Using data driven methods from statistics and machine learning, my work lies at the intersection between social science and computer science.
I am Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. Prior to that, I was at Oxford University and worked as a Data Scientist in industry. I graduated with a PhD in Political Science from the Graduate School of the University of Mannheim.
You can read my Political Science papers in the Journal of Politics or International Interactions, among others. I presented findings relevant to Computer Science at the International Conference on Machine Learning and the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy Workshop Series.
I regularly collaborate with private and public institutions as a consultant.
News
May 2023 I am again running an Introduction to Deep Learning at Comptext 2023. Watch the conference homepage if you want to enroll. And Andreas Küpfer will also present our paper “Making the Most of Multimodal Data”.
April 2023 At the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology of Newcastle University, I am teaching a workshop on Machine Learning.
March 2023 I am joining the Financial Control Authority (UK) on challenges in using synthetic data for innovations in financial services.
March 2023 I am presenting our paper on Multimodal Alignment at the Connected_Politics Lab at UCD (with Andreas Küpfer).
February 2023 The module homepage for the flipped PL9239 Intro to Data Science is live again.
December 2022 This year, I will be teaching the Masterclass on Deep Learning at the Q-Step Centre in Warwick on December 7th. To book, follow this link.
October 2022 At the departmental research meeting in Cardiff, I am presenting the full view of our multipaper project on the politics of time.
October 2022 I am presenting “The Politics of the Psychological Distance” (with Hannah Bechara and Slava Jankin) at the University of Glasgow.
September 2022 Looking forward to presenting our paper “The Politics of the Psychological Distance” (with Hannah Bechara and Slava Jankin) also at APSA 2022 in Montréal.
August 2022 I am teaching again at the Hertie Data Science Summer School, this time a workshop on Deep Learning for Multi-Model Systems. You can register here.
June 2022 We will present our paper “The Politics of the Psychological Distance” (with Hannah Bechara and Slava Jankin) at EPSA 2022 in Prague.
May 2022 How to use Computer Vision for PolSci? Talk at Hertie’s Data Science Lab.