Talks and Events

Abstract: [ENG] Vast amounts of data are becoming increasingly available to capture social processes at large scale and in great detail. Meanwhile, the rapid development of AI and computational approaches offers powerful toolkits for analyzing various data.

Abstract: [ENG] In this talk, I will provide an overview of the research we did in the past decade to better understand how technological innovations emerge, spread, and decline in social networks.

Abstract: [ENG] Over the past decades, text-analysis methods have been slowly integrated into the repertoire of methods used to reliably measure psychological constructs. Yet, many of the existing computational methods in psychological text analysis remain atheoretical and lack the interpretability that social sciences are accustomed to and desire.

Abstract: En la enseñanza moderna, las tecnologías de Inteligencia Artificial Generativa (IAG) como ChatGPT y Wolfram Alpha están cambiando la forma en que los docentes planifican e implementan experiencias de aprendizaje.

Abstract: [ENG] The unprecedented growth in social media use and large-scale information collection pose new threats, but also offer new opportunities. Modeling and managing complex interactive systems requires the analysis of social and technological signals to gain new insights into human society and individual behavior.

Abstract: [ENG] We discuss two projects that quantify the consequences of our network location for our access to resources and rewards in science. First, we investigate the dynamics of international science through the lens of national citation preferences, introducing a novel measure to characterize these processes and enabling a network analysis of global knowledge production.

La Convergencia de las Ciencias Físicas y Sociales: Una Entrevista con el Dr. Cristian Candia En una entrevista reciente, Carla Hermann, Ph.D., la anfitriona del programa Let’s Get Physical, se sentó con el Dr.

Abstract: [ENG] This study seeks to understand how recommender systems can help individuals assemble functionally diverse teams. We run a 2x2 between-subject laboratory experiment with 384 participants to test the effect of a recommender system's algorithms on individuals' teaming experience, team processes, and team performance.

Abstract: [ENG] Do university researchers benefit from related private R&D? How is this benefit shaped by the urban environment around them?

Abstract: [ENG] It is well known that social networks fundamentally impact the dynamic processes of the populations they support. Examples include epidemic outbreaks, the diffusion of innovations, opinion formation, and behavioral evolution.

Abstract: [ENG] Algorithmic matching is a pervasive mechanism in our social and economic lives, used for example in algorithmic job search engines, kidney transplant allocation algorithms, medical residency program allocation, and search engines for finding romantic partners and potential spouses.

Abstract: [ENG] Education professionals, researchers, and even most student would agree that learning and development in its largest sense are highly social processes.

Abstract: [ENG] The study of polarization as a social phenomenon has inspired a rich literature on methods and socio-demographic features to characterize them.

-- Cultural products have a life of their own: academic papers get cited and songs get downloaded. While scholars have studied these patterns, we know little about how to model the decay of attention.