BiografÃa / Speaker Info
César A. Hidalgo is a physicist, author, researcher, professor and entrepreneur. He studied physics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and furthered his studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is known for his contributions to economic complexity, data visualization and applied artificial intelligence.
He is the founder of Datawheel, a company specialized in the creation of data visualization and distribution systems. He leads the Center for Artificial Collective Learning and the Institute of Natural Intelligence at the University of Toulouse. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Manchester and a visiting professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He also works at MIT and was a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
His awards include the Lagrange Prize (2018) and three Webby Awards. He is also the author of scientific articles and three books, "Why Information Grows" (Basic Books, 2015), "The Atlas of Economic Complexity" (MIT Press, 2014) and "How Humans Judge Machines" (MIT Press, 2021).
