Allison Koh
Research Fellow In Natural Language Processing
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAllison Koh is a research-focused NLP specialist with nine years of experience applying computational methods to the study of political texts and online dissent, most recently holding research fellow roles at the University of Birmingham and the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security. Her PhD dissertation, "Platformed Power Plays: Authoritarian Adaptations in Foreign Social Media Spaces," reflects deep expertise in digital authoritarianism and cross-border information dynamics. She combines rigorous causal inference and NLP skills with practical data science tooling—particularly in R and data visualization—to support reproducible research and cloud-based workflows. A versatile collaborator, Allison has partnered with academic centers in London and New York and has a track record of translating complex political questions into computationally tractable projects. Her background in policy analysis and field-facing roles gives her work a rare blend of methodological rigor and policy relevance.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Exchange, Semester Exchange at Donghua UniversityPhD Political Science, PhD Political Science at Hertie SchoolHerricks High SchoolBSc Economics Asian Studies, BSc Economics Asian Studies at Tulane University
English, Chinese, Italian, Malay
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Github Skills (14)
utility-mod8
minecraft7
r-package4
base-r2
data-management2
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classification1
python1
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machine-learning1
data-visualization1
visualization1
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
allisonkoh/tidytuesday
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 19 pushes in 2 months
allisonkoh/helpful-code-stuff
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 41 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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