Hyejin Youn
External Fellow
I am an assistant professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). I was a research fellow at Santa Fe Institute and Harvard Kennedy School, and visiting scientist at MIT Media Lab. Before that, I was a senior research fellow at Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford, and Institute for New Economic Thinking; and ran a National Science Foundation grant (USA) to study Technological Change. PhD is in Physics at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
My research aims to develop a mathematical and computational framework to understand complex systems, mostly socio-economic systems. These include science of cities, technological change, and semantic cognition. Details can be found: http://hyoun.me/
Papers
- Dynamic burstiness of word-occurrence and network modularity in textbook systems, Physica A 487:103-110 [link]
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S0378437117306416 - the ecological and evolutionary energetics of hunter-gatherer residential mobility, Evolutionary Anthropology 25:124–132
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.21485/ full - Our paper, Technological novelty profile and invention’s future impact, appears in EPJ Data Science2016 5:8
https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10. 1140/epjds/s13688-016-0069-1 - Scaling and universality in urban economic diversification, Journal of The Royal Society Interface 13:20150937
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/ content/13/114/20150937 - On the universal structure of human lexical semantics, appears in Proc Natl Acad Sci
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/25/1520752113. abstract?sid=2bd755b1-ac78- 4b40-a4b7-79d7717b5fd1 - Invention as a combinatorial process: Evidence from U.S. Patents appears in Royal Soc. Interface 12 106
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/ content/12/106/20150272?ijkey= K8qE8BisaFPEl4z&keytype=ref