Coming up starting tomorrow, SONIC will be a part of the ANN-SONIC-NICO 10th International Workshop on Network Theory! This year’s theme is ‘Human AI Social Networks @ Work’. Read more on the workshop here: https://www.nico.northwestern.edu/international-workshop-network-theory/

SONIC Member Alina Lungeanu has accepted a tenure track faculty position at Northeastern University starting Fall 2023. Alina will join the College of Arts, Media and Design in the Department of Communication Studies, with a joint appointment in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business in the Management and Organizational Development Group. Additionally, she will be a Core Member of the Network Science Institute (NetSI). Congratulations!

This past week SONIC’s Noshir Contractor, Neelam Modi, and Leslie DeChurch co-chaired a session called “Overcoming the Data Collection Burden for Organizational Network Analysis” at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference! Also in attendance from SONIC was Megan Chan with a poster seen below!

SONIC Director Noshir Contractor will be giving a lecture as part of Hong Kong Baptist University’s Distinguished Lecture Series! His talk is titled “People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace” and you can sign up here.

Check out this recently published paper which SONIC Director Noshir Contractor worked on titled “Social Perception in Human-AI Teams: Warmth and competence predict receptivity to AI teammates“!

This past week on March 20, SONIC Director Noshir Contractor was a panelist at a virtual session for the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration! He spoke on the panel titled “AI Shock: The Future of Economy, Organizations, Work, and Management Education”.

This past weekend, many SONIC members went to Miami to attend the Teams Research Incubator 4.0! Several talks were given by our members—Alina Lungeanu on “Success in first-time partnerships: optimal expertise diversity”, Vsevolod Suschevskiy on “Untangling the structure of leadership in Human-AI teams”, Jasmine Wu on “Cracking the code of team dynamics: Managing team interpersonal processes with communication technologies during the pandemic”, Megan Chan on “Network signatures of effective multiteam systems”, and Neelam Modi on “Crossing boundaries in science: The value of diverse vs atypical collaborations”

Coming up, SONIC Director Noshir Contractor will be a keynote speaker, alongside Professor Dame Wendy Hall, at the International Institute for Information Technology Bangalore Workshop on Web Science for Development! Read more about the conference, IIITB, and register at the following link: https://cognitive.iiitb.ac.in/ws4d/

Today, SONIC Director Noshir Contractor can be found giving an invited lecture entitled “People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust From The Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workspace” at the CUDAN Open Lab Seminar Series. More information can be found here: https://cudan.tlu.ee/events/

Coming up on March 3 SONIC Director Noshir Contractor will be featured as a panelist during an “Ask the Experts” session with AOM-CARMA. He will be featured in Session II which focuses on network analysis and dynamic networks. You can learn more about it here!