Stanley Wasserman, PhD, Scientist at Large

As Visible Path's Scientist-at-Large, Stanley Wasserman applies his 30-years of ground-breaking work in social network analysis to the development of proprietary SNA mathematical models for Visible Path's software platform. He is Rudy Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics at Indiana University. He is currently co-Principal Investigator on a 3-year (2005-2008) $1.2 million grant from NSF to Indiana University to develop a NetWorkBench --- a set of software tools portable across platforms and useable by the entire range of network scientists. He recently (2000-2003) was Principal Investigator on a 3-year $1.5 million grant from NSF to the University of Illinois to study the co-evolution of knowledge networks and organizational forms. He is an associate editor of Psychometrika, and has been an editor of Chance for the past ten years. He is also an editor of Centrality: The Relationship Capital Management Journal. He is the co-author of Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, the definitive textbook on social networks. Stanley received his PhD from Harvard University in 1977.