Albert-László Barabási

Sponsor: Templeton Fndn

Using Big Data to Quantify and Cultivate Genius

We aim to identify early career markers that suggest that an individual has the potential to achieve exceptional performance and possibly, professional and public recognition. We aim to determine the earliest point in a career when these achievements can be detected and predicted, quantify the delay between performing groundbreaking work and receiving academic and public recognition, and ultimately develop a quantitative prediction model to explore the possibility of nurturing future exceptional performance in science.