Jackie Ng – a finalist in the INFORMS Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition

SONIC member and Ph.D candidate in Industrial Engineering & Management Scienes,  Jackie Ng, was selected as one of eight finalists in the INFORMS Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions available to doctoral students studying organizations. Finalists presented their dissertation proposals during a workshop on Saturday, October 21st to a panel of judges at the 2017 INFORMS annual conference in Houston.  Jackie’s dissertation proposal is titled Social media and their affordances for effective teamwork.
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Noshir Contractor gave two talks as an invited speaker at CCS 2017 in Cancun, Mexico

This September, Noshir Contractor was invited to present at the Conference on Complex Systems 2017 in Cancun, Mexico.

On September 19th, Noshir presented on Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges abstract ) in a session titled “Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) – Social Systems and Human Interactions.”

On September 20th, Noshir presented on Can CSS motivate New Theories, Data Sources Methods? ( abstract ) in a session titled “Computational Social Science and Complexity: From Socio-Physics to Data-Driven Research. In memoriam Rosaria Conte.”
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