SONIC Alumni

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PhD Advisees

Academia

      • Aaron Schecter, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business
      • Alina Lungeanu, Assistant Professor of Communciation Studies, the D’Amore McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
      • Brian Keegan, Assistant Professor, Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
      • Brooke Foucault Welles, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
      • Chunke Su, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Texas at Arlington
      • David Brandon, Research Coordinator, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      • Jacqueline Ng Lane, Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School
      • Kyosuke Tanaka, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Management, Aarhus University
      • Marlon Twyman II, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
      • Meikuan Huang, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stainislaus
      • Ryan Whalen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong
      • Robert Whitbred, Director and Associate Professor, School of Communication, Cleveland State University
      • Yixue Wang, PhD Student, Northwestern University (TSB)
      • Zachary Gibson, PhD Student, Northwestern University (PhD)
      • Aaron Campbell, PhD Student, Northwestern University 
      • Niloufar Izadinia, PhD Student, Northwestern University
      • Diego Gomez-Zara, Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
      • Brennan Antone, Assistant Research Professor in Communication and Information Science, Cornell University
      • Gregory Kielmeyer, Professor, Communication, Pensacola Christian College
      • Koustav Rudra, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
      • Mark Zhao, Doctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS), Northwestern University

      • Jasmine Wu, Post-Doc Researcher, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

      • Lindsay Young, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Annenberg

Industry

      • Alexandros Nathan, co-founder, Aventrix Analytics and Metrika
      • Connie Casebolt Davis
      • David Huffaker, Principal, UX – Insight UX (Search, Assistant, Maps, Commerce), Google
      • Edward Palazzolo, Program Manager, Army Research Office
      • Igor Zakhlebin, Quantitative Researcher, 3Red Partners
      • James Miller, Chief Revenue Officer, Motus LLC
      • Kathleen Sturgis, CEO and Founder, Organizational Development and Communication Strategist, Refreshment Zone, Raleigh Durham, NC
      • Mengxiao Zhu, Professor, Science and Technology Communication, University of Science & Technology of China
      • Sophia Sullivan, Vice President of Data Science, Integra Credit
      • Susan Grant, Intelligence Analysis Area Focus Liasion, National Security Agency, USA
      • Aryaman Gupta – Associate Consultant at GEP

Pre-Doc Mentor

      • Alessia Sammarra, Professor of Organization and HRM, Università dell’Aquila e LUISS Business School, Italy
      • Cataldo Dino Ruta, Professor of Human Resources and Sport Management, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy
      • Yuanxin Wang, Lecturer, Minzu University of China

Postdoctoral Researchers

Academia

      • Ivan Hernandez, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Virginia Tech University
      • Michael Schultz, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University
      • Patrick Park, Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Toshio Murase, Assistant Professor at Roosevelt University and Associate Professor at Waseda University
      • Hank Green, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Indiana University
      • Jun Wang, Research Assistant Professor at Syracuse University
      • Michelle Birkett, Associate Professor, Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University
      • Ga Hyun (Iris) Jeon
      • Yun Huang, Data Scientist, Shanghai Shuoen Network Technology Company
      • Balint Neray, UX Researcher at Facebook
      • Sean Fitzhugh, Research Sociologist, Humans in Complex Systems Division, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
      • Agnes Horvat, Associate Professor, Communication, Northwestern
      • Arend Kuyper, Assistant Professor, Statistics, Northwestern
      • Andrea Hollingshead, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, USC
      • Paul Leonardi, Professor, Technology Management Program & Communication, UCSB
      • Hyejin Youn, Associate Professor, Management & Organization, Northwestern University

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Master’s Students

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Committee Members 

Academia

      • Amy Wax, Associate Professor, Psychology, Cal State University Long Beach
      • Casey Pierce, Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
      • Bruce Lambert, Professor, Communication, Northwestern University
      • Dorothy Carter, Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
      • Fabio Fonti, Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, NEOMA Business School
      • Harsh Taneja, Assistant Professor, U of Illinois, College of Media
      • Ilya Gokhman, Faculty Lead of Grand Challenges, Georgia Tech
      • Jeffrey Treem, Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
      • Kasey Walker, Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
      • Kevin Rockmann, Professor, Management, George Mason University
      • Laleah Fernandez, Assistant Director, Quello Center at Michigan State University
      • Laleah Fernandez, Assistant Director, Institutional Research, Michigan State University
      • Lindsay Larson, Assistant Professor, College of Business, Florida International University
      • Samantha M. Keppler, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations, University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business
      • Sofia Fu, Assistant Professor of Communication, Rutgers School of Information and Communication
      • Tom Ksiazek, Associate Professor, Communication, Villanova University
      • Vanessa Cedeno, Professor of Computer Science, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
      • William C. Barley, Associate Professor, Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      • Jeremy Foote, Assistant Professor, Communication, Purdue University
      • Xiao (Angela) Wu, Assistant Professor, NYU, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication 
      • Marya Doerfel, Professor & Chair, Communication, Rutgers
      • Yian Yin, Assistant Professor, Information Science, Cornell University
      • Kay Yoon, Professor, Communication, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Industry

      • Alexa Harris, Post Doctoral Fellow, Army Research Lab
      • Anna Langhorne, Global Privacy Officer, Arvinas
      • Ashley Niler, User Experience Researcher, Facebook
      • Gabriel Plummer, Senior Assessor, Global Assessment Operations (GAO) at Development Dimensions International; and Head of Assessment, Coachability Consultants, Inc.
      • Laura Koehly, Chief, Social & Behavioral Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
      • Mark Rivera, Senior Staff Research Manager, Google
      • Melissa Dobosh, Associate Professor, Communication, U of Northern Iowa
      • Michael Stringer, Executive Design Director, IDEO
      • Peilin Tian, Senior People Research Scientist, Block
      • Reuven Lerner, Python trainer, Lerner Consulting
      • Willem Pieterson, Senior Expert, Omnichannel Management, ICTU
      • Yu Li (Patrick) Hsieh, Survey Methodologist / Digital Sociologist, RTI International and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Staff

Academia

      • Meghan McCarter, Project Coordinator for Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University
      • Eric Forbush, Research Associate, Harvard Business School
      • Khwan Kim, PhD Student, Organizational Behavior, INSEAD
      • Kitty Cheung, M.S. Student, Statistics and Sociology, Brown University
      • Brent Hoagland, PhD Student, Sociology, Rutgers University
      • Tony Vashevko, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behavior, INSEAD
      • Jinling Li, Research Specialist, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
      • Carmen Chan, Post-Bac Advisee, Communications, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • Julia Phillips, Research Coordinator, Memory Disorders Center at Columbia University Medical Center
      • Harshad Gado, Software Developer, Rally Health
      • Aldo Díaz Callabero
      • Lindsay Young, Assistant Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg

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Visiting Affiliates/Scholars

Academia

      • Baozhen Li, Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Jiangsu University of Science & Technology
      • Cristina Casareale, Pre-Doc Visiting Scholar, Civil and Environmental Protection, the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
      • Chuang Zhang, Professor, Institute of Cyber Education Technology in BUPT China
      • Elena Pavan, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Trento
      • Fahime Ghasemian, Computer Software Professional, Iran
      • Hank Green, Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School; Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation
      • Jennifer Brown, Director, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities at Northwestern University
      • Jinling Li, Research Specialist, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
      • Julia Neidarht, Research Unit, E-Commerce Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien
      • Julija Mell, Associate Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
      • Katerina Bohle, Postdoctoral Researcher, National University of Ireland, Galway
      • Konstantinos Yfantis, Manager of Teaching and Learning Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      • Li Yu, Associate Professor, School of Information, Renmin University of China
      • Lidwien van de Wijngaert, Professor, Radboud University
      • Meikuan Huang, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, California State University
      • Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, PhD Student, Northwestern University (Physics)
      • Patricia Jones, Associate Director for Research, Beckman Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      • Roberto Dandi, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, Pontifical University of Santa Croce and Adjunct Professor, LUISS, Rome
      • Roger Leenders, Professor, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
      • Shigeki Toyama, Associate Professor at Kochi University
      • Silvia Andreoli, General Director at the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy, University of Buenos Aires
      • Tim Hannigan, Assistant Professor, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta
      • Toshio Murase, Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University
      • Yulia Popova, Research Intern, National Research University — Higher School of Economics
      • Yuval Kalish, Faculty and Research Consultant, Tel Aviv University
      • Steve Harper, Professor, Engineering, James Madison University

Industry

      • Curie Chang, Data Governance Analyst at Federal Reserve Board
      • Jemin George, Research Engineer at US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
      • Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Research Engineering Lead for North America for Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Labs
      • York Yao, Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead, HERE (a Nokia business)

Undergraduate Students

Academia

      • Alex Alwan, Northwestern Class of 2019
      • Aryaman Gupta, Master’s Candidate at Kellogg School of Management
      • Brandon Caldwell, Medical Student, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
      • David Brandon, Research Coordinator, Center for Advanced Research in Drying
      • Huiran (Tina) Zhang, Northwestern Class of 2020
      • Jeremy Aregood, Attorney, Self-Employed
      • Jessica Cohen, Senior Business Solutions Consultant, LinkedIn
      • Joe Blackman, Marketing Analyst, CME Group
      • Joe Celentino, Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
      • Joel Kirshner, Analytics Fellow, McKinsey & Company
      • John Takiguchi, Law Clerk, Ancel Glink Diamond Bush DiCianni & Krafthefer, P.C.
      • Kathleen Young, Graduate Student, New York University
      • Melina Sherman, PhD student at University of Southern California
      • Mengzi (Amy) Guo, PhD student at University of Berkeley (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research)
      • Michael Armstrong, Graduate Research Assistant, Metathesis Project, Ohio State University
      • Nicholas House, Practicum Student, Dominican University
      • Nick Merrill, Director of Daylight Lab, UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
      • Peter Nam, Computer Science and Economics Student, Northwestern University
      • Sanne ten Tije, Lecturer Research Methodology, Saxion University
      • Tommy Rousse, Law & Science Fellow, Northwestern University
      • Vinay Sridharan, JD/MBA Candidate, Columbia University
      • Ruoxi Li, Cornell University Class of 2022
      • Louis Ho-Lung, Wong Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • MinHyuk (Brian) Cho, Northwestern University Class of 2022
      • Savir Maskara, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Austin Kim, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Hanchen (Kevin) Zhang, Northwestern University Class of 2022
      • Roman Svintitskyy, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Sam Huang, Northwestern University Class of 2023 
      • Yujia (Cynthia) Xie, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Annie Chen, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Bill Gao, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Charlie Chiang, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Mika Ng, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Molly Whalen, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Amanda Han, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Yun Teng, Northwestern University Class of 2022
      • Nikola Zhang, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Jessica Cheng, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Kaili Tu, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Bradley Pawlow, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Jacob Trevino, Northwestern University Class of 2022
      • Laith Kassisieh, Northwestern University Class of 2022
      • Kevin Li, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Sarah Brown, Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Carli Kelley, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Kara Cho, Northwestern University Class of 2025
      • Shamika Likhite, M.A. Northwestern University Class of 2023
      • Fumika Hoshi, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Mahmood Sadeghi, Northwestern University Class of 2025
      • Erica Zhou, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Yanis Zaim, Northwestern University Class of 2026
      • Zack Johnson, General Manager, Embedded Analytics, Visier
      • Sarah Sawyer, Masters of Science in Financial Engineering, Columbia University
      • Jessica Cheng, Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company
      • Arman Rahim, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Victoria Shi, Northwestern University Class of 2025
      • Mika Ng, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Laura Felix, Northwestern University Class of 2026
      • Leah Pothel, Northwestern University Class of 2025
      • Mingyi Gong, Northwestern University Class of 2024
      • Raghav Sinha, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Class of 2024
      • Alex Buerck, Northwestern University Class of 2025
      • Samantha Laos Cueva, Northwestern University Class of 2024

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