HONORS AND AWARDS
Top Paper award in the IT Innovation for Change in Healthcare track at the HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS) 2013.
Article of the Year Award, Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2012
Top Paper Award, The 3rd International ACM Web Science Conference, 2011.
Best Paper Award, Rutgers University’s Game Behind the Game Conference, 2011.
Honorary Professor, School of Business, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2010.
Top Paper Award, International Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, 2010.
International Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, 2010.
Carolyn Dexter Award Nominee, Paper presented at the annual convention of the Academy of Management conference, 2010.
Invited Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2011-2012.
Dissertation Co-Adviser, David Huffaker, Winner of the Dordick Dissertation Award from the Communication & Technology Division of the International
Communication Association, 2010
Top Conference Paper INGRoup – Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research, 2009.
Top Conference Paper Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, 2008.
Director, Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, funded
renewal for a second year, 2006-2007.
Resident Associate & Co-Director, Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2006.
Co-author, of chapter in a book that won the 2006 Ernest Bormann Research Award from the Group Communication Division of the National Communication
Association: Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. The network perspective on small groups: Theory and research in Poole, M. S. &
Hollingshead, A.B. (Eds.) Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 277-312). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 2006.
Honorary Professor, University of Science and Technology of China. Hefei, China, 2004.
Dissertation Advisor, Edward Palazzolo, winner of Honorable Mention for the International Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Redding
Dissertation Award Competition, 2004.
Beckman Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003-2004.
Outstanding Research Award, Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2003.
Research Award, Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association, Book of the Year Award for Theories of Communication Networks,
co-authored with Peter Monge, 2003.
Outstanding Member Award, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association, 2000.
Award for Excellence in Distance Education, Purdue University, 2000.
International Communication Association, Top Conference Paper Organizational Communication Division, 2000.
Incomplete List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, 1987-1998, 2000, 2001-2003.
International Communication Association, Top Conference Paper Organizational Communication Division, 1998.
International Communication Association, Top Conference Paper Organizational Communication Division, 1997.
International Communication Association, Top Conference Paper Communication and Technology Division, 1993.
Speech Communication Association, Top Conference Paper Organizational Communication Division, 1993.
International Communication Association, Top Conference Paper Organizational Communication Division, 1988.
Speech Communication Association, Top Conference Paper Organizational Communication Division, 1988.
Institute Gold Medal for outstanding achievement. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1983.
National Merit Scholarship, Indian School Certificate, Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, Government of India, 1978.
