Patrick Chester
Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology
Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Chester is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science and former postdoctoral researcher who applies word embeddings, large language models, and other computational methods to measure propaganda, censorship, and power relations in Chinese media. With a PhD in political science from NYU and nearly a decade of research experience, he builds large Chinese news corpora and novel text-as-data techniques to detect rhetorical strategies and state-influenced messaging. He teaches international politics and quantitative methods while translating cutting-edge machine learning tools into rigorous political science measurement. His background includes field experience teaching and managing international ESL programs and early research on maritime conflict, signaling strong cross-cultural communication and interdisciplinary data skills. Patrick’s work uniquely blends computational linguistics and political theory to make latent authoritarian information strategies observable and empirically testable.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science; Comp. Politics and International Relations, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science; Comp. Politics and International Relations at University of Minnesota MorrisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government at New York UniversityMaster of Pacific and International Affairs, Internatinoal Politics; Chinese, Master of Pacific and International Affairs, Internatinoal Politics; Chinese at University of California, San Diego - School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS)Beijing Foreign Studies University
English, Chinese, Korean
Github Skills (53)
tex9
latex9
quanteda9
filetype8
distributions8
console7
vim-plugin7
linux7
neovim7
vim7
code-runner7
pygobject7
nlp7
neovim-plugin6
file-manager6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pchest/Text_as_Data
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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pchest/nvim-config
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
A modern Neovim configuration with full battery for Python, Lua, C++, Markdown, LaTeX, and more...
Contributions:58 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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