We are delighted to announce that Milo Trujillo has successfully defended his Ph.D. in Complex Systems and Data Science on July 18th. Milo’s dissertation, “Building a kinder superhighway: Online group behavior driven by platform design and social policy”, explores how governance models and platform design influence community behavior, with implications for social media, open-source communities, and decentralized systems. Co-advised by Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and James Bagrow, Milo’s research contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of online communities. Milo’s work includes studies on the effects of community bans on Reddit, the rise of alt-tech social media platforms, and comparisons of open-source collaboration on and off GitHub.

Milo is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the CoMM Lab at the Network Science Institute, where he will continue to explore the intersection of social policy and online community behavior.

Congratulations, Milo, on this incredible achievement, and best of luck in your new role! We will miss your incredible generosity and seemingly limitless knowledge of hacking culture.

Watch his defense here.