Milena Tsvetkova is Associate Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. In 2026-27, she is also a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Milena completed her PhD in Sociology at Cornell University in 2015, followed by a postdoctoral position at the Oxford Internet Institute. In her research, she uses large-scale online experiments, network analysis, machine learning, and computational modeling to study fundamental social phenomena such as cooperation, contagion, conflict, segregation, and inequality. Currently, she is the Director of LSE’s HUMANET lab, funded by the ERC Consolidator grant with €2,000,000 in 2025–2030 to study networks and communities comprised of humans and intelligent machines such as algorithms and bots. Her work has been published in high-impact disciplinary and general science journals such as Sociological Methods and Research, New Media & Society, Nature Human Behaviour, and Science Advances, covered by major public media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and Euronews, and recognized with the Raymond Boudon Award for Early Career Achievement by the European Academy of Sociology.