Allison Koh | Computational Political Scientist

Hi! 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 digital authoritarianism and applications of AI for human rights monitoring. My dissertation project investigated how vulnerabilities in social media companies’ transparency and content moderation policies can benefit the foreign policy interests of authoritarian regimes.

My work has been greatly informed by previous international experience, which includes work at international nonprofits, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia and a Gilman Scholarship to support study abroad in China. There’s no better way to learn about how international politics works than through navigating it firsthand.

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.