Noshir Contractor Serves as Keynote Speaker at ARS 2015 Workshop

2015-05-12Posted inBlog, SONIC News

ARS 2015

At the ARS 2015 in Anacapri, Italy on April 29th, Noshir Contractor was the keynote speaker for the Large Networks and Big Data Workshop. His speech was titled “Leveraging Network Science to Address Great Societal Challenges”. Topics included how network science is the solution to making sense of big data and monitoring and anticipating global problems to design effective solutions.… Read the rest

Noshir Contractor Delivers Presentation at Northwestern University Office for Sponsored Research

2015-04-01Posted inBlog, SONIC News
At the Northwestern Office for Sponsored Research (NU OSR) in Evanston, Illinois on February 27th, Noshir Contractor delivered a Brown Bag presentation titled “Using Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges”. The office is Northwestern’s arm for assisting and developing funded programs in support of the university’s research mission. […]

Noshir Contractor Gives Talk at Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium

2015-03-31Posted inBlog, SONIC News
At the 2015 Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS 2015) in Doha, Qatar, Noshir Contractor delivered a talk titled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges” on March 10th. The symposium was co-organized by Boeing and the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Learn more about the symposium and […]

2015 Computational Social Science Conference Coming to NU

2015-03-06Posted inBlog, SONIC News
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is hosting the Computational Social Science Conference from May 15th to 17th. The purpose of the summit is to advance sociological knowledge through computational methods. The conference will host workshops, a datathon, and prominent speakers such as David Ferrucci (Bridgewater Associates), Katy Börner (Indiana […]

Noshir Contractor Delivers Keynote Address at nPOD

2015-03-05Posted inBlog, SONIC News
At the nPOD Annual Conference on February 22nd in St. Pete Beach, Florida, Noshir Contractor delivered the keynote address on “The Science of Team Science” in the biomedical field. The agenda of the conference elaborated: “To learn about how collaborations work, we have one of the country’s experts on the […]

SONIC Proudly Welcomes New Postdoc, Ivan Hernandez

2015-01-20Posted inBlog, News, SONIC News
Ivan Hernandez is a collaborative post-doctoral researcher at Northwestern University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida, and his PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently working on the Gates Project here at SONIC. [...]