Master's Degree in Data Science
Sapienza University of Rome
Expected Graduation Date: July 2025.
About Me
Personal Information
Hola, I'm Miguel! I am a M.Sc. student in Data Science at the Sapienza University of Rome. I am very passionate about Network Science and Complexity Science in general. In particular, I am interested in the data-driven modeling of social systems to study echo chamber behavior, polarization, inequality, and other effects of human-AI co-evolution on social media. I like to expand my horizons and I am open to collaborate on topics that potentially can have a social impact and that can be addressed using the tools of Network Science, Machine Learning and Data Science.
In the past few years I completed my B.Sc. in Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and worked as a Data Scientist at Vivanta, where I developed tools to obtain, handle, standardize, and analyze health data from wearable devices. Currently, I am working on my Master's thesis at CENTAI under the supervision of Dr. Corrado Monti and Dr. Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, studying the dynamics of interactions between Reddit users, with a special focus on the demographic characteristics of influential political/fringe communities using Network Science tools.
In my spare time I also volunteer at NetPLACE, where we organize bi-weekly seminars where young researchers talk about their research and about the difficulties encountered in their academic path beyond their specific research questions. If you're interested to give a talk, please reach out or fill the form on the website.
My Name
My full name consists of 4 names: 2 first names (Miguel Ángel) and 2 last names (Sánchez Cortés). This is common in Latin American countries (such as Mexico, my home country) and Spain. In future publications, you will find me as Miguel Á. Sánchez-Cortés in order to avoid confusion with too many names.
