The SONIC Speaker Series presents
Director, Center for Engagement and Social Analytics IBM
SONIC Lab is proud to welcome N. Sadat Shami of IBM. Dr. Shami will speak on Monday, February 26th, 2017 at 10 AM in Frances Searle Building, Room 1-483.… Read the rest
The SONIC Speaker Series presents
Management Science & Engineering Stanford University
SONIC Lab is proud to welcome Johan Ugander of Stanford University. Dr. Ugander will speak on Tuesday, February 6th, 2017 at 10 AM in Frances Searle Building, Room 1-483.… 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
Jackie successfully defended her dissertation titled “Teams and Organizing in the Digital Age: How Team Networks Form and Why They Perform”. Her research explores the relationship between how teams form and what they need to perform, highlighting a paradox between what teams do and what they ought to do. … Read the rest
A recent research by Spencer Wheatley at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and a few colleagues shows that the key measure of value for cryptocurrencies is the network of people who use them. What’s more, they say, once Bitcoin is valued in this way it becomes possible to see when it is overvalued and perhaps even to spot the telltale signs that a market crash is imminent.… Read the rest
“It’s Nicky Case!” is a cool website where you can play different kinds of games related to network concepts such as complex contagion and small-world networks. Moreover, there are other games for game theory and theory of voting. Check out the website (http://ncase.me/)!… Read the rest
Despite a resurgence of research on negative ties in social networks, a comprehensive understanding of negative and positive has yet to be provided. Incorporating evidence from prior 163 independent samples we examine whether the initiation of positive and negative relationships (i.e., out-degree) or the reception of positive and negative relationships (i.e., in-degree) is more impactful to the focal employee’s effectiveness.… Read the rest
Koustav Rudra joins SONIC as a post-doctoral researcher, following completion of his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He will contribute his text analytic skills to various projects at SONIC.… Read the rest
On April 25th 2018, Noshir Contractor participated in ceremonies to induct IIT Madras’ Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence as the first member of the Web Science Trust Network (WSTNet) of laboratories from India. https://rbc-dsai.iitm.ac.in/events/2018/04/25/Launch-Webscience-trust-network.html
