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sonicnu SONIC Research Group @sonicnu ·
20 Jun

Congrats to Dr. Neelam Modi on her Ph.D. from Northwestern! Next up: a postdoc at Columbia Business School in the Management Division & Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change.

📸 Pictured with @noshir at commencement!

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Join us in congratulating Professor Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University) on receiving the ICA B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award. This award honors scholars who’ve made a lasting impact in the academic field of communication.

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sonicnu SONIC Research Group @sonicnu ·
11 Jun

On June 9, SONIC Lab welcomed back Prof. Julia Neidhardt (TU Wien) for a talk on “Human-Centered Recommender Systems.” A former visiting scholar at SONIC, she now leads work at the intersection of AI and digital humanism.

Learn more:
https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/people/julia-neidhardt

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5 Jun

New research by Brian Uzzi, Noshir Contractor, Satyam Mukherjee, and Yun Huang shows teams are 1.6x more likely to win when they recruit from rival teams—not just for talent, but for insider knowledge.

Read: The Upside of Recruiting Your Rivals

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the-upside-of-recruiting-your-rivals

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30 May

🎉 Big congrats to SONIC undergrad Faith Do for winning 2nd place in Social & Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern’s Research Expo!

Her project on AI in human teams, guided by PhD student Simon Liu, impressed judges with its clarity and impact.

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