
Cesar A. Hidalgo is the head of the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab and the ABC Career Development Professor at MIT. An antidisciplinary academic by choice, and a poet at heart, Hidalgo focuses on improving our understanding of the world’s complexity. His tools include the construction of visualization engines that make available unwieldy volumes of data; the development of data-collection methods and metrics that make visible hitherto neglected aspects of our reality; and the development of theories and narratives that can help put together the pieces that reductionist approaches have pulled apart.