Lab Director
Christoph Riedl
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Christoph Riedl is an associate professor for Information Systems and Network Science at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He holds a joint appointment with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and is a core faculty member at the Network Science Institute. He is a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard and the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT. He is recipient of a Young Investigator Award (YIP) from the Army Research Office (ARO) for his work on social networks in collaborative decision-making. His work has been funded by NSF, ARO, ONR, and DARPA, and has been published in leading journals including Science, Nature Communications, Organization Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Academy of Management Discoveries, and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
His research interests are to understand how social and economic networks shape collaboration and decision-making on the individual, group, and community level. He is known for his scholarship on how crowdsourcing and “wisdom of the crowd” mechanisms can be designed and managed to achieve innovative outcomes. His work has focused on the open problem of how to design and manage teams, and to harness the wisdom of the crowd and advance the understanding of how social influence and information diffusion in networks shape outcomes on a global scale.
Christoph Riedl teaches courses on Digital Business Transformation, Business Analytics, and Network Economics.
c.riedl@neu.edu | CV | Github | Twitter | Google Scholar
Christoph Riedl is an associate professor for Information Systems and Network Science at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He holds a joint appointment with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and is a core faculty member at the Network Science Institute. He is a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard and the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT. He is recipient of a Young Investigator Award (YIP) from the Army Research Office (ARO) for his work on social networks in collaborative decision-making. His work has been funded by NSF, ARO, ONR, and DARPA, and has been published in leading journals including Science, Nature Communications, Organization Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Academy of Management Discoveries, and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
His research interests are to understand how social and economic networks shape collaboration and decision-making on the individual, group, and community level. He is known for his scholarship on how crowdsourcing and “wisdom of the crowd” mechanisms can be designed and managed to achieve innovative outcomes. His work has focused on the open problem of how to design and manage teams, and to harness the wisdom of the crowd and advance the understanding of how social influence and information diffusion in networks shape outcomes on a global scale.
Christoph Riedl teaches courses on Digital Business Transformation, Business Analytics, and Network Economics.
Graduate Research Assistants
Samuel Westby
Sam is a first year PhD student working with Professor Christoph Riedl. His research interests explore the potential of technology for human cooperation, specifically for understanding and augmentation. Sam comes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned his B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology with a minor in Computer Science. At UW-Madison, he worked on prediction of movie box office revenues using Reddit data and improvement of police officers’ well-being using mindfulness-based interventions.
Sam is a first year PhD student working with Professor Christoph Riedl. His research interests explore the potential of technology for human cooperation, specifically for understanding and augmentation. Sam comes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned his B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology with a minor in Computer Science. At UW-Madison, he worked on prediction of movie box office revenues using Reddit data and improvement of police officers’ well-being using mindfulness-based interventions.
Zach Fulker
Zach is a third-year PhD student working with Dr. Chris Riedl as part of the CSS Lab. Zach is primarily interested in dynamic networks, search behavior, and organizational theory. His research utilizes simulation modeling and experiments to better understand how groups of people process information to adapt, learn, and innovate. Currently, he is undertaking research on the role of incentives and group structure in parallel problem solving, and the outcome of games on dynamic networks. Zach received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Mathematics and Economics and minoring in Computer Science and Statistics.
V Lange
V is a first year PhD student working with Dr. Christoph Riedl and Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles. V has a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently they were a lab manager for a cognitive neuroscience lab at Penn State. At Penn State V studied cross-situational word learning and how people learn from linguistic Networks. At Northeastern they are interested in studying marginalization and communication in teams as well as marginalization in social networks.
Nunzio Lorè
Nunzio is a first year PhD student working with Dr. Christoph Riedl at the CSS lab. His area of interest is largely at the intersection of network science, economics and game theory, with a focus on how network structures can generate, alter or create the structure of incentives. He is currently working on a paper analyzing a network public good game with heterogeneous preferences. Nunzio received his BSc. in International Economics, Management and Finance and his MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan.
Zach is a third-year PhD student working with Dr. Chris Riedl as part of the CSS Lab. Zach is primarily interested in dynamic networks, search behavior, and organizational theory. His research utilizes simulation modeling and experiments to better understand how groups of people process information to adapt, learn, and innovate. Currently, he is undertaking research on the role of incentives and group structure in parallel problem solving, and the outcome of games on dynamic networks. Zach received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Mathematics and Economics and minoring in Computer Science and Statistics.
V Lange
V is a first year PhD student working with Dr. Christoph Riedl and Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles. V has a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently they were a lab manager for a cognitive neuroscience lab at Penn State. At Penn State V studied cross-situational word learning and how people learn from linguistic Networks. At Northeastern they are interested in studying marginalization and communication in teams as well as marginalization in social networks.
Nunzio Lorè
Nunzio is a first year PhD student working with Dr. Christoph Riedl at the CSS lab. His area of interest is largely at the intersection of network science, economics and game theory, with a focus on how network structures can generate, alter or create the structure of incentives. He is currently working on a paper analyzing a network public good game with heterogeneous preferences. Nunzio received his BSc. in International Economics, Management and Finance and his MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan.
Staff
Kristen Flaherty
Kristen is a post-baccalaureate research assistant working with Professor Christoph Riedl to study the social network of small teams. She is also the lab manager of the Communication Media and Marginalization Lab within Northeastern's Network Science Institute, directed by Professor Brooke Foucault-Welles. Kristen’s research interests lie in computational social science, technology ethics, public interest technology and psychology. Her past work has explored gendered art movements and art disciplines, examined how the COVID-19 pandemic affected financial markets and critiqued data monetization plans and the use of health tracking technologies mid-pandemic. In the future, she plans to attend graduate school and research human-computer interaction.
Kristen is a post-baccalaureate research assistant working with Professor Christoph Riedl to study the social network of small teams. She is also the lab manager of the Communication Media and Marginalization Lab within Northeastern's Network Science Institute, directed by Professor Brooke Foucault-Welles. Kristen’s research interests lie in computational social science, technology ethics, public interest technology and psychology. Her past work has explored gendered art movements and art disciplines, examined how the COVID-19 pandemic affected financial markets and critiqued data monetization plans and the use of health tracking technologies mid-pandemic. In the future, she plans to attend graduate school and research human-computer interaction.
Alumni
Michael Foley
Ewen (Yuxuan) Wang
Jaemin Lee (now at The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Gyanendra Sharma
Stefano Balietti (now researcher at Microsoft Research)
Sam Fraiberger (now Data Scientist at the World Bank and Visiting Scholar at NYU Computer Science Department)
Praveen Ningappa
Jake Moody
Christina Sirabella
Tina Lee
Ewen (Yuxuan) Wang
Jaemin Lee (now at The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Gyanendra Sharma
Stefano Balietti (now researcher at Microsoft Research)
Sam Fraiberger (now Data Scientist at the World Bank and Visiting Scholar at NYU Computer Science Department)
Praveen Ningappa
Jake Moody
Christina Sirabella
Tina Lee
