UDD highlighted Lixandria as an AI platform for exploring university degrees

Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 2, 2026 1 min read
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Universidad del Desarrollo highlighted Lixandria, an AI-based platform created by Cristian Candia-Castro to help students and school counselors explore, compare, and expand academic alternatives in higher education.

The project connects revealed preferences, network science, educational data, and recommender systems to make the Chilean higher education landscape easier to navigate.

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Cristian Candia
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.