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Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.  He also co-directs the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and holds professorships in Sociology and at the McCormick School of Engineering.  He has been on or visited the faculties of INSEAD, Chicago, Harvard, and Berkeley.  His work has received over 30 teaching and scientific research prizes worldwide in the social, managerial, ecological, and computer sciences. 
His research uses social network science and AI to explain outstanding human achievement.  His research appears in scientific journals in management, physics, ecology, sociology, medicine, economics, psychology, and computer science and is frequently featured by social and mainstream media outlets.  Grants for his research have come from the U.S. government and private agencies.  He is a Fellow of the Network Science Society.

A globally recognized scientist, teacher, and speaker on leadership, social networks, and AI, Brian consults for organizations and governments in over 30 countries, including the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), McKinsey, PWC, KPMG, Deloitte, Baker and McKenzie, Pepsico, P&G, Kraft, Abbott Labs, UNITE, Total Quality Schools, Hearst Media, the World Bank, ABN AMBRO, CreditSuisse, AON, U.S. intelligence agencies, Thomson Reuters, BAE, Google, MicroSoft, Intel, Genentech, and non-profits worldwide.
Before Kellogg, Brian worked as a management consultant, carpenter, and musician. He holds an MS is in social psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in sociology from The State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the ARL Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, in 1976. Dr. Szymanski published over four hundred scientific articles. He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Science in Poland, an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and Association for Computing Machinery for which he was National Lecturer. He received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award in 2003 and the Wilkes Medal of British Computer Society in 2009. His research interests cover the broad area of network science with current focus on social and computer networks.

Yun Chung is an Associate Professor at the University of Idaho College of Business and Economics. Her research focuses on workplace diversity and faultlines, social networks, strategic human resource management, and retirement security. She has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Small Group Research, and Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management among others. She has served as a member of the editorial board of Small Group Research.