advisory board

Meet our advisory board

Brooke
Foucault Welles

Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles serves as Director of the WiNS Advisory Board. She is an associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, as well as Director of the CoMM Lab in the Network Science Institute. 



kate coronges

Dr. Kate Coronges serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is the executive director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. 

Ann McCranie

Dr. Ann McCranie serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is the associate director of the Network Science Institute at Indiana University, as well as associate director of Research and Training at the Irsay Family Research Institute.

tina eliassi-rad

Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, as well as core faculty at the Network Science Institute and the Institute for Experiential AI there. 

catherine cramer

Catherine Cramer serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is founder and principal of the Woods Hole Institute, a Senior Consultant at Associated Universities, Inc. and West Big Data Innovation Hub, and associate director of the EarthCube Office. 


ralucca gera

Dr. Ralucca Gera serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is a math professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, as well as the Associate Provost for Graduate Education and Director of Teaching and Learning Commons. She is also a board member of Bay View Academy. 

raissa d'souza

Dr. Raissa D’Souza serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is a professor of Computer Sciences and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Davis, as well as an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. 

sandra gonzalez-bailon

Dr. Sandra González-Bailón serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and affiliated faculty at the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences.

laura koehly

Dr. Laura Koehly serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is Chief of the Social and Behavioral Research branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute and a Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health. 

philippa (pipP) pattinson

Dr. Pip Pattison serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She recently retired as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Education at the University of Sydney, and is now an Emeritus Professor there and at the University of Melbourne. 

miranda lubbers

Dr. Miranda Lubbers serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is an associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Director of the COALESCE Lab, and ICREA Acadèmia fellow.

michelle girvan

Dr. Michelle Girvan serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is a professor in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). 

Maria christina BINZ-SCHARF

Dr. Maria Christina (MC) Binz-Scharf serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is an associate professor of Management in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York.

reka albert

Dr. Reka Albert serves on the WiNS Advisory Board. She is a professor of Physics and Biology at Pennsylvania State University.