Slava Jankin

Deputy Director at University of Birmingham

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Slava Jankin is a Chair in Data Science and Government and Deputy Director at the Institute for Data and Artificial Intelligence, blending a decade of leadership in computational social science with hands-on programme and centre building. He has founded and directed major research centres at Birmingham, Hertie and Essex, secured multimillion-pound funding awards, and launched innovative MSc programmes in AI for government and sustainable development. His research bridges political science, AI and environmental policy, with notable work on digital twins for policy innovation and multilingual analysis of political discourse. As The Alan Turing Institute academic lead and director of the Centre for AI in Government, he translates methodological innovation into policy impact, including Horizon-funded projects monitoring public perceptions of climate change. Unusually for an academic leader, he combines deep governance expertise with operational roles in local government and fintech advisory, reflecting a rare mix of scholarly rigor and practical public-sector delivery.
code10 years of coding experience
job13 years of employment as a software developer
bookChinese Studies, Chinese Studies at Beijing Language and Culture University
bookDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin
bookEconomics, Economics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
bookBachelor's degree, International Economics, Bachelor's degree, International Economics at Belaruski Dzjaržauny Ekanamièny Universitet
languagesEnglish, German, Russian, Russian, Chinese
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Github Skills (46)

corpus10
text-analytics10
quanteda10
r-package9
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
textual9
glove9
text-mining9
quantitative8
natural-language-processing8
wordnet8
topic-modeling8
ecology8
r8
word2vec8

Programming languages (3)

RHTMLJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

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sjankin/sjankin.github.io

Dec 2018 - Feb 2022

Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:88 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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sjankin/lancet

Dec 2018 - Oct 2022

Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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Slava Jankin - Deputy Director at University of Birmingham