Brennan Klein
Assistant Teaching Professor
Brennan Klein is core faculty at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Physics. He is the program director of the MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern University.
Prof. Klein is also the director of the Complexity & Society Lab, which is focused on two broad research areas: 1) Information, emergence, and inference in complex systems: developing tools and theory for characterizing dynamics, structure, and scale in networks, and 2) Public health and public safety: drawing on complex systems science to document—and fight against—emergent or systemic disparities in society, especially as they relate to public health and public safety.
In 2023, Prof. Klein was awarded the René Thom Young Researcher Award, given to a researcher to recognize substantial early career contributions and leadership in research in Complex Systems-related fields. Prof. Klein is the Data for Justice Fellow at the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. He received a PhD in Network Science in 2020 from Northeastern University and earned his BA in Cognitive Science & Psychology from Swarthmore College in 2014.