Neelam

Postdoc @Columbia_Biz @ColumbiaTamer; PhD @NU_IEMS @NorthwesternU; Former @SonicNU @NCState @ParkScholarship

[Katherine Ognyanova (@ognyanova.bsky.social) @Ognyanova]

Yeah, I'm just watching @OpenAI 's newly released ChatGPT Agent power through my Qualtrics survey. I have thoughts about the future of human subject research. #artificalintelligence #LLM

[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

@noshir @Columbia_Biz Thank you, Noshir!! 💜

[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

Officially Neelam Modi, PhD! Deeply grateful for the support system that carried me through this journey - feeling pretty nostalgic about the road behind me, while genuinely excited for what’s ahead.

[SONIC Research Group @SonicNU]

Congrats to Dr. Neelam Modi on defending her dissertation, “Essays on Network Approaches to Understanding Social Influence”!

Committee: Noshir Contractor (chair), Dashun Wang, Leslie DeChurch (Northwestern), Johan Koskinen (Stockholm Univ.), Alina Lungeanu (Northeastern Univ.)

[Lista Redes @lista_redes]

Social Networks - Volume 82, Pages 1-228 (July 2025) https://t.co/k0pIOtN8yz #sna #ars

[Lista Redes @lista_redes]

Modeling the “who” and “how” of social influence in the adoption of health practices https://t.co/Kive6brWmh #sna #ars

[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Excited to share that my latest paper with @drjohankoskinen, Leslie DeChurch, and @noshir on “Modeling the 'who' and 'how' of social influence in the adoption of health practices” is now published in Social Networks!🔗 Read it here: https://t.co/Ejj9ftG4tN

[Katy Milkman @katy_milkman]

Today, the world lost Gene Hackman, who will be remembered for many legacies. But by behavioral economists, he will be best remembered for explaining mental accounting in this clip with Dustin Hoffman.

What is mental accounting? It's our tendency to treat resources like money and time as if they aren't fungible. We create artificial "mental accounts" to help us keep track of resources and avoid overspending. In this clip, we learn that as a poor young actor, Dustin Hoffman kept jars of money with different labels (rent, entertainment, food, etc.) in his house and wouldn't take money out of a jar with one label to pay for expenses in another category. So when he ran out of food money, he went to Gene Hackman for a loan. Hackman was skeptical, however, when he saw that there was plenty of money in other jars!

Huge thanks to @R_Thaler for sharing this clip with behavioral economists everywhere. Many of us show this when we teach our students about mental accounting, which has implications for everything from taxi/Uber/Lyft drivers' tendency to set income targets to the way we respond when we're surprised with a $10 off coupon to the grocery store. I showed it to my @Wharton MBA students just last week!

Here are a few papers of my favorite papers on mental accounting:
(1) Mental Accounting Matters: https://t.co/POb5IRMsIw
(2) Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: https://t.co/e3119dBYWo
(3) Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: https://t.co/83TUuofoCl

Video Source: https://t.co/aaWlFBUrUO

[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

Our findings raise crucial questions for organizations: What kind of diversity do your efforts support, and does that align with your goals? Excited to hear thoughts and continue the conversation!

[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Thrilled to share that my paper with @AlinaLungeanu, Leslie DeChurch, & @noshir titled “The differential impacts of team diversity as variability versus atypicality on team effectiveness” is out now in Scientific Reports! Read it here: https://t.co/zmBDn8v8Cq
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[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

High variability can hinder short-term performance but has mixed effects on long-term viability. High atypicality has a mixed impact on short-term performance but strongly enhances long-term viability.

[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

Thrilled to be a part of this series! 🤩

[NICO @NICOatNU]

This Wednesday! Join us for our final #WedatNICO of the year, with some amazing NU scholars: Albert Kabanda (@WeinbergCollege),
Neelam Modi (@NorthwesternEng and @SonicNU) and Maria Warns (@NorthwesternEng)!

🗓️ Wed 11/20 at 12pm US Central
🔗 https://t.co/lOt2UeoCZr

[SONIC Research Group @SonicNU]

Last week, SONIC Lab member @neelamjmodi joined @AnetiLabs Seminar Series to present on her research titled, "Is Success Contagious? A Case Study of U.S. Patenting Teams." ANETI Lab is an interdisciplinary research group operating at HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional ...

[Neelam @neelamjmodi]

Excited and honored to be a part of this seminar series! Thank you for inviting me @AnetiLabs !!

[ANETI Lab @AnetiLabs]

Next up in the @AnetiLabs Seminar Series we have @neelamjmodi from @NorthwesternU presenting: "Is success contagious? A Case Study of U.S. Patenting Teams". Don't miss it.
Date: Oct 8, 5pm CEST
Details and subscription: https://t.co/ayE9TmedYe

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

https://t.co/EMsumlaUW8

[SONIC Research Group @SonicNU]

Earlier this week, SONIC Director @noshir Contractor and Graduate Student Researcher @neelamjmodi attended and participated in the Council of Engineering Systems Universities 2023 Symposium. The Council provides a mechanism ...

[NU INFORMS @NU_INFORMS]

It’s @INFORMS annual meeting week at Phoenix. 🎉

Kicking off updates of @NU_IEMS with our very own Aysu Ozel winning the “Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition” for her stellar work on “Community-engaged school district design”. Kudos!!

[SONIC Research Group @SonicNU]

NU's Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences has awarded SONIC graduate student researcher @neelamjmodi with their Student Leadership Award. This award is earned by students demonstrating exceptional leadership in the IEMS program. Congratulations, Neelam!

[IEMS @NU_IEMS]

Yesterday we had our annual IEMS Fall Picnic where we celebrated our awardees. Congratulations to all and what a great way to start the new year!