Allison Koh | Computational Political Scientist

I am a Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government. I recently earned my PhD at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin.

My research interests lie at the intersection of international relations, political communication, and computational social science, with a focus on the geopolitics of emerging technologies and applications of generative AI in conflict research. In my dissertation, I outlined the strategic landscape of digital transnational repression on social media and identified how vulnerabilities in social media companies’ transparency and content moderation policies benefit the foreign policy interests of authoritarian regimes.

Beyond my research, I enjoy teaching others how to code and prioritize accommodating a variety of learning differences in my classroom. I am available to lead workshops on data management and visualization in R/Python, typesetting with LaTeX/Quarto, and web data collection in R.

I am currently based in London. Feel free to reach out to discuss potential opportunities, areas of mutual interest, or to grab a 🍵 or 🍺 around London or Birmingham.