Almog Simchon
Assistant Professor at The Department of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Be'er Sheva, South District, Israel
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Top SchoolAlmog Simchon is an Assistant Professor and director of the Computational Social Psychology Lab at Ben-Gurion University, specializing in how social networks and language shape political polarization, misinformation, and democratic resilience. With eight years of research experience spanning PhD work and a senior post at the University of Bristol, he combines experimental social psychology with large-scale data analytics, machine learning, and NLP to build predictive models of behavior. His work uniquely bridges theory and applied interventions, seeking tools that mitigate anti-democratic processes both online and offline. He also studies language as a psychological signal—using linguistic features and LLMs to reveal attitudes, emotions, and markers of psychopathology. Based in Be'er Sheva, he blends cognitive, political, and computational approaches to inform policy-relevant solutions for social cohesion.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Github Skills (24)
jupyter-book7
corpus6
jupyterlab5
statistics5
text-analytics5
r5
r-package5
jupyter4
natural-language-processing4
jupyter-notebook4
text-mining4
quantitative4
science4
textual3
data-visualization3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
almogsi/hebnoRms
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 34 pushes in 1 year 11 months
almogsi/almogsi
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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