Noshir Contractor co-authored a paper titled, “Generative Modeling of Human Behavior and Social Interactions Using Abductive Analysis”, with Yihui Ren, Vanessa Cedeno-Mieles, Zhihao Hu, Xinwei Deng, Abhjijin Adiga, Christopher Barrett, Saliya Ekanayake, Joshua Epstein, Brian Goode, Gizem Korkmaz, Christopher Kuhlman, Dustin Machi, Michael Macy, Madhav Marathe, Naren Ramakrishnan, Sekharipuram Ravi, Parang Saraf and Nathan Self.… Read the rest

Noshir Contractor’s presentation, titled “Deep Space Collaboration: Impact of Social Networks on Task Switching in Collaborative Work”, was co-authored with Alina Lungeanu, Patrick Park, and Leslie A. DeChurch.  This was presented at a NetSci 2018 satellite workshop in Paris, France on June 12, 2018. … Read the rest

Noshir Contractor presents a paper (co-authored with Michael Schultz) titled “Communicating through space and over time” at ICA 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Schultz, M., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2018, May). Communicating through space and over time. Paper to be presented at the 68th Annual ICA conference, “Voices,” Prague, Czech Republic.… Read the rest

Noshir Contractor’s presentation at the Computational Social Science Luncheon at Northwestern University on May 21, 2018 was titled “Some Assembly Required: Teaming in the 21st Century”.… Read the rest

Yuan successfully defended his dissertation titled “Inference in heterogeneous network”.  His research leverages meta data, namely node attributes and dyadic attribute, and topology to infer the role that a node plays in the network.  His committee consisted of Noshir Contractor, Wenxin Jiang, and Bruce Spencer. … Read the rest

Alexandros successfully defends his dissertation titled “Essays in Machine Learning, Social Networks and Marketing”.  He designed novel distributed optimization algorithms and investigated problems that lie at the interface of social networks, and marketing, with an emphasis on customer retention and new product adoption.… Read the rest