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Noshir Contractor

Noshir Contractor

· Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering; Professor of Management & Organizations

Northwestern University · Management & Organizations

Active 1986–2025

h-index50
Citations14.1k
Papers35176 last 5y
Funding$4.1M1 active

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About

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. He is also the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group. His research has been at the forefront of three emerging interdisciplines: network science, computational social science, and web science. He investigates how social and knowledge networks form and perform across various contexts including business, scientific communities, healthcare, and space travel. Professor Contractor has been continuously funded for 25 years by the U.S. National Science Foundation, with additional funding from agencies such as the U.S. National Institutes of Health, NASA, DARPA, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the author of the book 'Theories of Communication Networks,' which received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association and the 2021 Fellows Book Award from the International Communication Association. He is a Fellow of multiple professional organizations, including the Academy of Management, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Network Science Society, and the International Communication Association. His academic background includes a Ph.D.…

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Political Science
  • Computer Security
  • Data science
  • Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Retrieval
  • Economics
  • Psychology
  • Data Mining

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Labs

  • Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research GroupPI

Education

  • Ph.D., Social Psychology

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    1993

  • M.S., Social Psychology

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    1989

  • B.A., Psychology

    University of Bombay

    1986

Awards & honors

  • 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communic…
  • 2021 Fellows Book Award from the International Communication…
  • Fellow of the Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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