Last week, the SONIC team said goodbye to two of our own– Graduate Student Researcher Jasmine Wu, and Research Assistant Professor Alina Lungeanu. Jasmine is off to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and Alina will be continuing her work at Northeastern University. We thank them both for the years of work and passion they’ve spent at SONIC, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors!

This past weekend multiple SONIC members attended the Academy of Management Annual Meeting! Talks were given by SONIC Director Noshir Contractor, as well as Neelam Modi, Jasmine Wu, and Megan Chan.

We are so excited to announce SONIC Director Noshir Contractor has been selected to be honored with induction into the Academy of Management Fellows for 2023! You can read more about all the 2023 AOM Fellows here: https://aom.org/about-aom/aom-news/blog-detail_releases/blog-detail/releases/2023/06/26/ten-inducted-into-aom-fellows-for-2023?_zs=RR7q91&_zl=wbFA7 Congratulations Noshir!

This year at Sunbelt 2023, three SONIC members, Neelam Modi, Jasmine Wu, and Megan Chan, as well as SONIC Director Noshir Contractor all gave presentations. You can see what everyone’s presentations were on and more about them here. Great work to these individuals!

We are so excited to announce that SONIC Director Noshir Contractor has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Management! He is 1 of 10 fellows elected to this year’s class, and he will be honored formally on August 6 at the AOM Fellows Dinner. You can read more about this here. Congratulations Noshir!

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“!