Lunch Hour Seminar: Camille Roth

Seminar Announcement

Title: “Algorithmic recommendation in online systems: Principles, effects, uses”

Date: Thursday 27.05.2021
Time: 18:00-19:00 (UTC+3)

Zoom Meeting ID: 916 9702 2718
Passcode: 786757

BIO: Camille Roth has been holding a research professorship at CNRS since 2008 in computer science while he also had a couple of tenured university positions in sociology, at Sciences Po as Associate Professor and in Toulouse as Assistant Professor. His research thus lies at the interface between social and computational sciences, featuring keywords such as socio-semantic systems, social cognition, algorithms and mathematical sociology. He founded in 2012 and currently leads the computational social science team at Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin and currently supervises a team of several doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.  He is currently the recipient of an ERC Consolidator grant called Socsemics on socio-semantic networks and over the past decade has been global or local PI for several multi-institution research projects, both at the French and European level, on blog networks, scientific communities, and peer-to-peer platforms, including Webfluence, Algopol and Algodiv and QLectives. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. He is also associate member of CAMS.