Complex Systems

Collective memory can be quantified through the collective attention received by cultural icons, artifacts, people, scientific ideas, …

La Tribuna profiled Cristian Candia after the CCS 2025 Best Lightning Talk Award for research on political polarization and artificial intelligence.

Cristian Candia was awarded Best Lightning Talk at the 21st Conference on Complex Systems in Siena, Italy, for Neural Network Nominate, a method for mapping mass political ideology from revealed preferences.

Cristian Candia participated as invited faculty in the 2025 Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies, organized by the Santa Fe Institute and Universidad de los Andes.

Course on complex networks, graph analytics, null models, communities, diffusion, and graph machine learning.

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.