Research Projects

• Ongoing Projects

National Science Foundation: SGER: Collaborative Research: Mapping and Analyzing Emergent Multiorganizational Networks in the Hurricane Katrina Response (2005-2006, SBE-0555115, $140,000). Principal Investigator on Collaborative Proposal with Carter Butts (University of California, Irvine).

National Science Foundation: Social Networking Tools to Enable Collaboration in the Tobacco Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Evaluation Network (TSEEN) (2005-2008, IIS- 0535214, $808,089). Principal Investigator on Collaborative Proposal submitted with Katy Börner (Indiana University), Tom Finholt (University of Michigan), and Gary Giovino (Roswell Park Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY).

National Cancer Institute: Socio-technical Specifications for the Design of a Cyberinfrastructure for a Tobacco Control Informatics Grid (ToBIG) (2005-2006, $50,000, via subcontract from Battelle Memorial Institute).

National Science Foundation: Workshop on “The Role of Social Network Research in Enabling Cyberinfrastructure and the Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Enabling Social Network Research” to be held November 3-5, 2005 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2005-2006, SCI-0533892, $50,000). Principal Investigator (Co-P.I.: Katy Börner, Indiana University).

National Science Foundation: 2006 International Workshop and Conference on Network Science to be held May 2006 at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. (2005-2006, SES-0532387, $77,714). Co-Principal Investigator (with Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dam and Katy Börner, Alex Vespignani, Stan Wasserman,  Indiana University).

Rockefeller Foundation, (CC 035): Mapping cultural and network assets in three Chicago communities(2005, $100,000). Principal Investigator (in collaboration with Dr. Alaka Wali, Field Museum, Chicago).
Press Release: http://press.arrivenet.com/edu/article.php/602508.html 

National Science Foundation: IT-Based Collaboration Framework for Preparing Against, Responding to, and Recovering from Disasters Involving Critical Physical Infrastructures, (2004-2009, $2,370,000).  Co-Principal Investigator in collaboration with Professors Feniosky Pena-Mora, Andrea B. Hollingshead, Gene E. Robinson, and Indranil Gupta at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Press Release: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0301disasterresearch.html

National Science Foundation/National Center for Supercomputing Application: Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC), (2003-2006), Principal Investigator.

University of Illinois Food Security Initiative: A Social Network Perspective to Analyze Food Security, (2004-2005, $100,000). Principal Investigator. 

Hewlett Packard Mobile Initiative Grant Program: Using mobile technologies (2002-2003, $140,760). Co-Principal Investigator. Co-PI (with Principal Investigator : Wen-Mei W. Hwu).

National Science Foundation: Digital Government: Workshop on US-Hungarian research collaborations to address the challenges of 21st century society (2003-2004, $50,000). Principal Investigator (in collaboration with Professor Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine).

National Science Foundation: SGER: Knowledge Networks and Emerging Heterarchies in Rebuilding New York (2002-2004, $42,908). Principal Investigator (in collaboration with  David Stark, Columbia University).

National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Modeling 21st Century Project Teams: Integrating Workflow and Knowledge Network Models of Organizing (2002-2003, No. 02-NASA-C-1513, $100,000).  Principal Investigator (Collaborative Proposal with Ray Levitt, Stanford University).

European Union Information Society & Technology Program (via subcontract from LUISS University, Rome). Developing web-based  knowledge asset mapping tools  to study the use of communication technologies in organizations  (2002-2003, 7000 Euros). Principal Investigator.

National Science Foundation, Co-evolution of Knowledge Networks and 21st Century Organizational Forms: Computational Modeling and Empirical Testing (1999-2001, $1,500,000). Principal Investigator, Award Number: NSF-IIS-9980109.
Press Release: http://www.admin.uiuc.edu/NB/99.11/intotechtip.html

National Science Foundation, The Sustainable Management of Civil Infrastructure: A Methodology and Tested to Bridge Information Technology and Application (1994-1998, $1,268,403). Co-Principal Investigator, Award Number: ECS-9422730.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, A Curriculum in Communication and the Global Workplace (1998-1999, $10,000). Principal Investigator. Final Report. Press Release: http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Nosh/media/CIC.pdf

Annenberg Center for Communication, Interactive Communication and Computing for Virtual Work Communities (1995-1997, $160,970). Co-Principal Investigator.

Steelcase, Inc. The Effects of Cooperative and Competitive Physical Environments and Communication on Negotiation Outcomes in Ultimatum and Communication Games (1996-1998, $96,586).  (Consultant; P.I.S: Peter Monge, Janet Fulk, Arthur Baskin).

U.S. Department of Education: Adaptive Network Library Interface (1991, $6,000). Co-Principal Investigator; Award Number: R197D10033.

Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group: Modeling the Use of Groupware as a Self-organizing System (1990, $205,000).  Principal Investigator.

University of Illinois, Silicon, Carbon, Culture Initiative (2003, $30,000). Walking through Knowledge Networks. Principal Investigator (Collaborative Proposal with Professors Narendra Ahuja and  Michael Twidale).

Center For Human Resource Management: Using Technologies to Support and Enhance Organizational Knowledge Networks (2002-2003,  $10,000). Principal Investigator, with Andrea Hollingshead.

UIUC Educational Technologies Board: Virtual Digital Portfolio (1998-1999, $6000). Principal Investigator.

National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Software Development Group: Development of a Collaboration Workbench for the NCSA Software Development Group (1996-1997, $49,722). Principal Investigator with Barbara O’Keefe and Patricia Jones.

Machine Tool Agile Manufacturing Research Institute, Evaluation of a virtual organization (1996-1997, $35,000). Principal Investigator with Barbara O’Keefe and Patricia Jones.

Advanced Learning Technologies in Higher Education, University of Illinois: A Curriculum in Organizational Communication and Technology Applications of Advanced Collaboration Tools to Support Cooperative Learning and Shared Instruction in Communication Studies (1997,  $52,600). Principal Investigator with Barbara O’Keefe.

Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments: Collaboration Support for Senior Design Teams in Engineering (1995-1996, $56,202). Principal Investigator with Peter DeLisle, Elizabeth Faye, Barbara O'Keefe.