Social-distancing and self-quarantine measures taken in the wake of COVID-19, along with the job losses and economic uncertainty people are facing, drove IUNI Advisory Council Member Brea Perry (IUB Sociology) to consider the mental health consequences of the pandemic. In a recent news story from IU’s Precision Health Initiative, Perry talked about why the research… Read more »

Erin Pullen came to the IU Network Science Institute in 2015 from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, where she worked as an assistant professor. She received both her PhD and Master’s degrees in Sociology from the University of Kentucky. Pullen’s research is primarily egocentric and focuses on medical sociology and health disparities. She works to… Read more »

Xiaoran Yan, an assistant research scientist at the IU Network Science Institute, joined the team after serving as a postdoctoral research associate in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.  Yan’s theoretical interests remain on mathematical theories and models of networks, focusing on community structures and dynamical processes on networks. Yan received… Read more »

Alice Patania joined the IU Network Science Institute as a research scientist in 2017. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics at Politecnico di Torino while working at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy.  In this Q&A, Patania shares why she decided to take her theoretical mathematics background into the world of complex systems, data… Read more »

The IU Network Science Institute recently welcomed its inaugural class of IUNI Fellows, a group of postdoctoral scholars who are working in cross-cutting and cutting-edge areas of networks research.  At IUNI, we talk openly and often about the research each of our team members is working on in hopes of sparking new collaborations and sharing… Read more »

On Oct. 4, Brian Nosek came to Indiana University to discuss the big challenges around improving transparency and reproducibility in research, as well as steps the scientific community can take to shift research culture in that direction.  Nosek, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and the co-founder and executive director of the Center… Read more »

Science Genome, a project that will translate the fundamental questions of how scientific fields and discoveries evolve using new statistical and analytical methods, has received its Minerva Research Initiative funding.  YY Ahn (IUB Informatics), the project’s lead, says the project is ramping up with new students, computing resources, and help from IUNI, whose team will… Read more »