Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of circa 2 million euros for his project "Counterfact: Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines."
Social & Information Systems
Social computing research at MPI-SWS focuses on developing computational methods for processing and analyzing large-scale social data, aiming to uncover complex social behavior and to inform the design of human-centered and socially aware systems. Recent research includes understanding the structure of social networks and how information, ideas, and influence disseminate over social links, finding relevant and trustworthy sources of information in crowds, and developing frameworks for tracking the relation between a user and its community.
