César A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar who holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Notre Dame and is well known for his contributions to economic complexity, and applied artificial intelligence.
Hidalgo is a Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and head of the Center for Collective Learning (CCL), a multidisciplinary research laboratory with offices in Toulouse and at Corvinus University of Budapest. Prior to moving to Europe, Hidalgo led MIT’s Collective Learning group and was a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Hidalgo’s contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2018 Lagrange Prize.
The Center for Collective Learning (CCL) is an interdisciplinary laboratory working to understand how knowledge moves, grows, and decays. For decades we have used artificial intelligence and network science techniques to explore questions of regional, international, and urban development. We pioneered the field of economic complexity, the use of crowdsourcing and computer vision methods to understand the physical qualities of cities, and are innovating in the development of digital democracy platforms.
