About the Author

Dr. Milo Trujillo (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Ethics Lab at the Vermont Complex Systems Institute as part of the Science of Online Corpora Knowledge and Stories (SOCKS) project. Additionally, he is a lecturer at the Network Science Institute of Northeastern University. Milo is further affiliated with Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Media Landscape Lab, the Reddit Bandits, and is a data scientist at Distributed Denial of Secrets. Milo studies how groups organize, govern, and interact, through patterns in our social artifacts. This has included research on content moderation, platform migration, online extremism, and police behavior. He uses tools from network science, statistics and machine learning, natural language processing, and social sciences.

Before his current appointment, Milo was Associate Director of the CoMM Lab at the Network Science Institute. He was a PhD student in the Joint Lab and BagLab at the University of Vermont, and was previously a computer and social scientist in the Information Trust Group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Milo has a prior background in computer security, and co-taught an introductory course for RPISEC, RPI’s computer security club, for three semesters. During this period he founded the Daylighting Society to collaborate on privacy, surveillance, and security work.

Sometimes he writes about himself in the third person. You can see him write more on Mastodon, Bluesky, and GitHub. He’s also on LinkedIn, but unless you’ve met in person he prefers to remain LinkedOut.

Academic Links:

• Curriculum Vitae

• Semantic Scholar Profile

• Google Scholar Profile

• ORCID

• Network Science Institute Profile

• CoMM Lab Profile

• Joint-Lab Profile

• Harvard IQSS Profile

• Pairoducks Profile