Misha is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. His research focuses on the drivers of scientific innovation (“science of science”). He studies how scientists communicate ideas to one another and the general public, and how these flows are shaped by status, culture, location, and technology. He also studies how scientific organizations evaluate and select research projects to invest into. Methodologically, he employs a variety of tools from the computational social science toolkit, especially field experiments and quantitative analysis of administrative data.