With external and internal grants, NULab core faculty conduct cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research in a wide range of disciplines.
External Grants
Cassie McMillian, Wade Jacobsen, and Nayan Ramirez. “The impact of longitudinal social networks on young adult substance use and misuse.” National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2023-2025.
Cody Dunne, Deniz Erdogmus, Ozlem Ergun, Mirek Riedewald, and Silvio Amir. “Supply Chain Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Platform (SCRIMP).” U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), 2023-2024.
Dan O’Brien, Nigel Jacob, and Sandy Pentland. “Human Networks and Data Science Infrastructure.” National Science Foundation, 2023-2025.
K.J. Rawson and Marika Cifor. “Developing a Spanish Language Homosaurus: Using Multilanguage Linked Data to Enhance LGBTQ+ Resource Discoverability.” National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Grant, 2023-2026.
Moira Zellner, Asaf Levanon, Tally Katz-Gerro, Maya Negev (U. of Haifa), and Laura Kuh. “Collaborative Research: Equitable resilience to heat: Modeling the consequences of community coordination and heat policy in two coastal cities.” BSF, 2023-2026.
Moira Zellner, Krista Harper, Camille Barchers, and others (UMass-Amherst). “EPA STAR: Community-Engaged Co-Design for a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition.” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2023-2024.
Moira Zellner, Steve Flynn, Rebecca Riccio, University of West Indies, and University of Hawai’i. “Advancing Community Climate Resilience Planning by Leveraging the Caribbean Islands Higher Education Resilience Consortium (CIHERC).” USAID, 2023-2025.
Myojung Chung. “Empowering Korea’s Diplomacy in the Age of Misinformation: Exploring Effective Literacy Initiatives to Combat False Narratives in Foreign Affairs.” Korea Foundation Next Generation Research Program, PI, 2023-2024.
Nabeel Gillani. “Applied Research on Intellectual Humility.” GSU and the Templeton Foundaton, 2023-2025.
Seo Eun Yang. “Artificial Intelligence to unpack the Dynamic Relationships between Media Narratives, Foreign Policy, and Public Opinion.” Transforming Interdisciplinary Experiential Research Grant, 2023.
Seo Eun Yang. “NeuroRace: The Neural Mechanisms of Biased Evaluations of Political Candidates.” Network Science Institute Seed Grant Program, 2023.
Alicia Modestino. “EDA Build Back Better Regional Challenge: Biomanufacturing.” Economic Development Administration, 2022-2023.
Alicia Modestino. “The Long-Term Impact of Summer Youth Employment Programs on Criminal Justice Outcomes.” Arnold Ventures, 2022-2023.
Brooke Foucalt Welles. “PIPP Phase 1: PILOT: Predictive Intelligence for Limiting Outbreak Threats.” National Science Foundation, 2022-2023.
Chris Parsons. “Humanities and the Digital Future of Health and Healthcare: A Curriculum.” National Endowment For The Humanities, 2022-2025.
Cody Dunne. “Advanced terrain analytics to support tactical scale planning and operations over varied environments in support of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center – Geospatial Research Laboratory.” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2022-2023.
Cody Dunne. “CAREER: General And Optimal Layered Network Visualization.” National Science Foundation, 2022-2027.
Cody Dunne. “Testing & Evaluation for Soldier-Device Teaming Compatibility, Vulnerability, and Durability in Emergent Situations.” Army Research Lab, 2022-2024.
Dan Cohen. “Community-Driven Digital Tools for Locally Managed Cultural Heritage Collections.” Mellon Foundation, 2022-2024.
Dan Cohen. “Enabling Collaboration in the Decentralized Research Enterprise.” Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2022-2024.
Dan Cohen. “Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community Archivist.” Mellon Foundation, 2022-2023.
Dan O’Brien. “Facilitating Civic Research Agendas.” Herman and Freida L Miller Foundation, 2022-2023.
Dan O’Brien. “Public Education in Urban Informatics: Pursuing Civic and Economic Inclusion.” Commonwealth of Massachusetts 2022-2024.
Dan O’Brien. “Uncovering Segregation, Climate Resilience, and Economic Development from Cell-Phone Records.” National Science Foundation, 2022-2025
David Smith. “Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) Phase II.” Andrew Mellon Foundation, 2022-2024.
Jessica Linker. “The Fruits of Their Labor: The Work of Early American Scientific Women, 1750-1860.” New-York Historical Society, 2022.
Julia Flanders (co-PI with Ellen Cushman). “DAILP: Cherokees Writing the Keetoowah Way.” National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 2022.
Julia Flanders (co-PI with Ellen Cushman). “Translating Cherokee Manuscripts: Creating a Writing Environment for DAILP.” National Endowment For The Humanities, 2022-2023.
Julia Flanders, Daniel Cohen, and Giordana Mecagni. “Boston Research Center: Phase III.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2022-2024.
K.J. Rawson. ” ‘Y’all Better Quiet Down!’ Trans BIPOC Digitization Initiative.” Council on Library and Information Resources Digitizing Hidden Collections:
Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant, 2022-2025.
Michelle Borkin. “Enriching Scholarly Communication with Augmented Reality.” National Science Foundation, 2022-2025.
Moira Zellner. “Initiative for Energy Justice in Building Decarbonization.” Justice40 Capacity Building Fund, 2022.
Moira Zellner. “Engaging a thriving community of practice in Earth-surface dynamics,” NSF Geoinformatics, 2022-2026.
Moira Zellner and Dan O’Brien. “CommonSENSES: Standards for ENacting Sensor networks for an Equitable Society.” AIA College of Fellow Latrobe Prize, 2022-2024.
Moira Zellner and Dan O’Brien. “Com-munity-Led, Science-Driven Climate Resilience in Boston, MA.” NSF SC&C, 2023-2025.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “URofL:EN: Does re-wilding lead to re-wiring of gene expression and species interaction networks?” National Science Foundation, 2022-2026.
Xuechen Chen and Xinchuchu Gao. “Understanding China’s Role as a Norm-Shaper in Cyberspace Governance.” The British Academy, 2022.
Alan Mislove. “REU Supplement for NSF 1916020 SaTc: CORE: Medium: Collaborative Research: Understanding and Mitigating the Privacy and Societal Risks of Advanced Advertising Targeting and Tracking.” National Science Foundation, 2021-2022.
Alicia Modestino. “Building a more holistic and inclusive workforce development system for Boston’s Youth.” American Institutes for Research and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2021-2024.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Code Contributions for Women in Network Science.” Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, 2021-2023.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Toxic-Free Footprints to Improve Community Health against Respiratory Hazards.” National Science Foundation, 2021.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Strengthening Teamwork for Robust Operations in Novel Groups (STRONG).” Army Research Laboratory, 2021.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Small: Collaborative Research: Catalyzing Youth Civic Engagement Through Innovations in Social Computing.” Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021.
Christo Wilson, David Lazer, and David Choffnes. “Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:IP): Observatory for Online Human and Platform Behavior.” National Science Foundation, 2021-2026.
Christo Wilson, Alicia Modestino, Stacy Marsella, Kemi Jona, and Mohsen Moghaddam. “FW-HTF-R: Fostering Learning and Adaptability of Future Manufacturing Workers with Intelligent Extended Reality (IXR).” National Science Foundation, 2021-2025.
Christo Wilson, Octavia Camps, Alicia Modestino, Stacy Marsella, Kemi Jona, and Mohsen Moghaddam. “FW-HTF-R: Fostering Learning and Adaptability of Future Manufacturing Workers with Intelligent Extended Reality (IXR).” National Science Foundation, 2021-2025.
Christoph Riedl and Wolfgang Gatterbauer. “SensIntel: Information Superiority through Data Fusion in Mini-Clouds.” KRI, 2021-2022.
Cody Dunne. “Solutions-Focused Research to Support Climate Adaptation and Mitigation.” Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 2021-2022.
Daniel T. O’Brien. “Helping Others Use Data to Build Back.” Herman and Freida L Miller Foundation, 2021-2022.
Daniel T. O’Brien and Nicholas Beauchamp. “Predicting the Next Outbreak [COVID-19]” Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), 2021-2022.
Julia Flanders. “Re-establishing and Sustaining a Working Ecology for Digital Humanities Scholarship.” NEH, 2021-2023.
Julia Flanders. “Research Infrastructure for Digital Scholarship.” National Endowment for The Humanities, 2021-2026.
Nicholas Beauchamp, Jason Radford, and Jon Green. “Automated Ethical Persuasion.” Data for Progress and Northeastern University Alpha Fund for early-stage commercial products, 2021.
Nicholas Beauchamp, Dan O’Brien, Cordula Robinson, and Ryan Wang. “Applying geo-spatio-temporal monitoring and mapping, with predictive analytics and privacy protection: Anticipating the next virus hot spot.” IARPA-BAA-20-01, 2021-2022.
Pedro Cruz. “Experience and Information Design for the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA).” Museum of Fine Arts, 2021.
Rahul Bhargava, Ethan Zuckerman, and Fernando Bermejo. “International Hate Observatory.” Knight Foundation via UMass Amherst, 2021-2023.
Sarah Kanouse, Nicholas Brown, and Elizabeth Solomon. “Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice.” New England Foundation for the Arts, 2021.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “A Causal Framework for Producing Compliant ML Models and Counterfactual Explanations for Credit and Lending Models via Aspirational and Real-World Data Sets.” J.P. Morgan Chase, 2021-2022.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “AutoCoMBOT: Autonomy in Cyberspace through robot learning and Man-BOt Teaming.” Army Research Office, 2021-2023.
Tina Eliassi-Rad and Dat Huynh. “J.P. Morgan AI Research PhD Fellowship Program – Harnessing Compositional Structures for Learning with Less Samples.” J.P. Morgan, 2021-2022.
Tina Eliassi-Rad and Sam Scarpino. “URofL:EN: Does re-wilding lead to re-wiring of gene expression and species interaction networks?” University of Connecticut, 2021-2026.
Uta Poiger, Angel Nieves, Kabria Baumgartner, and Dan Cohen. “Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community-Archivist.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2021-2023.
Alan Mislove and David Choffnes. “Transparency, Control, and Policy.” National Science Foundation, 2020-2025.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “2020 Greater Boston Housing Report Card.” The Boston Foundation, 2020.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “R3: Preserving Summer Employment Opportunities for Inner-City Youth during the COVID19 Pandemic [COVID-19].” Spencer Foundation, 2020.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “R3: Preserving Summer Employment Opportunities for Inner-City Youth during the COVID19 Pandemic [COVID-19].” William T. Grant Foundation, 2020.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “R3: Preserving Summer Employment Opportunities for Inner-City Youth during the COVID19 Pandemic – Phase 2 [COVID-19].” William T. Grant Foundation, 2020-2021.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “RAPID: Accelerating the Future of Work? Understanding Future Shifts in Technology Adoption in the Seafood Industry in Response to the COVID19 Pandemic [COVID-19].” National Science Foundation, 2020-2021.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Identification of Human Mobility Modes using Socio-Spatio-Temporal Predictive Models.” University of Rochester, 2020.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Reconsidering the Connections Between New Media, (In)equality, and Political Participation in the United States.” Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2020-2021.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Strengthening Teamwork for Robust Operations in Novel Groups (STRONG).” Army Research Laboratory, 2020-2021.
Cameron Blevins, Serena Parekh, and Liza Weinstein. “Engaging Geography in the Humanities.” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 2020.
Chris Parsons. “Towards a Digital Health Humanities Curriculum: Tools and Strategies.” National Endowment For The Humanities, 2020-2021.
Christo Wilson and Alan Mislove. “Auditing Pymetrics Models for Gender and Racial Bias.” Pymetrics, 2020.
Dan O’Brien. “Continuing to Bridge Digital Divides in Urban Informatics: Working with Public Schools and across Municipalities.” Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation, 2020-2021.
Dan O’Brien. “RAPID: Coronavirus and Urban Neighborhoods: Infection Transmission in an Inequitable, Networked Social Context [COVID-19].” National Science Foundation, 2020-2021.
David Smith. “Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora (ACDC): Aligning the Way to Improved Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for the Persian and Arabic Manuscript.” National Endowment for the Humanities, 2020-2022.
David Smith. “Optomizing BCI-FIT: Brain Computer Interface- Functional Implementation Toolkit.” National Institutes of Health, 2020-2025.
David Smith and Amiji Passas. “Collaborative Research: D-ISN: TRACK 2: Financial Network Disruptions (FND) in Illicit and Counterfeit Medicines Trade.” National Science Foundation, 2020-2022.
John P. Wihbey. “The Future of Local TV News: Applying Experimental Video Storytelling Research inside a Local Television Newsroom.” Stanton Foundation, 2020-2021.
Laura K. Nelson, Kathrin Zippel, and Alexander Gates. “Innovation Networks: The Creation and Diffusion of Gender Equity Ideas in Universities.” National Science Foundation, 2020.
Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey. “Visualizing the Evolution of Household Diversity in America.” National Geographic Headquarters, 2020.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “Courses of Action Over Incomplete Networks (COANET).” US Air Force/MIT Lincoln Laboratories, 2020-2021.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “Reclaiming Individual Autonomy and Democratic Discourse Online: How to Rebalance Human and Algorithmic Decision Making.” Volkswagen Foundation, 2020-2024.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “Scoping Out the Periodic Table of Food.” Rockefeller Foundation, 2020-2022.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “Security Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Discovery and Inventory Research.” PriceWater House, 2020.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “Courses of Action Over Incomplete Networks (COANET).” US Air Force/MIT Lincoln Laboratories, 2020-2021.
Alan Mislove, Aleksandra Korolova, and Jon Ullman. “SaTC: Core: Medium: Collaborative: Understanding and Mitigating the Privacy and Societal Risks of Advanced Advertising Targeting and Tracking.” National Science Foundation, 2019-2022.
Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, Dave Levin, Taejoong Chung, Bryan Parno, and Bruce Maggs. “CNS Core: Large: Collaborative Research: Towards an Evolvable Public Key Infrastructure.” National Science Foundation, 2019-2022.
Alan Mislove. “Understanding the Impact of Ad Preference Controls.” Research Grant, 2019.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “An Evaluation of Boston’s Tuition-Free Community College Program.” The Boston Foundation, 2019.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “From High School to Jobs: Exploring the Power of Varying Community College Pathways with Linked Wage Record Data.” MassInc, 2019-2020.
Alicia Sasser Modestino and Urbashee Paul. “Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Modestino and Paul.” William T. Grant Foundation, 2019-2021.
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Gary Young, and Muhammad Noor-E-Alam. “A Community Health Center Buyback Program to Reduce the Supply of Opioids to Secondary Users.” Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, 2019-2020.
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Gary Young, and Muhammad Noor-E-Alam. “Analysis of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Prescribing Patterns.” Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2019.
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Taskin Padir, Kristian Kloeckl, John Basl, and Kemi Jona. “Collaborative Robots to Impact Seafood Processing (CRISP): Designs, Tools, and Methods for Enhanced Worker Experience.” National Science Foundation, Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier Program, 2019-2023.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Supporting Hybrid Team Processes with Multi-Sensor Data from an Instrumented Smart Conference Room.” US Army Research Lab, 2019-2020.
Christo Wilson and David Choffnes. “2019 Android Security and Privacy REsearch project (ASPIRE).” Google, 2019.
Christo Wilson and Ronald Sandler. “Integrating Value Sensitive Design Training Throughout the CS Curriculum.” Mozilla Foundation, 2019-2020.
Christo Wilson. “CHS: Small: Auditing Critical Dependencies Between Online Media Platforms.” National Science Foundation, 2019-2022.
Christoph Riedl. “Strengthening Teamwork for Robust Operations in Novel Groups (STRONG).” Army Research Lab, 2019-2023.
Christoph Riedl and Brooke Foucault Welles. “Adaptive Intelligent Cognitive Agents to Enhance Performance in Face-to-Face and Virtual Teams.” Army Research Lab (ARL, STRONG Program), 2019-2020.
Christoph Riedl. “Resolving Organizational Inefficiencies Through Crowdsourcing.” Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) with 361 Interactive Inc. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2019-2023.
Daniel Cohen, Patrick Yott, and Julia Flanders. “Research Infrastructure for Digital Scholarship.” National Endowment for the Humanities Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Grant, 2019-2023.
Daniel T. O’Brien. “Catching up the Science of Problem Properties: The Microspatial Dynamics of Crime, Disorder, and Property Management.” National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Program, 2019-2021.
Dietmar Offenhuber. “Urbanism and the Environment.” Princeton Mellon Fellowship, 2019-2020.
Jen Schradie and Laura K. Nelson. “Startuper or Startupeuse? The General Constraints of Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy.” Fonds de Soutien a L’activite Scientifique, Sciences Po, 2019-2022.
Kathrin Zippel and Laura K. Nelson. “Diffusion of Ideas of Gender Equity Interventions Through Networks of U.S. Universities.” National Science Foundation, 2019-2020.
Meg Heckman and Jonathan Kaufman. “Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship via the Scope.” The Poynter Institute for Media Studies and the Charles Koch Institute, 2019.
Nicholas Beauchamp, Matthew Baum, David Lazer, Nir Grinberg, Briony Swire-Thompson, and Nic Dias. “Do Fact-Checks Slow the Spread of Misinformation on Facebook and Twitter?” Facebook/Social Science Research Council, 2019.
Nicholas Beauchamp, Donghee Jo, Kenneth Joseph, David Lazer, and Lu Wang. “Measuring the Effects of Peer Sharing on Fake and Polarized News Consumption.” Social Science Research Council, 2019.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “Controlling the Jekyll and Hyde of Artificial-Intelligence Assisted Information Architectures: Accepting Customization while Resisting Micro-targeted Manipulation.” Volkswagen Foundation, 2019-2020.
Alan Mislove. “Towards Privacy-Protecting Aggregate Statistics in PII-Based Targeted Advertising.” Facebook Secure the Internet Grant, 2018.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Identification of Human Mobility Modes using Socio-Spatio-Temporal Predictive Models.” US Army Research Office, 2018-2021.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Catalyzing Youth Civic Engagement Through Innovations in Social Computing.” National Science Foundation: CHS: Small: Collaborative Research, 2018-2021.
Christoph Riedl. “System for Group Learning and Optimization of Collaborative Workflows.” Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) with Charles River Analytics Inc. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2018-2022.
David Smith. “Improving Optical Character Recognition for Handwritten Marginalia.” National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, 2019-2020.
Jessica Silbey. “Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age.” Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018.
Julia Flanders and Sarah Connell. “Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist.” National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grant, 2019-2021.
Meg Heckman. “#MissionHill100 Prototype Tied to the Launch of the Boston Research Center.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2018.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “MACRO: Models for Enabling Continuous Reconfigurability of Secure Missions: Robustness to Adversarial Manipulations in Cyber Networks.” Army Research Lab, 20218-2023.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “P-CORE: Privacy-Enhanced Coordinated Enterprise Defense via Temporal and Topological Representation Learning.” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 2018-2022.
Alan Mislove. “Enabling Process Migration to Resources.” Amazon Web Services Research in Education Grant, 2017-2018.
Alan Mislove and Krishna P. Gummadi. “Increasing Transparency of Data Aggregation by Facebook and Partners.” Data Transparency Lab Research Ward, 2017-2018.
Christo Wilson, David Lazer, and Aniko Hannak. “Inequality in Online Labor Markets.” Russell Sage Foundation, 2017-2019.
David Smith and Ryan Cordell. “A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual OCR.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Program, 2017-2018.
Julia Flanders. “Mining Digital Humanities Citation.” National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Office of Digital Humanities (ODH), Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG), 2017-2018.
Julia Flanders, Moya Bailey, and Élika Ortega. “Design for Diversity.” Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Forums, 2017-2019.
Lu Wang. Unrestricted Gift from Tencent AI Lab, 2017-2018.
Lu Wang. Unrestricted Gift from Toutiao AI Lab, 2017-2018.
Lu Wang. NVIDIA GPU Grants, 2017.
Lu Wang, et al. “Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language (MATERIAL).” Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), 2017-2021.
Nick Beauchamp, David Lazer, and Alessandro Vespignani. “IARPA Hybrid Forecasting Competition.” Hughes Research Labs, MIT, Harvard, 2017-2018.
Ryan Cordell and David Smith. “Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks In Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914 (OcEx).” Transatlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities Digging Into Data, funded by the IMLS, 2017-2019.
Ryan Cordell and Ulrich Tiedau (UCL). “Seas and Currents.” University College London Global Engagement Office to support a Transatlantic Digitized Newspapers Symposium at the British Library, 2017.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “BIGDATA: F: Collaborative Research: Design and Computation of Scalable Graph Distances in Metric Spaces: A Unified Multiscale Interpretable Perspective.” National Science Foundation (Award #1741197), 2017-2021.
Tina Eilassi-Rad, Brooke Foucault Welles, Christoph Riedl, David Lazer, Alessandro Vespignani, Albert László Barabási, and Kate Coronges. “Advancing Human-based Modeling with Large-Scale High Performance Computing.” Office of Naval Research, 2017-2018.
Alan Mislove and David Choffnes. “A Principled Approach to Enabling Policy Transparency for Mobile Networks.” National Science Foundation CNS-1617728, NeTS: Small, 2016-2019.
Alan Mislove and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern). “Leveraging Personalized Internet Services to Combat Online Trolling.” National Science Foundation CNS-1616234, NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research, 2016-2019.
Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, Dave Choffnes, Dave Levin (UMD), and Tudor Dumitra (UMD). “Measuring and Improving the Management of Today’s PKI.” National Science Foundation CNS-1563320, TWC: Medium: Collaborative, 2016-2020.
Christo Wilson. “Towards Methodologies and Tools for Conducting Algorithm Audits.” National Science Foundation CAREER: IIS1553088, 2016–2021.
Christoph Riedl, Anita Woolley (CMU), Thomas Malone (MIT), and Michael Bernstein (Stanford). “Cultivating Collective Intelligence in Human-Computer Systems.” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2016-2017.
Christoph Riedl. “Large-Scale Online Collaboration in Hierarchical Networks.” Office of Naval Research (ONR), 2016-2019.
David Lazer. “Exploring Large-Scale Networks and Unobservable Counterfactuals.” Office of Naval Research, 2016-2017.
David Lazer. “Beyond the Cultural Horizon: Mapping Relational Norms within Societal Networks.” Army Research Institute (ARI), 2016-2019.
David Lazer. “Measuring Information Exposure in Dynamic & Dependent Networks (EXPONET).” Economic & Social Research Council, 2016-2018.
Jessica Silbey, Anjali Vats, Deirdre Keller, and Amit Basole. “Conference and Research Sponsorship for IP + Race.” Boston College Institute for Liberal Arts, 2016-2017.
Jessica Silbey, Peter DiCola, and Eva Subotnik. “Empirical Study of Intellectual Property, Photography, and Changing Aesthetic and Business Practices.” Innovation Grant from the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2016-2017.
Lu Wang. “Towards Abstractive Summarization of Meetings.” National Science Foundation CRII, 2016-2018.
Lu Wang. NVIDIA GPU Grants, 2016.
Moya Bailey. Arcus Queer Campus Community Project Grant Faculty Mentor, 2016-2017.
Nick Beauchamp, David Lazer, and Alex Vespignani. “SIGINT-Based Anticipation of Future Events (SAFE).” Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), 2016-2018.
Alan Mislove. “Picocenter: Supporting Long-lived, Mostly Idle Applications in Cloud Environments.” Amazon Web Services Research in Education Grant, 2015-2016.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “A Multi-Year Evaluation of Boston Summer Youth Employment Program Features to Reduce Inequality Across Groups.” City of Boston, Office of Workforce Development, 2015-2016.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “Reducing Economic Inequality by Increasing Equality of Opportunity. Policy Options: College and Career Readiness.” Partners Healthcare, 2015.
Alicia Sasser Modestino and Trinh Nguyen. “Citi Community Development Concept Proposal: Youth Credit Building Initiative.” Joint with City of Boston, Citi, 2015-2016.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Communication Science in the Digital Age: New Frontiers in Theory and Research Workshop.” National Science Foundation Digital Societies and Technologies Research Coordination Network Award, 2015.
Chris Parsons. “Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Stipend.” Association for Documentary Editing, 2015.
Christo Wilson, Alan Mislove, and David Choffnes. “Revealing and Controlling Mobile Privacy Leaks.” Data Transparency Lab Research Award, 2015-2016.
Christoph Riedl, Noshir Contractor (Northwestern), and Janet Fulk (USC). “Understanding Online Creative Collaboration Over Multidimensional Networks.” National Science Foundation (NSF), 2015-2018.
David Lazer, Alan Mislove, and Christo Wilson. “Public Access to Pricing Personalization.” Knight Foundation Knight Prototype Fund, 2015-2016.
David Smith. “Trees over Time: Diachronic Syntactic Analysis of Millions of Books with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation.” Google Faculty Research Award, 2013–2014.
David Smith and Melanie Fried-Oken (Oregon Health and Science University). “Clinic Interactions of a Brain-Computer Interface for Communication.” NIH NIDOCD, 2015–2020.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Benjamin Schmidt, David Smith, and Ryan Cordell. “Proteus Project, development.” Joint with University of Massachusetts, Mellon Foundation, 2015-2016.
Moya Bailey. Digital Media Learning “Trust Challenge” Grant for Addressing Anti-Feminist Violence Online, Center for Solution to Online Violence, 2015-2016.
Moya Bailey. Annie E. Casey Grant for addressing LGBTQ issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), 2015-2016.
Alan Mislove. “Towards Robust Crowd Computations.” National Science Foundation CNS-1421444, TWC: Small, 2014-2017.
Alan Mislove. “Identification of User Data Gathered and Shared by Companies.” Narus Unrestricted Gift, 2014.
Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, and David Lazer. “Towards Transparency of Personalization on the Web.” National Science Foundation, NeTS: Medium: CHS/IIS-1408345, 2014-2018.
Alan Mislove, Dave Levin (UMD), and Theophilus Benson (Duke). “Towards Finer-grained Cloud Computing.” National Science Foundation CNS-1409191, CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research, 2014-2018.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “Greater Boston Housing Report Card.” The Boston Foundation, 2014-2015.
Alicia Sasser Modestino and Daniel Shoag. “Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?” Russell Sage Foundation, Project #85-14-05, 2014-2016.
Benjamin Schmidt. “Bookworm Project.” Joint with co-PIs at University of Illinois and Rice University, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 2014-2016.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Measuring ‘Network Thinking’ and its Impact on the Individual and Team Performance.” US Army Research Office Young Investigator Award: W911NF-14-1-0672, 2014-2017.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Distributed, User-Oriented Multi-Scale Network Summarization and Online Analytical Processing.” US Army Research Laboratory, Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance Y6-7: IPAN 14: W911NF-09-02-0053, 2014-2016.
Christo Wilson, Engin Kirda, and Wil Robertson. “Intelligent Automation, Inc. A Trusted Framework for Embedded Systems.” Air Force Small Business Innovation Research Program (AFRL SBIR): FA8750-13-C-0112, 2014–2015.
Christoph Riedl. “Social Network Processes in Collaborative Decision-Making.” Young Investigator Program Award (YIP ARO), 2014-2017.
David Lazer. “Political Inequality in the Application of Money to Electoral Politics.” Russell Sage Foundation, 2014-2015.
David Lazer. “Early Model Based Event Recognition Using Surrogates.” Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), EMBERS: Open Source Indicators, 2014-2015.
David Lazer. EMBERS, 2014-2016.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Ryan Cordell, David Smith, Benjamin Schmidt, and James Allen. “Proteus: Supporting Scholarly Information Seeking through Text-Reuse Analysis and Interactive Corpus Construction.” Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program, 2014-2016.
Julia Flanders. “TAPAS: Building an XML-Aware Repository.” NEH, 2014-2016.
Alan Mislove. “Deploying Confederated Web Services.” Amazon Web Services Research in Education Grant, 2013-2015.
Benjamin Schmidt. “Bookworm Project.” Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), 2013.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Behavior Constrained Networks.” US Army Research Laboratory, Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance Y5: W911NF-09-02-0053, 2013-2014.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Online Laboratory to Study Large Group Network Performance.” Sub-Award, US Army Research Laboratory, Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance Y5: W911NF-09-02-0053, 2013-2014.
Christo Wilson and Alan Mislove. “Towards Confederated Web-Based Services.” National Science Foundation CNS-1319019, CSR: Small, 2013-2016.
Christo Wilson and Engin Kirda. Verisign Labs Quantifying WHOIS Usage and Defending Against Abuse, 2013.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, and Ryan Cordell. “Our Marathon.” Funding from WBUR to support the WBUR Oral History Project, 2013.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, and Ryan Cordell. “Our Marathon.” Funding from Iron Mountain to support digitization of cards and other messages of support collected by Boston City Archives, 2013.
Ryan Cordell, David Smith, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. “Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers.” NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, 2013-2014.
Alan Mislove and David Lazer. “Will the Revolution be Tweeted? Weak Ties, Social Media, and Ash Movements.” Army Research Office W911NF-12-1-0556, 2012-2016.
David Lazer. “Dynamical Processes in Interdependent Techno-Social Networks.” NSF CDI-Type II: Collaborative Research, 2012-2014.
David Lazer. “Using Archival Resources to Conduct Data-Intensive Internet Research.” NSF Collaborative Research BCC-SBE, 2012-2016.
David Lazer. FED-OTH-PT/HRL, 2012-2014.
Alan Mislove. “Systems for the Emerging Patterns of Content Exchange.” National Science Foundation CNS-1054233, CAREER, 2011-2016.
Alan Mislove. “Mitigating Sybil Attacks on Content Rating Systems.” Google Faculty Research Award, 2011.
Alan Mislove. “Measuring and Predicting Sentiment in Online Social Networks.” Amazon Web Services Research in Education Grant, 2011-2013.
David Lazer. “Creating an Online Laboratory.” ARO, 2011-2014.
Alan Mislove. “Measuring Information Flow in Real-Time.” Amazon Web Services Research in Education Grant, 2010-2011.
Alan Mislove, Bobby Bhattacharjee (UMD), Neil Spring (UMD), and Jonathan Katz (UMD). “Privacy Preserving Social Systems.” National Science Foundation IIS-0964465, NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research, 2010-2013.
David Lazer. “Measuring, Understanding, and Responding to Covert Social Networks: Passive and Active Tomography.” NAVY-PT, 2010-2016.
Alan Mislove. “Tracing the Spread of Information in Social Networks.” Amazon Web Services Research in Education Grant, 2009-2010.
David Lazer. “Academic Research Center for Social & Cognitive Networks.” ARMY PRIME:W911NF-09-2-0053, 2009-2016.
Internal Grants
Alpha Yacob Arsano, Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga, Matthew Eckelman. “Cool and Carbon-Free Global South: Making Large-Scale Building Data Sets Accessible.” Northeastern University Mentored Award, 2023.
Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga. “Drawing Participation: Collectively Re-Blocking a Million Neighborhoods.” NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks Seedling Grant. 2023.
Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga. “Autonomous Sensing Technologies Towards Improving Community and Environmental Health.” Northeastern University, College of Media, Arts, and Design Seed Grant. 2023.
Jessica Parr. “History of the Blues.” Northeastern University Humanities Center, 2023.
Jessica Parr, Killion Mowkete, and Patricia Davis. “African Building Heritage.” Northeastern University Tier 1 Research Development, 2023.
Mikhail Oet, Moira Zellner, Youngbok Ryu, Sara Constantino. “Green Finance for Arctic Futures: Innovating for Sustainability and Indigenous Empowerment.”
Moira Zellner, Rahul Bharghava, Dani Snyder-Young, Michael Arnold Mages, Jonathan Carr, and Laura Perovich. “Data Theatre Forum on Gentrification & Greenway Development.” Northeastern University Humanities Center, 2023-2024.
Peter West (NU London), Sarah Connell, Julia Flanders, Brian Ball (NU London). “New Digital Methods for Understanding The Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy.” Northeastern University Mentored Award, 2023.
Sahar Abi-Hassan (Mills College), David Lazer. “The Hidden Plaintiffs in Supreme Court Litigation.” Northeastern University Mentored Award, 2023.
Xuechen Chen, Myohung Chung, and Seoeun Yang. “Artificial Intelligence to unpack the Dynamic Relationships between Media Narratives, Foreign Policy, and Public Opinion.” Northeastern University Tier 1 Seed Grant, 2023-2024.
Xuechen Chen, Pablo Calderon Martinez, and Ada Lerner. “Reimagining cyberspace governance regimes: a multi-layered approach.” Northeastern University Tier 1 Seed Grant, 2023-2024.
Xuechen Chen. “Strategic Narratives of Russia’s War in Ukraine: A Comparative Study of the United States and the European Union.” NULab Seedling Grant, 2023.
Ang Li. “Taking Stock: Architecture After Building.” CAMD Summer Support, 2022.
Christopher Parsons and Sara Jensen Carr. “Historical Epidemics in American Cities.” NEU Tier-1 Grant, 2022.
Dietmar Offenhuber. “Tactile Information Experiences for Inclusive Museums.” CAMD Strategic Seed, 2022.
John Wihbey. “Climate Change and Public Communication.” CAMD Impact Group, 2022.
Laura Lhul, Julia Hopkins, and Moira Zellner. “Planning Transformational Coastal Adaptation with a Climate Justice Lens.” Tier-1 Research Award, 2022.
Meg Heckman. “Exploring Solutions Journalism.” CAMD Summer Support, 2022.
Silvio Amir, Yakov Bart, and Brooke Foucault Welles. “Discovering Digital Allies and Influential Actors in Online Social Movements.” Tier-1 Research Award, 2022-2023.
Yakov Bart, Matthew Eckelman, and Moira Zellner. “Measuring Sustainable Consumption with Transaction-level Environmental Accounting.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2022-2023.
Yang, Seo Eun. “Automatically uncovering visual dimensions in political communication.” NULab Seedling Grant, 2022.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Examining Crowdsourced COVID-19 Experts.” Provost Crisis Seed Fund Award, 2020.
Dietmar Offenhuber. “Touching and breathing data: exploring material visualization.” College of Arts, Media, and Design, 2021.
K.J. Rawson and Julia Flanders. “Establishing the Homosaurus at Northeastern University.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2021.
Myojung Chung. “National Communication Association (NCA) 2021 Annual Conference.” College of Arts, Media, and Design, 2021.
Nicholas Beauchamp, Ali Touran, and Ryan Wang. “Automatic Mining of Project Risk Data from News Articles with NLP” Northeastern University Tier 1 Grant, 2021.
Rahul Bhargava and Laura Perovich. “Embodying Information.” NEU Cluster Seed Grant, 2021.
Sarah Kanouse. “People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado.” College of Arts, Media, and Design, 2021.
Julia Flanders and Nicole Aljoe. “Representing Racial Identity in Early Women’s Writing.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2020.
Daniel O’Brien, Oliver Ayers, and Patrick Yott. “Digital Cities Research Network.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2020.
Myojung Chung, Mike Peacey, John Wihbey, and Sara Colombo. “Information Filtering in Social Media and Formation of Misbeliefs.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2020.
Nicholas Beauchamp, Cordula Robinson, Ryan Wang, and Dan O’Brien. “Decision Support in Combating COVID-19: Anticipating the next virus hot spot using geolocated social media data.” NU COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Crisis Seed Funding, 2020.
Rebekah Moore, Laura Senier, Jessica Silbey, Shan Mohammed, Alisa Lincoln, Antonio Ocampo-Guzman, and Amanda Reeser Lawrence. “Advancing Racial and Health Equity through the Arts: A Community-engaged Research Study in the City of Boston.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2020.
Meg Heckman. “Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Dissemination Grant.” College of Arts, Media, and Design, 2019.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. Co-PI, “Risking Justice: Examination of AI Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System”, NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2019-2020.
Devesh Tiwari and Laura Nelson. “Graphic-content Sharing in Our Digital Society: Discovering New Sociological Behavior via Computational Data Analytics.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2018.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Laura Nelson, Moya Bailey, Meg Heckman, and Sarah Jackson. “Measuring Social Movement Success: Linguistic and Discursive Indicators of Social Change.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2018.
Julia Flanders, Ellen Cushman, and David Smith. “Building a Digital Archive of Cherokee: A Lexical Database.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2018.
Margaret Burnham, Jack McDevitt, Roderick Ireland, and Moya Bailey. “Mobilizing the CRRJ-Nobles Archive: Redressing Intergenerational Criminal Justice Failures.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2018.
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Noor Alam, and Gary Young. “Using Big Data to Compare Effectiveness of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2017.
Brooke Foucault Welles and Christoph Riedl. “Team Communication Unpacked: A Pilot Study of Team Communication Process and Performance Captured in a Smart Meeting Room.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2017.
Catalina Herrera Almanza and David Lazer. “Networks and Global Health: Experimental Evidence of Women’s Social Networks, Reproductive Health, and Well-Being in Developing Countries.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2017.
Christo Wilson and Yakov Bart. “Uncovering Strategic Consumer Data Collection and Sharing in Online Markets by Tracing Information Flows.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2017.
Élika Ortega and Ryan Cordell. “Witnessing Hate: A Social Justice Archive of the Now.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2017.
John Wihbey and Shakir Mustafa. “Sectarian Discourse in Arab Print and Social Media.” NEU Collaborative Research Cluster Grant, 2017.
Julia Flanders, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, and Cody Dunne. “Word Vector Analysis for TEI/XML: A User-Friendly Toolkit.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2017.
Moya Bailey. NEU LGBTQA Resource Center’s Gratitude Award, 2017.
Nick Beauchamp, Michelle Borkin, and Lu Wang. “Inferring Argument Structure from Online and Live Conversations.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2017-2018.
Tina Eliassi-Rad. “Modeling Tools for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).” NEU Global Resilience Institute, 2017-2019.
Brooke Foucault Welles and Dietmar Offenhuber. “Catalyzing Youth Advocacy Through Interactive Social Network Visualizations.” Northeastern University Tier 1 Research Award, 2016-2017.
Christopher Parsons. “The Sustainable Humanities.” NEU Collaborative Research Cluster Grant, 2016.
Dietmar Offenhuber and Thomas Vicino. “Social Resilience through Information and Communication Technologies in Rio de Janeiro’s Conflict Zones.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2016.
John Ackermann, Peter Bex, and Michelle Borkin. “Designing Computerized Support Systems to Optimize Human Diagnostic Decision-Making.” NEU TIER 1 Grant, 2016.
Lu Wang and Yun Raymond Fu. “Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks for Intelligent Visual Forecasting.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2016-2017.
Michelle Borkin. NEU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Incentive Grant, 2016.
Moya Bailey, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, and Julia Flanders. “The Digital Feminist Commons: Fostering Feminist Methodologies in the Digital Humanities.” NEU Collaborative Research Cluster Grant, 2016.
Sarah Kanouse. NEU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Incentive Grant, 2016.
Alicia Sasser Modestino and Jamie Ladge. “Achieving Gender Equality in the Workplace: A Research Collaboration Focusing on Building and Sustaining Parity for Women in Recruitment, Management, Employment, and Compensation.” NEU Humanities Center Collaborative Research Cluster, 2015.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “Upskilling and Downskilling: Using Big Data to Study Changes in Employer Requirements During the Great Recession.” NEU NULab Seedling Grant, 2015.
Alicia Sasser Modestino. “Upskilling: A Qualitative Study of Changing Employer Skill Requirements.” NEU College of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Development Initiative, 2015.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “#Hashtag Activism: Networked Counterpublics in the Digital Age.” College of Arts, Media and Design Faculty Research Grant, 2015.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Communication Science in the Digital Age: New Frontiers in Theory and Research Workshop.” NEU NULab Co-Sponsorship Award, 2015.
Christopher Parsons. “The Sustainable Humanities.” NEU Humanities Center Collaborative Research Cluster, 2015.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Access, Choice, and Involvement in Urban Public Schools.” NEU Humanities Center Collaborative Research Cluster Award, 2012.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Mining Big Heterogeneous Networks: Scalable Parallel Algorithms and Effective Scheduling.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2014.
Brooke Foucault Welles. “Cultivating ‘Network Thinking’ for Personal, Social, and Emotional Wellness.” College of Arts, Media, and Design Faculty Research Grant, 2013.
David Smith, Christoph Riedl, Dietmar Offenhuber, and Nicholas Beauchamp. “Extracting and Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Text Networks: Tools for Structural Reading and Text Exploration.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2014.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. “Development of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive Project.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2012.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. Instructional Development Fund Grant for Archival Teaching Project, NEU, 2008-2009
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Julia Flanders, David Smith, and Patrick Yott. “Big Data and Text Curation: TEI and NLP Methods and Intersections.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2014.
Moya Bailey, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Julia Flanders, Benjamin Schmidt, and Ryan Cordell. NEU ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Grant for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2014.
Nicholas Beauchamp, Dietmar Offenhuber, and Christoph Riedl. “Visualization of Text-based Networks.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2014.
Ryan Cordell, David Smith, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. “Infectious Texts: Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers Project.” NEU Tier 1 Grant, 2013.
Ryan Cordell and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. “Our Marathon.” Seed Funding from the CSSH Dean’s Office, 2013.