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!
SONIC Members Attend SIOP Conference
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!
Contractor Gives Distinguished Lecture at HKBU
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.
Contractor Co-Authored Social Perception Paper
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“!
Contractor Panelist at Korean Academic Society of Business Administration
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”.
SONIC Members Speak at Miami Academic Workshop
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”
Contractor to be Keynote Speaker at IIITB
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/
Contractor Presents at CUDAN Open Lab Seminar
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/
Contractor to be a Panelist with AOM-CARMA
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!
Contractor Gives Lecture at Stanford on People Analytics
On the 15th of this month, SONIC Director Noshir Contractor gave a lecture at Stanford entitled “People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace”! The lecture was given at one of Stanford University’s Organizational Behavior Seminars.