here:
mitsloan.mit.edu
Find information about how to apply to the MIT Sloan PhD Program.
PhD student opening at MIT Sloan System Dynamics! Seeking aspiring social system modelers (esp. dynamical system), wanting to take the social sciences seriously. Generous fellowship funding, free to work with me or any of our talented SD faculty.
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The structure at Sloan is different from the lab structure at most engineering schools---students are not tied to/funded by any particular faculty. So students have unparalleled freedom to choose who they want to work with and bring in their own project ideas.
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Interested students should apply directly on the Sloan link included in the 1st post (please select system dynamics). Deadline is Dec 1. Individual faculty (like myself) is not able to evaluate applications on our own.
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PhD student opening at MIT Sloan System Dynamics! Seeking aspiring social system modelers (esp. dynamical system), wanting to take the social sciences seriously. Generous fellowship funding, free to work with me or any of our talented SD faculty.
mitsloan.mit.edu
MIT Sloan PhD Program graduates lead in their fields and are teaching and producing research at the world's most prestigious universities.
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RT @hyejin_youn: 🎓 Exciting News! Our symposium, "Toward a General Theory of the Organization: From Cells to Societies," is selected as a s….
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RT @sfiscience: Now accepting applications for the 2025 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Complexity Fellows contribute to SFI’s researc….
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RT @DG_Rand: Our group at MIT is hiring an assistant professor! Come join our wonderful crew @RaBhui @deaneckles Drazen Prelec @ce_tucker @….
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RT @JisungYoon8: @IC2S2! .My coauthor, Seoul Lee presents our research on coordination mechanism in Wikipedia. We show emergence of a na….
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RT @dgzara: As #IC2S2 starts this week, we want to invite all Computational Social Scientists attending @AOMConnect to attend our PDW. We w….
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New preprint! We formulate dynamic model to understand administrative bloat. We predict threshold in management heuristics that leads to bloat. Large change (external or internal) can trigger admin bloat cycle
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RT @fernandopsantos: @UvA_IvI @ERC_Research 📢PhD Positions: Link-Recommendation Algorithms and Social Dynamics @ University of Amsterdam:….
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RT @GTCantwell: Funded PhD position on networks/mathematics of complex systems at Cambridge:.Exact topic is v. flex….
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