Congratulations to Kyosuke Tanaka, Leslie DeChurch and Noshir Contractor for their paper acceptance at the 72nd Annual ICA Conference! Their paper, “Knowing is not Enough: How Network Awareness and Acuity are Associated”, will be presented at the hybrid conference in May 2022.
SONIC Recruiting Interns for Winter 2022!
We have opportunities for undergraduate students to join us as Data Science Interns, and receive class credit for research work in the lab. There is a possibility to extend the internship to subsequent quarters. Contact Arshya Srinivas (arshyasrinivas2021@u.northwestern.edu) or Noshir Contractor (nosh@northwestern.edu) with questions.
Detailed description of internship available for Winter 2022 can be found here
Contractor and Chen Present at Segal Design at Intersections Series
On November 15th, Noshir Contractor and Wei Chen discussed the usage of network science in building teams and supporting design preference modeling!
Read the article here: https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2021/12/design-and-engineering-intersect-in-new-event-series/
Watch the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyyaHIPpBWU&list=PLdULCJWbGgZROyteCtpKUZZL_w3p2APth&index=3
New Publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology!
Congratulations to Jasmine Wu, Brennan Antone, Arshya Srinivas, Leslie DeChurch and Noshir Contractor on publishing a paper with the Journal of Applied Psychology! The paper is titled “Teamwork in the Time of COVID-19: Creating, Dissolving, and Reactivating Network Ties in Response to a Crisis”
Wu, Y. J., Antone, B., Srinivas, A., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2021). Teamwork in the time of COVID-19: Creating, dissolving, and reactivating network ties in response to a crisis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(10), 1483–1492. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000969
Contractor Lecture at Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication and Film
Noshir Contractor delivered a lecture at the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication and Film yesterday, on the topic “People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace”.
Congratulations for the Bill Eadie Distinguished Scholarly Article Award!
Congratulations to Sophie Fu, Michelle Shumate and Noshir Contractor for receiving the Bill Eadie Distinguished Scholarly Article Award for NCA’s Applied Communication Division this year! They received this award for the article submission “Organizational and individual innovation decisions in an interorganizational system: Social influence and decision-making authority”.
Contractor Listed as 2019 ACM Fellow
Congratulations to Noshir Contractor for receiving the ACM Fellows Award, selected in 2019! Watch the announcement here!
Contractor and DeChurch Present at NSF Science of Organizations Conference
Congratulations to Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch for presenting the “Teamwork in the time of COVID-19: Creating, dissolving, and reactivating network ties in response to a crisis” paper today! This paper is a collaboration with Jasmine Wu, Brennan Antone and Arshya Srinivas.
SONIC and ATLAS Labs Training Teams for SIRIUS Space Mission
SONIC is proud to partner with the ATLAS lab in training the Northwestern University twin teams for the SIRIUS 21 240-day simulated space mission which “launched” on Thursday November 4, 2021 at the Nazemnyy Eksperimental’nyy Kompleks in Moscow! These Martian analysis teams will work with SIRIUS 21 crew to find water on Mars, bringing us all closer to seeing humans set off for the red planet!
Contractor Presenting at Segal Design at the Intersections Series on November 15th
Join Segal Design Institute for the third talk in the “Design at the Intersections” series, featuring Wei Chen, chair and professor of mechanical engineering, and Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences. This talk will be on November 15th, from 4PM to 5PM CT. In this talk, Chen and Contractor will discuss their view of design as a system that incorporates the people (designers and customers), the processes and methods designers use, the artifacts or outcomes of design, and the socio-technical environment in which design takes place. They will introduce their research journey, in which they work across the disciplines of engineering and social sciences using network modeling to understand design complexity. They will demonstrate how data-driven network science is an effective approach for analyzing such complexity, to support product design decisions and assemble design teams. Specific examples will include the use of multidimensional network analysis and graph neural networks for understanding customer preferences, and the use of a social network approach to studying the design of teams composed of humans as well as teams composed of human and autonomous agents.
Register here: https://forms.gle/daAaUUcFtHNTZLZ17