Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Sandra González-Bailón is an Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, and affiliated faculty at the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences. Prior to joining Penn, she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (2008-2013), where she is now a Research Associate. She completed her doctoral degree in Nuffield College (University of Oxford) and her undergraduate studies at the University of Barcelona.
Her research lies at the intersection of network science, data mining, computational tools, and political communication. She leads the research group DiMeNet –acronym for Digital Media, Networks, and Political Communication. She is currently working on the book Decoding the Social World. When Data Science meets Communication, forthcoming with MIT Press. Title of her talk: Roles and Brokerage in Large Communication Networks |
Nicola perra
Nicola Perra serves as Associate Research Scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 2011. In 2009 he joined the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University as a Research Associate. From September 2011 until August 2014 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Technical Systems at Northeastern University. He research focuses on human dynamics, big-data analytics, and mathematical/digital epidemiology.
His research has been published in 33+ peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and books chapters receiving 1000+ citations (Google Scholar). He is the editor of the forthcoming book Social Phenomena: From Data To Models (Springer, 2015), and the organizer of several workshops on human dynamics, social modeling and temporal networks hosted in major international conferences in Physics, Network Science, and Computer Science. Title of his talk: Modeling and predicting contagion phenomena |
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University.
He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in communities. Specifically, his research team is developing and testing theories and methods of network science to map, understand and enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, science and engineering communities, disaster response teams and more. Professor Contractor holds a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras (Chennai). He was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for twenty years prior to joining Northwestern in 2007. Title of his talk: TBA |
Jose J. Ramasco
Jose Javier Ramasco is a Ramon y Cajal reseacher at IFISC (Insitute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems) in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, associated to the University of the Balearic Islands.
His interests lie in the general field of Complexity. In particular, in the study of Complex Networks and their use to better understand real world complex systems, including Internet use and Online Social Networks, Epidemic spreading and Transport and spatial systems. Title of his talk: TBA |