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 »
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Xiaoran Yan Q&A: Discovering the value of data and interdisciplinary research
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 Q&A: Translating theoretical insights into complex networks & systems solutions
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 »
Meet the IUNI Fellows
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 »
Brian Nosek speaks on creating culture of open, reproducible research
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 »
AccelNet-MultiNet: Launching a new international collaboration to advance multilayer network science
Today the IU Network Science Institute and the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University are pleased to announce AccelNet-MultiNet, a new collaboration to strengthen and expand the international community of network science researchers working in the area of multilayer networks. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, heavily integrates four European partner organizations: Universitat… Read more »
Mark your calendars for Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference!
IUNI is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting this historic joint conference, merging the annual meetings Sunbelt and NetSci! Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference July 6-11, 2021 in Washington, DC (Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill) http://networks2021.net The leadership of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) and the Network… Read more »
New BotSlayer tool identifies bot-led misinformation campaigns
The newest tool in the Observatory on Social Media’s (OSoMe) toolbox has arrived. The research center just launched an open beta version of BotSlayer for the public to try. BotSlayer, which expands off of the OSoMe tool Bot Electioneering Volume (BEV), can identify bot campaigns on Twitter before they escalate. But while BEV was created… Read more »
Science Genome receives Minerva funding
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 »
IU study about reducing mental illness stigma amplified online
A study published by IU researchers earlier this month got a lot of attention for being the first of its kind in researching ways to combat stigma around mental illness in university settings. IU News reported that Bernice Pescosolido, distinguished professor of sociology at IU and advisory council member and founding co-director at IUNI, and… Read more »