Noshir Contractor
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October 16, 1959
Noshir Contractor | |
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.jpg) Contractor in 2007 | |
| Born | Noshir S. Contractor October 16, 1959 Chakardharpur, India |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of Southern California |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organizational communication, Network science, Computational social science |
| Institutions | Northwestern University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Indian Institute of Technology University of Southern California |
| Thesis | A dynamic reformulation of perceptions of inequity: Their organizational antecedents and outcomes (1988) |
| Website | nosh |
Noshir S. Contractor is an Indian-American network scientist who 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 and the director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group[1] at Northwestern University. He is also the former President of the International Communication Association (ICA) and the current Executive Director of the Web Science Trust.[2]
Contractor completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in communication at the University of Southern California in 1987. Prior to this he received a Master of Arts in Communication also from USC in 1986 and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras[3] (Chennai) in 1983.
