About

I am a Postdoctoral researcher with the Platial Analysis and Urban Politics and Governance labs at McGill University. You can find my CV here.

My primary interests are two-fold.

1️⃣ I work on the application of statistical methods in general and natural language processing in particular to complex social problems.

2️⃣ I am investigating the epistemological and historical foundations of natural language processing and large-language modeling, from the postwar cybernetics movement to contemporary practices.

Projects

Some of my projects and publications include:

• 🗺️ Private-information retrieval (PIR) tile-serving and NLP for Drift Maps
• 🏙️ Data-driven analyses on rental market financialization (JAPA) and the linguistic markers of gentrification (EMNLP, GIScience)
• 📖 Genealogical and critical work on the epistemological foundations of distributional semantics (NAACL)