Mattia Samory
Associate Professor
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolMattia Samory is an associate professor and social computing researcher based in Rome with a decade of experience at the intersection of technology and human-centered platforms. His work focuses on creating symbiosis between users and social platforms, notably automating moderation of online trolls and detecting viewpoints in online discussions through semi-supervised and data-driven methods. He has progressed from research roles at Padova and Virginia Tech to leadership positions at GESIS and now Sapienza, blending rigorous PhD-level engineering with applied social-science methods. Known for translating messy, unannotated community data into practical machine learning solutions, he brings both academic depth and hands-on technical craft to problems of online safety and platform design.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Engineering at Università degli Studi di Padova
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (2)
python5
theory3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hide-ous/pytangle
May 2020 - Oct 2020
python wrapper for crowdtangle
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 78 commits in 5 months
python310pythoncrowdtanglepython-wrapperpython3
hide-ous/fear
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
study of fear in conspiracy theory discussion communities
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 months
conspiracy-theoryconspiracytheorycommunities
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