Cesar Hidalgo is a Chilean Physicist, a Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and a faculty associate at Harvard's University Center for International Development. He is well-known for his Trans Disciplinal works which focus more on improving the understandings of systems, industrial policy and economic growth by applying new science of networks and mathematical tools which are largely derived from statistical physics. Moreover, he is also developing some industrial policies which are useful to countries in raising the standard of living of their people.
His works
Cesar hidalgo is definitely different from other physicist since he approaches networks as an art. He is good in applying science of networks in analyzing the global economy. Most of his works are illustrated using trajectories, mobile phone networks, nodes, nematodes and figures. He is currently studying economic development from the view point of complexity and networks science.
Hidalgo, together with Ricardo Hausmann argues that a country’s production capacity depends on the diversity of its inputs and outputs. They assume that products that require more inputs are more scant. In addition, they mapped a Product Space to explain how difficult for undeveloped countries to create a competitive exports. JAM
César A. Hidalgo holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor in Physics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.César A. Hidalgo is the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and a faculty associate at Harvard's University Center for International Development. César worked as an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Research Fellow at Harvard's Center for International Development before he joined the MIT. Dr Hidalgo's work focuses on improving the understanding of systems using and developing concepts of complexity, evolution and network science. His areas of application include (i) economic development, where he has pioneered the use of networks to quantify the productive structure of countries and its evolution, (ii) systems biology where he has published work on disease co-morbidity and genetic regulation, and (iii), social systems, where he has worked on human mobility and social network analysis using mobile phone data. Dr. Hidalgo is also a graphic art enthusiast and has published and exposed artwork that uses data collected originally for scientific purposes.
Awards:
-Center for Research Computing award for Computational Sciences and Visualization (2008)
-Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching. Kaneb Center, Notre Dame (2007)
-Selected as an outstanding teaching assistant by the American Association of Physics Teachers (2007)
-Nominated for best student paper at the APS March meeting (2007)
- Hellen Kellogg Institute Supplemental Award. Notre Dame, IN (2004-2008)
-Appeared on Marqui's Who is Who in the world. (2006-2008)
-Companionship Award. British High School. Santiago Chile (1995)
His research focuses on the dynamical aspects of social and biological phenomena. He have specialized in the analysis of large data sets in an empirically driven approach to understand the interplay between the structure and the dynamics of the networks defined by systems as diverse as mobile phone networks, genetic coexpression, TF-promoter binding, disease comorbidity, and economic complexity.
His current research agenda at Harvard University focuses mainly in the study of economic development from the perspective of complexity and network science. In particular, he study the evolution of countries' productive structures, both empirically and theoretically, by looking at how the development process is shaped by the similarity between a country's products and the capabilities that go into producing them.CHA
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