I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at American University. My research is at the intersection of computational political science, natural language processing, and digital studies. Specifically, I develop measurement methods for political science using AI/ML and NLP. These methods address research questions about topics such as political elite and non-elite ideology, affective polarization on social media, and hateful and abusive speech and memes. Additional research interests include human-AI interaction, multimodal machine learning, and political behavior.
Education
University of Michigan | PhD in Political Science and Scientific Computing, MA in Statistics
University of Chicago | BA in Political Science and Statistics