I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at Northeastern University, working with Nick Beauchamp in the Network Science Institute. My dissertation, Exposure Diversity and Character in Political Segregation Online, develops computational frameworks to measure how patterns of exposure in digital spaces relate to the formation of political attitudes and collective identities.
My research studies how political divisions form and how communities withstand them — and builds the computational tools needed to do both rigorously. In Segregation, I study how ideological, affective, and social divisions form and harden — using LLM-based classification to decompose anti-Americanism in nearly 96,000 Turkish tweets, and relational event models to show that transnational expert networks segregate along national rather than professional lines. In Resilience, I examine how communities withstand and recover from crises — from the diverging costs of social capital after the Marshall Fire, to a Delphi survey asking crisis professionals what “polycrisis” actually means. In Political Methodology, I develop tools the field needs to do this work: detecting structural shocks in networks, and confronting the validity gap when LLMs annotate political attitudes. In Anthropology of Machines, I turn the lens on AI itself, using mechanistic interpretability to ask whether LLMs encode stable political dispositions or merely mirror their interlocutors.
Across these clusters, I build and interrogate the computational tools — network analysis, NLP, large language models — that let political scientists ask questions the discipline couldn’t pose a decade ago. I co-founded the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in Istanbul and organized it for three years. I recently led a CS Bootcamp at The Ethics Institute, teaching Python, machine learning, and LLM development to philosophy and CS graduate students.
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Dissertation
Exposure Diversity and Character in Political Segregation Online Dissertation
How do online environments structure political segregation through patterns of exposure diversity? Details forthcoming.
Research
Segregation — Domestic and global political division: anti-Americanism, anti-Westernism, epistemic elite networks
Resilience — Crisis response from polycrisis to post-disaster recovery
Political Methodology — Network dynamics under shocks, LLM annotation validity
Anthropology of Machines — Political sycophancy in LLMs
Recent
- Mar 2026 — Details forthcoming
- Jan 2026 — Details forthcoming
- Fall 2025 — Details forthcoming