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Welcome to my personal website! I am Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Assistant Professor (W2) of Societal Computing at the Technical Univerity of Munich and PI of the Civic Machines Lab at the TUM Think Tank, where I build tools and perform foundational research to make artificial intelligence algorithms more inclusive. My overall work focuses in studying and creating civic machines.

What are civic machines?


In 2000 the creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, introduced the concept of social machines to describe ecosystems, in which individuals and algorithms participate and interact detached from their materiality, forming complex interaction patterns. Among others, online social networks, algorithmic decision making (ADM) systems, search engines, are all types of social machines, with individuals, software and hardware constantly interacting and resulting in emergent system states.

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Civic machines are a subset of social machines, which are designed and function under the idea that technology should serve individuals and the society in a way that ensures equality, justice, political freedom and social inclusiveness.

Civic machines are the β€œtelos” of my empirical and theoretical investigations. Through my research, articles, talks, interviews, and other activities, I showcase political issues as functions of existing social machines and provide ideas, frameworks, and practical solutions towards just, inclusive and participatory socio-algorithmic ecosystems.

Contact me at orestis@civicmachines.com with any requests or if you just want to chat!



Updates

  • 1. January 2024
    I started as Assistant Professor of Societal Computing and PI of the Civic Machines Lab at the Technical University of Munich πŸ₯³.
  • 1. August 2023
    This year, I will be again the Diversity and Inclusion Chair of ICWSM 24. Hit me up if you have recommendations πŸ˜€.
  • 5. June 2023
    Our study Augmented datasheets for speech datasets and ethical decision making is presented at this years FAccT conference😍.
  • 1. June 2023
    Glad to be joining the steering committee of the FAccT Conference πŸ₯³.
  • 1. May 2023
    Our paper Upvotes? Downvotes? No Votes? Understanding the relationship between reaction mechanisms and political discourse on Reddit was presented at CHI 2023😍
  • 28. Feb 2023
    Our short paper Considerations for Ethical Speech Recognition Datasets was presented at WSDM 2023😍
  • 1. Sept 2022
    I am delighted to join the AI Ethics team of Sony AI as research scientist πŸ€– πŸ˜€.
  • 13. Dec 2021
    Our study Qualitative Analysis for Human Centered AI was presented in the Workshop Human Centered AI at NeurIPS 2021😍
  • 5. Dec 2021
    I gave an interview to Financial Times on Industry-Academic research partnerships
  • 1. Dec 2021
    Glad to be volunteers co-chair (again) at this year's FAccT Conference
  • 1. July 2021
    Our study on Media behavior during the rise of Trump was published at AAAI ICWSM 2021 πŸ₯³
  • 20. April 2021
    A theoretic piece I wrote on socio-algorithmic ecosystems was published at AI & Society πŸ€—
  • 15. Sept 2020
    I gave an interview to Deepnews.AI on conspiracy theories and content moderation
  • 15. Sept 2020
    I gave an interview to Deepnews.AI on conspiracy theories and content moderation
  • 1.Sept 2020
    Starting today I am post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton CITP πŸ€– πŸ˜€
  • 29.July 2020
    Our talk on political Communication on TikTok won the best video presentation award< at IC2S2 2020
  • 11.July 2020
    Our paper on political Communication on TikTok won the best paper presentation award at 2020 ACM Conference for Web Science
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Email: orestis@civicmachines.com

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