Sep 6, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
Penn Ph.D. student Xinlan Emily Hu leads a group of budding engineers and social scientists who study communication across teams. The group has developed a new toolkit aimed at helping researchers analyze and measure teamwork. A group of graduate and undergraduate...
Sep 5, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
The Center will bring together six schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University T he University of Pennsylvania today announced $10 million in funding dedicated to its new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. The Center...
Aug 29, 2024 | Featured, News
PIK professor Duncan Watts is out with an AI-enhanced tool to gauge the partisan lean and tone of some mainstream news outlets. When Duncan Watts and his colleagues at Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab began work in January on a new tool that uses artificial...
Aug 13, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
Emily Hu, a fourth year Wharton Operations, Information, and Decisions PhD student at the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab), has just launched her award-winning Team Communication Toolkit at the Academy of Management Conference on August 12 in Chicago. This...
Jul 29, 2024 | COVID Philadelphia, Featured, News
Epidemic modeling is a framework for evaluating the location and timing of disease transmission events, and is a part of the larger field of human mobility science. The COVID-19 pandemic put existing epidemic models to the test, with many institutions and corporations...