Samer Hassan Explained

Samer Hassan
Birth Name:Samer Hassan Collado
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
Other Names:Samer Hassan Collado
Nationality:Spanish / Lebanese
Fields:Blockchain, Commons, Peer-to-peer, Agent-based modelling, Social simulation
Workplaces:Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University)
Alma Mater:Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Surrey
Doctoral Advisor:Juan Pavón, Millán Arroyo Mendéndez
Thesis Title:Towards a Data-driven Approach for Agent-Based Modelling: Simulating Spanish Postmodernisation
Thesis Year:2010
Awards:Triple Canopy, ERC Grant
Website:https://samer.hassan.name

Samer Hassan is a computer scientist, social scientist, activist and researcher, focused on the study of the collaborative economy, online communities and decentralized technologies. He is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid[1] (Spain) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.[2] He is the recipient of an ERC Grant of 1.5M€ with the P2P Models project, to research blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations for the collaborative economy.[3]

Education & career

Samer Hassan is a scholar with an interdisciplinary background, which combines computer sciences with social sciences and activism. He received a degree in Computer Science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in Spain. He also studied 3 years of Political Science at the distance learning university UNED.[4] He has then undertaken a PhD in Social Simulation at the department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence of UCM, supervised by the computer scientist Juan Pavón and the sociologist Millán Arroyo-Menéndez.[5]

He has been researching in several institutions, funded by several scholarships and awards, most notably Harvard's Real Colegio Complutense, and the Spanish postdoctoral grants Juan de la Cierva and José Castillejo.[6] Thus, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey in the UK, working under the supervision of Nigel Gilbert (2007-2008),[7] and a lecturer at the American University of Science and Technology in Lebanon (2010–11).[8] He was selected as Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (2015-2017)[9] and is presently a Faculty Associate at the same structure.[10]

Activism & social engagement

As an activist, Samer Hassan has been engaged in both offline (La Tabacalera de Lavapiés, Medialab-Prado)[11] and online (Ourproject.org,[12] Barrapunto,[13] Wikipedia[14]) initiatives. He was accredited as a grassroots facilitator by the Altekio Cooperative.[15] He co-founded the Comunes Nonprofit in 2009 and the Move Commons webtool project in 2010.[16] [17] He has co-organized practitioner-oriented workshops on platform co-ops and free/open source decentralized tools for communities,[18] and has presented his work in non-academic conferences of Mozilla,[19] the Internet Archive,[20] and others. As a privacy advocate, he co-created a course on cyber-ethics which has been teaching since 2013 (as of 2021).[21] [22] He was co-founder of the Sci-Fdi Spanish science-fiction magazine.[23] [24]

Work

Hassan's interdisciplinary research spans multiple fields, including online communities,[25] online governance, online collaboration, decentralized technologies,[26] blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations,[27] [28] free/libre/open source software,[29] Commons-based peer production,[30] agent-based social simulation,[31] social movements[32] and cyberethics.[33] He has published more than 60 works in these fields.[34]

Samer Hassan's PhD thesis focused on the methodological challenges for building data-driven social simulation models. The main model built simulated the transition from modern values to postmodern values in Spain. His methodological work also explored the combination of different Artificial Intelligence technologies, i.e. software agents with fuzzy logic, data mining, natural language processing, and microsimulation.[35]

In his postdoctoral period, he focused on experimenting with multiple software systems to facilitate the collaborative economy, e.g. semantic-web labelling for commons-based initiatives,[36] distribution of value in peer production communities,[37] agent-supported online assemblies,[38] decentralized real-time collaborative software,[39] decentralized blockchain based reputation,[40] or blockchain-enabled commons governance.[41]

Hassan was Principal Investigator of the UCM partner in the EU-funded P2Pvalue project on building decentralized web-tools for collaborative communities. As such, he led the team that created SwellRT, a federated backend-as-a-service focused to ease development of apps featuring real-time collaboration.[42] Intellectual Property of this project was transferred to the Apache Software Foundation in 2017.[43] As part of this research line, Hassan's team also develop two SwellRT-based apps, "Teem" for management of social collectives[44] [45] [46] and Jetpad, a federated real time editor.[47] [48] [49] [50] He presented the innovations concerning these software at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center[51] and Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society.[52]

Other research lines offered outcomes beyond publications. "Wikichron",[53] [54] [55] coled by Javier Arroyo, is a web tool to visualize MediaWiki community metrics, currently in production and available for third-parties. "Decentralized Science",[56] [57] [58] led by Hassan's PhD student Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés, is a framework to facilitate decentralized infrastructure and open peer review in the scientific publication process, which has been selected by the European Commission to receive funding as a spin-off social enterprise.[59] His research on blockchain and crowdfunding models[60] awarded him with a commission from Triple Canopy.[61] His team pushed forward a mapping of the ecosystem of blockchain for social good, led by the Joint Research Centre and published by the European Commission.[62]

As part of his ERC project P2P Models, Samer Hassan and his team –including Silvia Semenzin– are investigating whether blockchain technology and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations could contribute to improving the governance of commons-oriented communities, both online and offline.[63] Their work has been showcased for tackling the impact of blockchain on governance,[64] [65] proposing alternatives to the current sharing economy,[66] [67] [68] [69] [70] emerging forms of techno-social systems like NFTs,[71] [72] or giving relevance to gender issues in the field.[73] Hassan was invited to present the project achievements in Harvard Kennedy School, MIT Media Lab,[74] Harvard's Data Privacy Lab,[75] Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society,[76] and Harvard's SEAS EconCS.[77] British MP and Opposition Leader Ed Miliband showcased his research and its potential impact on policy.[78] The project made public its way of organizing[79] and its core values.[80] In particular, it has shown a commitment to diversity as a core value in hiring,[81] [82] or choosing case studies.[83] This may be related to Hassan being Spanish/Lebanese or using "he/they" as pronouns.[84]

Selected works

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Samer Hassan Collado at Universidad Complutense de Madrid .
  2. Web site: Samer Hassan at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard . 8 December 2019.
  3. Web site: P2PModels: Decentralized Blockchain-based Organizations for Bootstrapping the Collaborative Economy . 8 December 2019.
  4. News: Samer Hassan, nuevo ERC starting grant para la Complutense. Fernández. Jaime. 2018-01-30. 2019-12-10. Tribuna Complutense. Samer Hassan, new ERC Starting Grant for the Complutense. 14 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200814085838/http://tribuna.ucm.es/213/art3104.php.
  5. Hassan . Samer . Towards a Data-driven Approach for Agent-Based Modelling: Simulating Spanish Postmodernisation . 2009 . Universidad Complutense de Madrid . 225 . info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis .
  6. Web site: BOE.es - Documento BOE-A-2015-12976. www.boe.es. 2019-12-10.
  7. Web site: Samer Hassan at Surrey University. 2019-12-07.
  8. Web site: Contact Update: 2nd Round Scholarship Winners. Miemis. Venessa. 2011-07-02. emergent by design. en. 2019-12-23.
  9. Web site: Berkman Center Announces 2015-2016 Community . 19 October 2015.
  10. Web site: Samer Hassan at Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard . 2019-12-07.
  11. Web site: Move Commons. Medialab-Prado Madrid. es. 2019-12-10. 10 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191210165033/https://www.medialab-prado.es/actividades/move-commons. dead.
  12. Web site: Behind Comunes Comunes. comunes.org. 2019-12-10.
  13. Web site: Profile of Samer in Barrapunto. 2 November 2015. Barrapunto.com (Spanish Slashdot). https://web.archive.org/web/20180610165517/http://barrapunto.com/~Samer/. 10 June 2018. 23 December 2019.
  14. Web site: Short CV. 2014-11-30. Samer Hassan. en-US. 2019-12-23.
  15. Web site: Samer Hassan at Real Colegio Complutense . 8 December 2019.
  16. News: La era de la polinización cruzada. Gutiérrez. Bernardo. 2012-08-23. 20 Minutos. 2019-12-10.
  17. Web site: L'OpenWeek, format d'animation pour les tiers-lieux et espaces de coworking. Javelle. Eddie. 2012-03-15. Future of Work, télétravail, coworking, freelances. fr-FR. 2019-12-10.
  18. Web site: FLOSS4P2P Workshop Agenda. Pinchen. Chris. 2016-04-17. P2Pvalue blog. en-GB. 2019-12-23.
  19. Web site: Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/move commons - MozillaWiki. wiki.mozilla.org. 2019-12-23.
  20. Web site: What Is the Decentralized Web? 25 Experts Break it Down - Blog iSchool@Syracuse. 2016-07-22. ischoolonline.syr.edu. en. 2019-12-23.
  21. Web site: Facultad de Informática - Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madrid. Facultad de Informática-Universidad Complutense de. web.fdi.ucm.es. es. 2019-12-23.
  22. Web site: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. www.ucm.es. 2019-12-23.
  23. Web site: Sci-FdI 1 Ficha Biblioteca La Tercera Fundación. tercerafundacion.net. 2019-12-23.
  24. Web site: BUCM :: Sci·Fdi:Revista de ciencia ficción :: Biblioteca Complutense. webs.ucm.es. 2019-12-23.
  25. Web site: 21 April 2016 . The Commons Collaborative Economy Explodes in Barcelona . 2019-12-07.
  26. Web site: 30 April 2019 . Distributed technologies to bootstrap the sharing economy . 8 December 2019.
  27. Web site: 30 November 2018 . Reinventing the Collaborative Economy with Blockchain-driven Democratic Organizations . 8 December 2019.
  28. Hassan . Samer . Filippi . Primavera De . 2021-04-20 . Decentralized Autonomous Organization . Internet Policy Review . 10 . 2 . 10.14763/2021.2.1556 . 2197-6775 . 235559086 . free.
  29. Web site: Steal this Show with Samer Hassan . 8 December 2019.
  30. Web site: P2Pvalue. Decentralized technologies to support digital commons . 8 December 2019.
  31. Web site: Agent-Based Social Modeling and Simulation with Fuzzy Sets . 8 December 2019.
  32. Web site: 3 April 2018 . Samer Hassan at Digital Social Innovation Fair . 8 December 2019.
  33. Web site: Samer Hassan at Real Colegio Complutense .
  34. Web site: Samer Hassan - Google Scholar Citations . 2019-12-10 . scholar.google.com.
  35. Web site: Injecting Data into Simulation: Can Agent-Based Modelling Learn from Microsimulation?. videolectures.net. en. 2019-12-10.
  36. Web site: MOVE COMMONS: Labeling, opening and connecting social initiatives . 8 December 2019.
  37. De Filippi . Primavera . Hassan . Samer . Measuring Value in Commons-Based Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap between the Commons and the Market . The MoneyLab Reader, Institute of Network Cultures . 2015.
  38. Tenorio . Antonio . Hassan . Samer . Towards an Agent-supported Online Assembly: Prototyping a Collaborative Decision-Making Tool . COLLA 2014: The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications . 2014 . 8 December 2019.
  39. Ojanguren-Menendez . Paolo . Tenorio . Antonio . Hassan . Samer . Building Real-Time Collaborative Applications with a Federated Architecture . International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence . 2015 . 3 . 5 . 47 . 10.9781/ijimai.2015.356 . 8 December 2019. free .
  40. Web site: Hassan . Samer . De Filippi . Primavera . Reputation and Quality Indicators to improve Community Governance . 8 December 2019.
  41. Rozas . David . Tenorio-Fornés . Antonio . Díaz-Molina . Silvia . Hassan . Samer . March 26, 2021 . When Ostrom Meets Blockchain: Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance . SAGE Open . en . 11 . 1 . 215824402110025 . 10.1177/21582440211002526 . 2158-2440.
  42. Web site: A substantial boost for easily and safely producing new online apps. 8 December 2019.
  43. Web site: March2017 - Incubator Wiki. wiki.apache.org. 2019-12-10.
  44. News: Collaboration that doesn't give others a license to distribute your stuff. Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine. 2019-12-10. en. 9 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170909144408/https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/collaboration-doesn-t-give-others-license-distribute-your-stuff_en.html. dead.
  45. Web site: Una app para involucrar a más gente en proyectos colaborativos - El salmón contracorriente. www.elsalmoncontracorriente.es. es. 2019-12-10.
  46. Web site: Teem. Teem. en-US. 2019-12-10.
  47. Web site: European Commission: CORDIS: News and Events: A substantial boost for easily and safely producing new online apps. cordis.europa.eu. 2019-12-10.
  48. Web site: Democracia radical a golpe de app. Público. Público (Spain). 2016-12-08. Público. es. 2019-12-10.
  49. Web site: Notes on "How P2P Will Save the World". Haste. Rough. 2017-04-23. RoughHaste. 2019-12-10.
  50. Web site: JetPad. jetpad.net. 2019-12-10.
  51. Web site: Translating Research into Online Tools to Increase Participation in Collaborative Communities. 2019-07-20. Berkman Klein Center. en. 2019-12-10.
  52. Web site: SwellRT: Facilitating decentralized real-time collaboration. crcs.seas.harvard.edu. en. 2019-12-10.
  53. Web site: WikiChron - Welcome. Juste. Abel 'Akronix' Serrano. wikichron.science. en. 2019-12-10.
  54. Web site: Wikichron. wikipapers.referata.com. 2019-12-10.
  55. Book: Serrano. Abel. Arroyo. Javier. Hassan. Samer. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration . Participation Inequality in Wikis . 2018. OpenSym '18. New York, NY, USA. ACM. 12:1–12:7. 10.1145/3233391.3233536. 978-1-4503-5936-8. 51867176. https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/59637/7/OpenSym2018_paper_311.pdf .
  56. Web site: Decentralized Science. decentralized.science. 2019-12-10. 10 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191210155319/https://decentralized.science/. dead.
  57. Book: Tenorio-Fornés. Antonio. Jacynycz. Viktor. Llop-Vila. David. Sánchez-Ruiz. Antonio. Hassan. Samer. 2019-01-08. Towards a Decentralized Process for Scientific Publication and Peer Review using Blockchain and IPFS. 10.24251/HICSS.2019.560. 978-0-9981331-2-6. 92988902 .
  58. Tenorio-Fornés . Ámbar . Tirador . Elena Pérez . Sánchez-Ruiz . Antonio A. . Hassan . Samer . 2021-11-01 . Decentralizing science: Towards an interoperable open peer review ecosystem using blockchain . Information Processing & Management . 58 . 6 . 102724 . 10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102724 . 0306-4573. free .
  59. Web site: LEDGER selects 16 human-centric projects working on decentralised technologies to enter its Venture Builder programme. Ledger: European Commission NGI Programme. en-GB. 2019-12-10. 10 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191210155248/https://ledgerproject.eu/index.php/2019/05/30/ledger-selects-16-human-centric-projects-working-on-decentralised-technologies-to-enter-its-venture-builder-programme/. dead.
  60. Book: Jacynycz. Viktor. Calvo. Adrian. Hassan. Samer. Sánchez-Ruiz. Antonio A.. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 13th International Conference . Betfunding: A Distributed Bounty-Based Crowdfunding Platform over Ethereum . 2016. Omatu. Sigeru. Semalat. Ali. Bocewicz. Grzegorz. Sitek. Paweł. Nielsen. Izabela E.. García García. Julián A.. Bajo. Javier. 474. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. en. Springer International Publishing. 403–411. 10.1007/978-3-319-40162-1_44. 978-3-319-40162-1.
  61. Web site: Submissions. Triple Canopy. en. 2019-12-10.
  62. Book: Scanning the European ecosystem of distributed ledger technologies for social and public good: what, why, where, how, and ways to move forward.. Publications Office of the European Union. 2020. 978-92-76-21577-6. Polvora A, Hakami A, Bol E. Luxembourg. 10.2760/300796. Hassan, S. . Brekke, J.K. . Atzori, M. . Bodó, B. . Meiklejohn, S. . De Filippi, P. . Beecroft, K. . Rozas, D. . Orgaz Alonso, C. . Martínez Vicente, E. . Lopéz Morales, G. . Figueras Aguilar, A. .
  63. Web site: Can Blockchain Facilitate the Governance of Commons-oriented Communities? . 5 December 2018 . 8 December 2019.
  64. News: The dangers of the crypto-polar utopia (translated from German). Lobe. Von Adrian. 2018-04-08. Süddeutsche Zeitung. 2019-12-10. de. 0174-4917.
  65. Web site: 2019-06-10. Blockchains: Distributed ledgers but centrally controlled processes?. 2021-07-24. American Enterprise Institute - AEI. en-US.
  66. Web site: Samer Hassan. 2019-10-14. Digital Future Society. en-US. 2019-12-10.
  67. Web site: Annenberg-Oxford: Creative Approaches to Media Challenges. 2018. Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute Program. 2019-12-10.
  68. News: Who owns the collaborative economy? (translated from Spanish). López. Genoveva. 2019-04-22. El Salto. 2019-12-10. es.
  69. Web site: 2021-07-09. Decentralizing Power and Value with P2P Models Berkman Klein Center. 2021-07-24. cyber.harvard.edu. en.
  70. Web site: Hassan. Samer. 2020-12-08. Toward a Digital Economy That's Truly Collaborative, Not Exploitative. 2021-07-24. The Reboot. en-US.
  71. Web site: López. Genoveva. Lorite. Álvaro. NFT, ¿ángel o demonio en el mundo del arte digital?. 2021-07-24. www.elsaltodiario.com. Spanish.
  72. Carne Cruda - Robots que curan y bots fascistas (A CIENCIAS Y A LOCAS #547). es. Eldiario.es. 2019. Raw meat - Robots that heal and fascist bots (Cracy science #547).
  73. Web site: Elena Martinez and Silvia Díaz of P2P Models on Blockchain, Feminism and Affective P2P . 31 July 2018 . 10 December 2019.
  74. Web site: Collaborative Economy/Blockchain Talk by Samer Hassan. MIT Digital Currency Initiative. en-US. 2019-12-10. 10 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191210131923/https://dci.mit.edu/dcieventscalendar/samerhassantalk.
  75. Web site: Talks on Technology Science (ToTS) and Topics in Privacy (TIP) - Data Privacy Lab. Talks on Technology Science. 2019-12-10.
  76. Web site: Samer Hassan: Towards a New Collaborative Economy: Decentralizing Power and Value with Blockchain. crcs.seas.harvard.edu. en. 2019-12-10.
  77. Web site: Samer_Hassan 2017 09 15-EconCS_Seminar-. SEAS video. en. 2019-12-10.
  78. Web site:
    1. 45: BLOCKCHAIN PARTY: Can it be a force for good?
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  79. Web site: Publications . 2024-04-20 . P2P Models . en-US.
  80. Web site: About . 2024-04-20 . P2P Models . en-US.
  81. Web site: Oficina Europea de I+D Universidad Complutense de Madrid . 2024-04-20 . oficinaeuropea.ucm.es.
  82. Web site: Jobs in P2PModels . 2024-04-20 . P2P Models . en-US.
  83. Web site: 2020-04-01 . The criteria we use to choose a case study in P2P Models . 2024-04-20 . P2P Models . en-US.
  84. Web site: Samer Hassan's Twitter . 20 Apr 2024 . X (Twitter).

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