ICA 2020 was a big success for SONIC! Special congratulations to alumna Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, who was awarded the Applied/Public Policy Research Award; 1st year graduate student Jasmine Wu in the Media, Technology, and Society program, whose paper was recognized as top student paper at the Communication & Technology Division; Director Dr. Noshir Contractor who was nominated to run for ICA President!
PhD candidate Diego Gómez-Zará and others received Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2020
Congratulations to lead author, Diego Gómez-Zará, 4th year PhD candidate in Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) on receiving Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2020 for his paper “The Impact of Displaying Diversity Information on the Formation of Self-assembling Teams.”
This paper is co-authored with our data science intern, Mengzi Guo, undergraduate student with majors in Applied Mathematics and Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, as well as Professor and Director Noshir Contractor, and Professor Leslie DeChurch.
Read more: https://chi2020.acm.org/for-attendees/chi-2020-best-papers-honourable-mentions/
Noshir Contractor honored at AAAS Fellows induction ceremony
Congratulations to Noshir Contractor on being inducted into The 2019 AAAS class of 2019 Fellows last Saturday! He is recognized for his intellectual leadership in the development of computational social science and web science, as well as his contributions to network science theory and methodology.
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Noshir Contractor delivered research lecture at UCSB Technology Management Program
On Feb 3rd, SONIC Director Noshir Contractor gave lecture on “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century”.
Congrats to SONIC PhD students Brennan Antone and Niloufar Izadinia on winning NASA HRP Grant Augmentation Awards!
Our graduate students in IEMS, Brennan Antone and Niloufar Izadinia, are selected as winners of NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) Grant Augmentation Competition. Brennan will work on “POLARIS: Prescriptions Optimally Learned Assessing Risk in Space” (PI: Noshir Contractor) while Niloufar will work on “Measuring and Predicting Performance for Individuals, Teams and Systems in Interdependent Crew Tasks (MAPPITS-ICT)” (PI: Leslie DeChurch).
NASA work covered in Germany RBB Kulturradio radio broadcast
Our work for the MARS 2033 mission is covered in Germany RBB Kulturradio radio broadcast, episode “Auf der Suche nach dem idealen” (In search of the perfect team).
Listen to it here:
https://www.rbb-online.de/rbbkultur/radio/programm/schema/sendungen/kulturtermin/archiv/20200113_1904.html
Upcoming NASA HRP IWS 2020 presentations
Contractor presented at the 2019 Complex Networks conference
On December 12th, Prof. Noshir Contractor presented two research articles at the 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Noshir Contractor named ACM Fellow for advancements in computing
Congratulations, Noshir!
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Noshir Contractor as one of its 2019 ACM Fellows.
ACM Fellows comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the association’s global membership. This year’s class was selected for far-reaching accomplishments that define the digital age and greatly impact our professional and personal lives.
Insight’s Building Great Team’s story is live
Our work is featured in Kellogg Insight’s “What Science Can Tell Us about Building Great Teams”:
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/building-leading-great-teams-research