Noshir Contractor
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Office: 2-1, Frances Searle Building
Work: 847-491-669
Email: nosh@northwestern.edu
Website: http://nosh.northwestern.edu
Willem Pieterson
Visiting Assistant Professor from the Center for e-Government Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands
Office: Room 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
E-mail: w.j.pieterson@utwente.nl
Research interests: Multi-Channel Management, e-Government, Human-Computer Interaction, Service Delivery, Media & Channel Choice Behavior.
Meikuan Huang
Visiting Researcher
Office: 1-459A, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-2564
Email: meikuan-huang@northwestern.edu
Website: http://urbanahouse.com
Current Research: She researches and teaches organizational communication and group communication with the focus on strategic knowledge management and social networks, especially those supported by ICTs. She works on VOSS project which develops and tests a theoretical framework to understand the socio-technical dynamics shaping the assembly of teams in virtual scientific communities.
Hua Wang
Visiting PhD student from Renmin University of China, Beijing
Office: Room 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
E-mail: wanghuaruc@gmail.com
Research interests: social networks in organizational contexts, organizational identification & organizational identity, cooperation & negotiation, personality, trust, justice, and organization innovation.
York Yao
Senior Research Programmer
Office: 1-459B, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-2567
Interests: Java, Flex/Flash, Social Network Analysis, Recommender Systems, Grid Environments
Yun Huang
Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow
Office: 1-459A, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-256
Email: yun@northwestern.edu
Website: http://yunh.net
Current Research: Individual behavior, interactions, and virtual teams in digital-enabled environments such as scientific collaboration, online communities, and virtual worlds; analyzing the dynamic and evolution of individual relations using data mining, social network analysis, and economics approaches.
Jinling Li
Research Programmer
Office: 1-459B, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-2565
Email: jinling-li@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: Social network visualization, object oriented modeling and construction, and design and implementation of distributed applications and databases.
Mengxiao Zhu
Ph.D Candidate
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-2568
Email: mzhu@northwestern.edu
Website: http://sophyzhu.googlepages.com
Interests: Information sharing and technology, organizational and computer mediated communication, emergence of socio-technical networks, complex social systems, agent-based modeling, and social network analysis.
Brian Keegan
Ph.D Candidate
Interests: Power structures and deviance in online communities, collaboration and computer-mediated communication, social network analysis, and complex social systems.
Anne Van Devender
Ph.D Candidate
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Email: vandevender.a@gmail.com
Interests: human-computer interaction, Gender Studies, social network analysis, and learning sciences
Brooke Foucault Welles
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Email: b-foucault@northwestern.edu
Website: http://brookeanddevon.com/brooke
Interests: Human-computer interaction, ethnography, social network analysis, virtual worlds, friendship and adolescent development.
Linsay Young
Ph.D. Candidate
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Email:
Lindsay Young is a first year PhD student in the Media, Technology & Society Program at Northwestern University. Her research addresses the confluence of three areas of scholarship: social movements, social networks, and information and communication technologies (ICT).
Interests: The impact that ICTs have had on the emergence of networks within the movement; How these network structures guide behavior within the movement; How these network structures are produced and reproduced through actor behavior; The extent to which an organizational digital divide exists between established resource-rich orgs and resource-poor organizations and the implications of such a divide on the development of effective movement networks.
Zachary Johnson
Undergraduate Researcher
Office: Room 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-0841
Email: zacharyjohnson2007@u.northwestern.edu
Interests: Software documentation, applied problem solving, social networking business research.
Barry Mcardel
Undergraduate Researcher
Office: Frances Searle Building
Email:
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Larkin Brown
Undergraduate Researcher
Office: Frances Searle Building
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Past Faculty Members
- Lidwien van de Wijngaert, Media, Communicatie en Organisatie, Centre for E-government studies, Universiteit Twente, Faculteit Gedragswetenschappen
- Patricia Jones, Chief (Acting), Human Factors Research and Technology Division: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center
- Barbara O'Keefe, Dean, School of Communication, Northwestern University
Past Students (now faculty)
- Fabio Fonti, Assistant Professor, Boston College
- Edward Palazzolo, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Ohio State university.
- Cataldo Dino Ruta, Bocconi University and SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy
- Alessia Sammarra , LUISS, Rome, Italy
- Robert Whitbred, Assistant Professor , Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown
Past Students (now in academia)
- Annie Wang
- David Huffaker, University of Michigan
- Jun Wang, Syracuse University
- Mike Armstrong, Graduate Assistant, Ohio State University
- Dr. David Brandon, Manager, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Dr. Roberto Dandi, Post Doctoral Scientist, Science Of Networks In Communities (SONIC), National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UIUC
- Feihong Hsu, Graduate Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago
- V. Ratnadeep Suri, Indiana University
Former Students (now in industry)
- Mike Chan, Where2GetIt, Wheeling, IL, USA, mchan@chanfam.net Dr. Susan Grant, US National Security Agency
- Andrew Hyatt, Visible Paths
- Dr. Jim Miller, Intraspect, Senior Sales Executive, Collaboration
- Dana Serb, Managing Consultant, The Revere Group
- Andrew Swarbrick, Deltica Corporation, surrey, UK
- Jeff Tamer, Google
- Peter Taylor
- Jered Wierzbicki, UIUC
- Brian Willard, Microsoft
- Pascal Yammine, Chief Technology Officer, Straec Technology Solutions
- Konstantinos Yfantis, Campus Information Technology & Education Service, UIUC
- Dan Zink, Amazon