About CRiSS-LAB

The Computational Research in Social Science Laboratory (CRiSS-LAB) is an interdisciplinary research group at Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile, directed by Cristian Candia, Ph.D. The lab studies collective intelligence, collective memory, education, cooperation, mobility, polarization, cultural attention, and institutional decision-making using computational social science, network science, causal inference, experimental game theory, machine learning, and large-scale behavioral data.

Our work connects rigorous research with applied platforms and public-interest tools. Projects such as Lixandria, Discolab, PriorizaChile, SocialRec, MúsicaCL, and Capybara translate data science and complex systems research into usable evidence for students, schools, public institutions, organizations, and civic debate.

CRiSS-LAB brings together researchers, graduate students, data scientists, and collaborators from physics, engineering, education, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, and computer science. The lab operates through the Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, and the Center for Social Complexity, School of Government, Universidad del Desarrollo.

Cristian Candia, Ph.D.
Head of the Computational Research in Social Science Lab.