CÉSAR HIDALGO is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab. Before joining MIT, Hidalgo was an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a research fellow at Harvard's Center for International Development.
Hidalgo's work focuses on improving the understanding of systems by using and developing concepts of complexity, evolution, and network science; his goal is to help improve understanding of the evolution of prosperity in order to help develop industrial policies that can help countries raise the living standards of their citizens. His areas of application include economic development, systems biology, and social systems. Hidalgo is also a graphic-art enthusiast and has published and exhibited artwork that uses data collected originally for scientific purposes.
He is the founder and driving force behind Cambridge Nights, a series of online video interviews with academics who discuss the way in which they view the world, and the author of Why Information Grows.
