Cristian Candia received Best Lightning Talk Award at CCS 2025
Cristian Candia received the Best Lightning Talk Award at the 21st Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2025) in Siena, Italy.
The award recognized Neural Network Nominate (NNN): Mapping Mass Political Ideology via Revealed Preferences, a method that maps ideological organization from pairwise policy preferences rather than relying only on self-reported political placement.
At CCS 2025, Cristian also delivered a keynote in the Computational Social Science Satellite, “Boundaries of Belonging in Memory, Politics, and Schools,” connecting CRiSS-LAB research on collective memory, polarization, and school coexistence.
Additional media coverage: UDD Engineering and La Tribuna.
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Head of CRiSS-LAB.
Cristian Candia studies how societies transform information into collective relevance through attention, memory, preferences, and coordination. His work combines computational social science, network science, AI, and large-scale behavioral data to understand how groups, institutions, and societies decide what matters.