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Research

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Externally Funded Research

National Science Foundation: VOSS: Understanding and Enabling Network Dynamics in Virtual Communities (2008-2011, $299,269). Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Coupled Models of Diffusion and Individual Behavior Over Extremely Large Social networks (2009-2013, $267,201). Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Social Networking Tools to Enable Collaboration in the Tobacco Surveillance Epidemiology, and Evaluation Network (TSEEN) (2007-2010, $575,624). Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation: CMS-ITR for National Priorities (2007-2009, $125,210).
Univ. Of Texas (NIH): Analysis, Visualization & Interpretation to Evaluate Redes En Accion: National Hispanic/Latino Cancer Network (2007-2010, $166,226). Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: DHB Virtual Worlds: An Exploratorium for Theorizing and Modeling the Dynamics of Group Behavior (2007-2010, $582,944). Principal Investigator
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Mapping, Understanding and Enabling the Digital Media Learning (DML) Knowledge Networks: An Exploratory Investigation (2007-2010, $140,000). Principal Investigator
NIH/NCRR: Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NU-CATS) (2008-2013, $705,711). Principal Investigator
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Virtual Worlds: An Exploration for Theorizing and Modeling the Dynamics of Group Behavior (2008-2011, $329,326). Principal Investigator
Army research Laboratory (sub contract from BBN Technologies): Integrated Research Center for Network Sciences Collaborative Technology Alliance (2010-2014, $628,905).
Army Research Laboratory (sub contract from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Information Network Academic Research Center: An Integrated Approach Towards Information Integration, Modeling, Retrieval, and Discovery (2009-2013, $650,002).
IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity)-sub-award from USC: The Virtual World Observatory: Identifying Real World (RW) Characteristics from Virtual Behavior (2009-2012, $513,836).
National Science Foundation: CI-KNOW Cyberinfrastructure Tools to Enable Knowledge Network Discovery, Diagnosis and Design (2007-2008, $199,619). Principal Investigator
MacArthur Foundation: Mapping, Understanding and Enabling the Digital Media Learning Knowledge Networks: An Exploratory Investigation (2007-2008, $140,000). Principal Investigator.
National Institute of Health (via sub contract from University of Texas San Antonio): Mapping, Understanding and Enabling the Redes en Accion Latino Cancer Network. (2007-2008, $56,000). Principle Investigator.
National Science Foundation: Virtual Worlds: An Exploratorium for Theorizing and Modeling the Dynamics of Group Behavior (2007-2010, $750,000). Principal Investigator on Collaborative Proposal with Scott Poole (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota) and Dmitri Williams (University of Southern California).
National Cancer Institute, Tobacco Informatics Grid (TobIG): Development of prototype to demonstrate distributed collaboration and data analysis within the tobacco research community (2006-2007, $400,000 administered via a supplement from NCI to NSF Grant IIS-0535214). Principal Investigator.
National Science Foundation: Instrumenting behaviors and attitudes in virtual worlds (2005-2006, IIS 06-28036, $155,851). Co-Principal Investigator on Collaborative Proposal with Dmitri Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) and Dan Hunter (University of Pennsylvania).
National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Mapping and Analyzing Emergent Multiorganizational networks in the Hurricane Katrina Response (2005-2006, SBE-0555115, $140,000). Principal Investigator on Collaborative Proposal with Carter Butts (University of California, Irvine).
National Science Foundation, SGER: Collaborative Research: Mapping and Analyzing Emergent Multiorganizational networks in the Hurricane Katrina Response (2005-2006, SBE-0555115, $140,000). Principal Investigator on Collaborative Proposal with Carter Butts (University of California, Irvine).
National Science Foundation, Social Networking Tools to Enable Collaboration in the Tobacco Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Evaluation Network (TSEEN) (2005-2008, IIS- 0535214, $808,089). Principal Investigator on Collaborative Proposal submitted with Katy Börner (Indiana University), Tom Finholt (University of Michigan), and Gary Giovino (Roswell Park Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY)
National Cancer Institute, Socio-technical Specifications for the Design of a Cyberinfrastructure for a Tobacco Control Informatics Grid (2005-2006, $50,000, via subcontract from Battelle Memorial Institute).
National Science Foundation, Workshop on “The Role of Social Network Research in Enabling Cyberinfrastructure and the Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Enabling Social Network”, Held on November 3-5, 2005 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2005-2006, SCI-0533892 , $50,000). Principal Investigator (Co-P.I.: Katy Börner, Indiana University).
National Science Foundation, 2006 International Workshop and Conference on Network Science, To be held May 2006 at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. (2005-2006, SES-0532387, $77,714). Co-Principal Investigator (with Laszlo Barabasi, Harvard University and Katy Börner, Alex Vespignani, Stan Wasserman, Indiana University).
Rockefeller Foundation, (CC 035): Mapping cultural and network assets in three Chicago communities (2005). $100,000. Principal Investigator (in collaboration with Dr. Alaka Wali, Field Museum, Chicago).
National Science Foundation/National Center for Supercomputing Application: Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) (2003-2006). Principal Investigator.
Hewlett Packard Mobile Initiative Grant Program: Using mobile technologies. $140,760. Investigator. Co-PI (with Principal Investigator : Wen-Mei W. Hwu).
National Science Foundation, ITR: IT-Based Collaboration Framework for Preparing Against, Responding to, and Recovering from Disasters Involving Critical Physical Infrastructures, (CMS-0427089, 2004-2009). $2,370,000. Co-Principal Investigator. In collaboration with Professors Feniosky Pena-Mora, Andrea B. Hollingshead, Gene E. Robinson, and Indranil Gupta at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Press Release
National Science Foundation, Digital Government: Workshop on US-Hungarian research collaborations to address the challenges of 21st century society. $97,702. Principal Investigator (Collaborative Proposal with Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine).
National Science Foundation, SGER: Knowledge Networks and Emerging Heterarchies in Rebuilding New York (2002-2003). $42,908. Principal Investigator (Collaborative Proposal with David Stark, Columbia University).
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Modeling 21st Century Project Teams: Integrating Workflow and Knowledge Network Models of Organizing (2002-2003, No. 02-NASA-C-1513,. $100,000), Principal Investigator (Collaborative Proposal with Ray Levitt, Stanford University).
European Union Information Society & Technology Program (via subcontract from LUISS University, Rome). Developing web-based knowledge asset mapping tools to study the use of communication technologies in organizations (2002-2003). (7000 Euros). Principal Investigator.
National Science Foundation, Co-evolution of Knowledge Networks and 21st Century Organizational Forms: Computational Modeling and Empirical testing. 1999-2001, $1,500,000 (Principal Investigator, Award Number: NSF-IIS-9980109). Press Release.
National Science Foundation, The Sustainable Management of Civil Infrastructure: A Methodology and Testbed to Bridge Information Technology and Application, 1994-1998, $ 1,268,403 (Co-Principal Investigator, Award Number: ECS-9422730).
Committee on Institutional Cooperation, A Curriculum in Communication and the Global Workplace, 1998-1999, $10,000. (Principal Investigator). Final Report. Press Release.
Annenberg Center for Communication, Interactive Communication and Computing for Virtual Work Communities, 1995-1997, $160,970 (Co-Principal Investigator). Press Release.
Steelcase, Inc. The Effects of Cooperative and Competitive Physical Environments and Communication on Negotiation Outcomes in Ultimatum and Communication Games. 1996-1998, $96,586 (Consultant; P.I.S: Peter Monge, Janet Fulk, Arthur Baskin).
U.S. Department of Education: Adaptive Network Library Interface, 1991, $6,000 (Co-Principal Investigator; Award Number: R197D10033).
Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group: Modeling the Use of Groupware as a Self-organizing System, 1990, $205,000 (Principal Investigator).

Internally Funded Research

University of Illinois Food Security Initiative: A Social Network Perspective to Analyze Food Security, 2003-2004, $10,000. Principal Investigator.
University of Illinois Silicon, Carbon, Culture Initiative (2003). $30,000. Walking through Knowledge Networks. Principal Investigator (Collaborative Proposal with Professors Narendra Ahuja and Michael Twidale).
Center For Human Resource Management: Using Technologies to Support and Enhance Organizational Knowledge Networks, 2002-2003. $10,000. Principal Investigator, with Andrea Hollingshead.
UIUC Educational Technologies Board: Virtual Digital Portfolio, 1998-1999, $6000 (Principal Investigator).
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Software Development Group: Development of a Collaboration Workbench for the NCSA Software Development Group 1996-1997, $49,722 (Principal Investigator with Barbara O’Keefe and Patricia Jones).
Machine Tool Agile Manufacturing Research Institute, Evaluation of a virtual organization. 1996-1997, $35,000 (Principal Investigator with Barbara O’Keefe and Patricia Jones).
Advanced Learning Technologies in Higher Education, University of Illinois: A Curriculum in Organizational Communication and Technology Applications of Advanced Collaboration Tools to Support Cooperative Learning and Shared Instruction in Communication Studies. 1997, $52,600. (Principal Investigator with Barbara O’Keefe).
Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments: Collaboration Support for Senior Design Teams in Engineering, 1995-1996, $56,202. (Principal Investigator with Peter DeLisle, Elizabeth Faye, Barbara O'Keefe.