Christos Nicolaides is a Lecturer in Management Science  and a Marie S. Curie Fellow at the Department of Business and Public Administration at University of Cyprus (UCY) and a Digital Fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before joining UCY, Christos was working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management funded by the James McDonnell Foundation. His research focus on applying mathematical, statistical and computational tools to large-scale empirical and data driven research questions with applications in identification of social influence that is mediated, amplified, or directed by interactive technologies.