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I received an Amazon Research Award to support research on teams, disruption, and collaboration.

Award amount: $70,000.

I presented at Northwestern University’s Center for Latinx Digital Media.

Venue: Northwestern University.

I received Microsoft Research computing credits through the Accelerating Foundation Models Research program.

Award amount: $35,000 in computing credits.

I presented at the MIT–Chile Human-Centered AI & Visualization Research Workshop.

Venue: MIT Media Lab – PUC.

I’m happy to announce that I will become an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Notre Dame. After I complete my postdoc position in 2021-22, I will join the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of IT, Analytics, and Operations (Courtesy). I will continue my research in the intersections of data science, computational social science, and HCI.

Our paper “Do I know you? The effects of social capital on self-assembled groups” has been accepted for presentation at the virtual 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management taking place 29 July – 4 August 2021.

This fall 2021, I will become a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. I will be working on teams with Prof. Dashun Wang.

Our paper “Do I know you? The effects of social capital on self-assembled groups” has been selected for the virtual 71st Annual ICA Conference, Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice, to be held on 27-31 May 2021.

I will be joining the Snap Inc. Research team this fall 2020. My mentor will be Maarten Bos, Lead Research Scientist.

Sharing some wonderful news – We have a paper accepted to CSCW 2020!! Congrats to lead author Diego Gómez-Zará and his co-authors Dr. Leslie DeChurch and Dr. Noshir Contractor.

The paper is titled “A Taxonomy of Team-Assembly Systems: Understanding How People Use Technologies to Form Teams.”