I am the Associate Vice Provost for Data Science at the University of Pittsburgh and hold the William S. Dietrich II Chair of Political Science. I am also the Assistant Director of the Center for Research Computing and Data, co-Direct the Computational Social Science program, and am an affiliate scholar in the Intelligent Systems Program at the School of Computing and Information. I lead the Responsible Data Science, Complexity, and AI for Peace (RedSCAIP Lab) which is a collaboration with students to bring computing and social science together to solve societal challenges. I am also an external research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
My work leverages the accelerating availability of computational tools and digitized text to analyze patterns of national security secrecy and oversight, international and intrastate violence, and changes in human rights over time. I work with the Violence Early Warning System (ViEWS) team at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and University of Uppsala. My work has been funded by several NSF grants as well as by the Hillman foundation and the RK Mellon foundation.