Germans Savcisens

Hi, I'm Germans Savcisens — a Postdoctoral Associate Researcher at the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. I work at the intersection of network science, machine learning, and human behavior as part of the Rad Lab and the Network Science Institute.

My research focuses on making machine learning models more transparent, secure, and better suited for understanding social and behavioral data. I enjoy thinking about how algorithms shape — and are shaped by — the complex networks we live in.

Before coming to Boston, I earned my PhD in Computational Social Science from the Technical University of Denmark, working with the Social Complexity Lab. There, I explored how foundation models can help us understand individual life trajectories in socioeconomic and health domains, see life2vec paper.

I grew up in Latvia, where I spent the first 19 years of my life before moving to Copenhagen to continue my studies. Today, I call Boston home — but I still carry a bit of the Baltic spirit with me wherever I go.