Manuel Gomez Rodriguez is a tenure-track faculty at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. He develops human-centered machine learning models and algorithms for the analysis, modeling and control of social, information and networked systems. He has co-authored over 50 publications in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, WWW, KDD, WSDM, AAAI) and journals (PNAS, Nature Communications, JMLR). Manuel holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carlos III University in Madrid (Spain), a MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and has received postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.