Thomas J. Allen

Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus.

Professor of Organization Studies

He also serves as co-director of the Lean Aerospace Initiative, a very large collaborative effort, involving government, industry, organized labor and MIT, to reduce the cost and improve the quality of aerospace system development and manufacture. Professor Allen served as Deputy Dean of the Sloan School of Management at MIT from 1993 to 1998.

Kai Fischbach

Professor, Chair in Information Systems and Social Networks

Kai Fischbach is Professor and Chair in Information Systems and Social Networks at University of Bamberg. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne (Germany). He is also Chief Scientist of software startup galaxyadvisors. His areas of expertise include the analysis of communication networks and the design of efficient information exchanges.

Cristobal Garcia

Assistant Professor, School of Business

Cristobal Garcia is Director of EmprendeUC and Assistant Professor of Innovation, Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship at the P. Universidad Catolica of Chile (PUC)’s School of Business. Cristobal is also Co-Director of the new PUC’s Innovation Master Program in collaboration with Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and Founder of both the Laboratory for Innovation (aka iLabUC), and the DO FUTURE program. Cristobal’s research areas are: interdisciplinary electronic networks in higher education, workplaces for innovation (forthcoming book), and education curricula for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Peter A. Gloor

Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT)

Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also Honorary Professor at University of Cologne, lecturer at Aalto University Helsinki and Distinguished Visiting Professor at P. Universidad Catolica of Chile. As Chief Creative Officer of software company galaxyadvisors he puts his theoretical insights into practice.

Julia Gluesing

Research Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Julia also serves as the Associate Director of the Institute for Information Technology and Culture (IITC), and is an adjunct professor of Anthropology. In her current assignment in Engineering, she is responsible for the development of a global engineering management masters program for working engineers.

Francesca Grippa

Assistant Professor, College of Professional Studies

Francesca Grippa's current activities combine strategic project management with Social Network Analysis (SNA) tools. She continues to publish and present internationally on innovative applications of SNA and the development of learning communities.

Caspar Lassenius

Professor, Software Business and Engineering Institute

Caspar studies software engineering from the process point of view, working in close cooperation with our industrial partners. He aims at performing empirical and constructive research that is of both high practical utility and academically rigorous. Recently, he focussed his research on software product development, agile methodologies, and global software development.

Rob Laubacher

Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence

Rob´s research looks at how information technology is transforming business organizations and how those changes were reshaping the employment contract. Rob published articles based on this work in academic venues and in Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times and Boston Globe. Rob has been quoted for ideas from this research on National Public Radio and in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Fast Company.

Christine Miller

Professor of Design Management

Her research interests include how sociality and culture influence the design of new products, processes and technologies. She also studies technology-mediated communication within groups, teams and networks and the emergence of technology-enabled collaborative innovation networks (COINs).

Keiichi Nemoto

Visiting Scholar, Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT)

Keiichi is a research scientist at Fuji Xerox, and currently a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He focuses on collaboration networks through the lens of social network analysis, using Wikipedias in different languages as a topic of analysis. He is also interested in the beauty of networks, visualizing collaboration, communication, and concept networks in Wikipedia.

Daniel Oster

Student, Department of Information Systems and Information Management

Daniel´s research interests are enterprise development and information management. He especially focuses on the impact of social networks on business performance. Levels of measurement are teams, branches/departments and intraorganizational communication. He also works for the Center for Social Network Analysis in Management and Society at University of Cologne.

Maria Paasivaara

Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Maria studies communication in innovation networks, concentrating especially on communication needs, practices, and problems in innovation networks. She has participated in several research projects studying networked product development and supply chain management. Her PhD thesis was on “Communication in Product Development Networks”.

Molly Pace-Scrivener

Project Specialist, C3N

Molly holds a BA in Organizational Communication with Research Methods from Xavier University. Currently, she is a project specialist for the Collaborative Chronic Care Network (aka the C3N Project), where she manages Team Science and works on coolhunting, email analysis/virtual mirroring, and social network analysis..

Shannon Provost

PhD Student, McCombs School of Business

Shannon Provost is a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin, building a research program at the intersection of information systems, the science of improvement, and innovation in health care delivery. Current projects include studies of social network analysis and communication structures with the Collaborative Chronic Care Network. She is also interested in complexity science, creativity, and communities-of-practice.

Ken Riopelle

Research Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Dr. Riopelle is a Research Professor at Wayne State University in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Detroit Michigan. His career spans thirty plus years in automotive consulting and has specialized in the diffusion of innovations in globally networked organizations. He was the Director of Research for Sandy Corporation.

Manfred Vogel

Head Computer Science Department

After studying electronic engineering, Manfred obtained a diploma as a mathematician from the ETH Zurich and a PhD in Physics. He worked for a decade as an astrophysics researcher, mainly on the theory of symbiotic binaries but also on satellite based observations e.g. with the Hubble Space Telescope. Becoming a full time professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland, he founded the Institute of 4D-Technologies, leading it until 2008. Since then he serves as the head of the Computer Science Department. His main research interests are optimization methods and machine learning algorithms.

Xue Zhang

PhD Student, NUDT Changsha

Xue is studying communication patterns to predict the performance and creativity of groups of teams, ranging from small teams to large online communities.