Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
He investigates factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, translational science and engineering communities, public health networks and virtual worlds.
Education/Academic qualification
Communication, PhD, University of Southern California
… → 1987
Communication, MA, University of Southern California
… → 1986
Electrical Engineering, BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai)
… → 1983
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Electric network analysis
Engineering & Materials Science
Communication
Engineering & Materials Science
Telecommunication networks
Engineering & Materials Science
communication
Social Sciences
Social sciences
Engineering & Materials Science
Health
Engineering & Materials Science
social network
Social Sciences
Data storage equipment
Engineering & Materials Science
Network
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Grants 2007 2023
ANN SONIC NICO Workshop on Brain Science and Social Networks
9/1/18 → 10/18/19
Project: Research project
Brain
Circuit theory
Project FUSION: Facilitating Unified Systems of Interdependent Organizational Networks
Contractor, N. & DeChurch, L. A.
University of Georgia, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2/12/18 → 2/12/21
Project: Research project
Contractors
Earth (planet)
Concretes
Contractor: Team Task Switching in Astronaut Crews on the International Space Station: Integrating Multiteam Membership, Multiteam Systems, multi-tasking, & Multidimensional Networks to Monitor & Enable Functional Work Shifts in Astronaut Crews
NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
11/9/17 → 11/8/23
Project: Research project
Multitasking
Space stations
Contractors
Switches
NASA
Contractor: SCALE: Shared Cognitive Architectures for Long-term Exploration
NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
11/9/17 → 11/8/20
Project: Research project
Contractors
Orbits
Earth (planet)
Industrial engineering
NASA
Novel approaches to measuring demand-side community perceptions and barriers to family planning via social network analysis
George Washington University, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2/2/17 → 12/31/18
Project: Research project
Electric network analysis
Planning
Contractors
Macros
Research Output 1986 2019
Seniors’ usage of mobile social network sites: Applying theories of innovation diffusion and uses and gratifications
Kim, M. J., Lee, C. K. & Contractor, N., Jan 1 2019, In : Computers in Human Behavior. 90, p. 60-73 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Diffusion of Innovation
Social Support
Innovation
Mobile devices
Theoretical Models
A Network-Based Approach to Modeling and Predicting Product Coconsideration Relations
Sha, Z., Huang, Y., Fu, J. S., Wang, M., Fu, Y., Contractor, N. & Chen, W., Jan 1 2018, In : Complexity. 2018, 2753638.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Modeling
Engineering design
Network model
Choice modelling
Predictive power
Generative modeling of human behavior and social interactions using abductive analysis
Ren, Y., Cedeno-Mieles, V., Hu, Z., Deng, X., Adiga, A., Barrett, C., Ekanayake, S., Goode, B. J., Korkmaz, G., Kuhlman, C. J., Machi, D., Marathe, M. V., Ramakrishnan, N., Ravi, S. S., Sarat, P., Selt, N., Contractor, N., Epstein, J. & Macy, M. W., Oct 24 2018, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018. Tagarelli, A., Reddy, C. & Brandes, U. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 413-420 8 p. 8508282Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
abduction
Social sciences
social science
Image understanding
process analysis
How Team Interlock Ecosystems Shape the Assembly of Scientific Teams: A Hypergraph Approach
Lungeanu, A. I., Carter, D. R., DeChurch, L. A. & Contractor, N., Feb 19 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Communication Methods and Measures. p. 1-25 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Ecosystems
teamwork
specialization
knowledge
Industry
IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2018: Message from the general chairs
Benito, R., Contractor, N. & Rokne, J., Oct 24 2018, In : Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018. p. xviii 8508737.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial