Postdoctoral Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I work on computational social science, applying NLP and machine learning to questions about political conflict, democratic backsliding, and digital governance.
Currently on the Horizon Europe TWIN4DEM project, building machine learning frameworks to model threats to democratic institutions.
- Co-developer of ConfliBERT and ConflLlama, domain-specific language models for political conflict text
- Internet censorship and content moderation across regime types
- Digital twins of political systems for modeling democratic backsliding
- Fine-tuning LLMs for detecting executive aggrandizement in political text
- ConfliBERT GUI -- Browser-based inference and fine-tuning for conflict text analysis
- conflibertR -- R package for ConfliBERT inference, fine-tuning, and model comparison
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