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Greetings,

I am an Assistant Professor of international affairs in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech.

My research is focused on understanding the ways in which emerging communications technologies, especially social media, influence group and individual behavior for political violence. Specifically, I focus on the potential for political radicalization within online communities, and under what conditions this radicalization spills over from online to offline spaces. I utilize the tools of computational social science including machine learning, network analysis, natural language processing, and various statistical methods to observe political radicalization across social media forums and understand how these new technologies impact political identities to facilitate or hinder collective action

My research has been published in leading journals and university presses in the field including the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Computational Social Science, and Oxford University Press, among others.

I teach courses on quantitative research design including regression modeling and machine learning, as well as political violence at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

I am actively seeking qualified Political Science, Computer Science, and Engineering graduate students, as well as exceptional undergraduates, to assist me on various research projects.

Please view my Publications page for recent examples of my research and see my CV for my professional contact information.

Aside from scholarly activities, I also enjoy the culinary arts, finding the perfect cup of coffee, heavy metal mosh pits, bodybuilding and powerlifting, classic cars, and baseball.