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Leonardo Rizzo

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2026

  1. New preprint on generative AI and collaboration networks

    With Giuseppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio: thirteen months of data on 12,000 knowledge workers show that generative AI increases collaboration and reshapes who people work with.

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  2. PhD defence at Central European University

    I defended my PhD thesis in Network Science, Network Structures and Innovation Dynamics, at CEU in Vienna. Thanks to my supervisor János Kertész and to the committee: Mark Wittek, Leon Oerlemans and Guido Fioretti.

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  3. Joining SDA Bocconi as Assistant Professor of Practice

    I joined SDA Bocconi School of Management as Assistant Professor of Practice.

  4. New preprint on innovation dynamics and local optima networks

    With Eddie Lee and János Kertész, we model innovation as a walk on a local optima network and recover four regularities of discovery processes from one model.

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2025

  1. Conclave paper published online in Social Networks

    Our network analysis of the 2025 conclave, with Giuseppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio, is out online in Social Networks.

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  2. Social ratcheting paper out in Philosophical Transactions B

    How cumulative cultural evolution made specialists irreversibly interdependent — with Lucio Vinicius, Federico Battiston and Andrea Migliano.

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