Graduate Student Researchers

Alina Lungeanu

Alina Lungeanu

PhD Student, Technology and Social Behavior
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-0841
Email: alina.lungeanu@u.northwestern.edu

Interests: Social network analysis; computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW); virtual teams in digital-enabled environments such as scientific collaboration; team assembly, human-computer interaction.

Cindy Weng

Cindy Weng

Phone: 301.693.1987
Email: cweng@u.northwestern.edu

Interests: social network analysis, online communities and interaction, social gaming, team ecosystems, big data, predictive analytics

Lindsay Young

Lindsay Young

PhD Student, Media, Technology & Society
Office: 2-168, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-0841
Email: lindsayyoung2013@u.northwestern.edu

Interests: Social mechanisms behind the emergence of “issue networks,” structuration theory, social network theories, public goods and collective action theories

Liwen Ouyang

Liwen Ouyang

PhD Candidate, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Office: C230, Institute of Technology
Email: liwenouyang2011@u.northwestern.edu

Interests: social network analysis, agent-based modeling, event-data modeling

Ryan Whalen

Ryan Whalen

PhD Student, Media, Technology & Society
JD Student, Northwestern Law
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 847-467-0841
Email: ryan@ryanwhalen.com

Interests: Empirical legal studies, communication and technology regulation, multimodal legal/policy networks, political communication,  public broadcasting, government communication

Sophia Sullivan

Sophia Sullivan

PhD Candidate, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Phone: 919-606-0854
Email: SophiaSullivan2014@u.northwestern.edu

Interests: social network analysis, organizations, teams, virtual worlds, online communities, analytics, agent-based modeling, simulation, decision analysis, operations research, HR analytics, human resource management

Sneha Narayan

Sneha Narayan

Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building
Email: snehanarayan2012@u.northwestern.edu

Interests: social network analysis, gender and social networks, complex systems