Loizos Bitsikokos

About Me

I am a PhD student in Communication at Purdue University, specializing in Media, Technology, and Society, advised by Prof. Jeremy Foote. My research approaches online platforms and digitality critically, exploring how platforms influence interactions and focusing on the interplay between algorithmic systems and society. I hold degrees (BSc, MSc) in physics and applied mathematics from the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) and an MA in computational social science from the University of Chicago (MACSS), focusing on sociology. The Onassis Foundation Scholarship program supports my PhD work.

Methodologically I am focusing on computational text analysis methods (embeddings, topic modelling, sentiment analysis), as well as network analysis and simulation.

Oh, I'm also a member of the Community Data Science Collective (CDSC), a cool bunch of people you might want to check out.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate or discuss research ideas.

Research

• Geometry Project (with Joe Helbing and Prof. Jeremy Foote): Assessing the external validity of geometric measures of meaning in Word Embedding Spaces
• Categorization Project: A study of content categorization systems in online platforms
• Justice Project (with Prof. Rafe Stolzenberg): A social network analysis of U.S. district court citational networks

Teaching

During my time at the University of Chicago I served as a Teaching Assistant for the following graduate courses:

• MACS 40101 Social Network Analysis taught by Prof. Sabrina Nardin.
• MACS 30500 Computing for the Social Sciences taught by Prof. Jean Clipperton
• MACS 33000 Computational Math Camp taught by Prof. Jean Clipperton
• SOSC 36006 Foundations for Statistical Theory taught by Prof. Yanyan Sheng

Contact

Email: lbitsiko@purdue.edu

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