César A. Hidalgo

Cesar A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-American physicist and scholar known for his work on economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence. He holds a chair at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI) at the University of Toulouse, and has appointments at Manchester and Harvard University. Prior to joining ANITI, he led the Collective Learning group at the MIT.

Hidalgo is the author of dozens of peer-reviewed publications and three books: How Humans Judge Machines (MIT Press), Why Information Grows (Basic Books), and The Atlas of Economic Complexity (MIT Press).

His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Lagrange prize for complex systems, and three Webby Awards, two for civil and government innovation and one for the best use of machine learning.