Yen-chieh Liao
Affiliate Fellow At Institute For Data And AI
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYen-chieh Liao is an affiliate fellow and computational political researcher with eight years’ experience bridging comparative politics and AI-driven methods. He completed a PhD project on Taiwan’s electoral reform using ideal point estimation and now applies NLP and deep learning to legislative speeches, social media, and even facial/vocal cues to quantify polarization and internal conflict. His roles at University of Birmingham, Birmingham CAIG, Bamberg and UCD reflect a mix of hands-on data scraping across parliaments and methodological teaching in quantitative text analysis. Yen-chieh’s work is notable for combining traditional legislative studies with novel multimodal approaches—using speech, text and visual signals—to uncover subtle drivers of representation and pork-barrel behavior. He has secured competitive funding (Taiwan Government Scholarship, MOST TOP Grant) and contributes to cross-national datasets that support comparative oversight research. Based in the UK, he brings both policy domain expertise on the Legislative Yuan and practical technical skills in computational social science.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science and Government at University of EssexMaster of Arts - MA Public Administration and Public Policy, Master of Arts - MA Public Administration and Public Policy at National Taipei University
Github Skills (60)
flair10
r-package10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
quanteda10
parliamentary-data10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
udpipe10
part-of-speech-tagger10
hierarchical9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
uniofessex/asmcjr
May 2020 - Jan 2023
The asmcjr package supports the book “2nd Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment”, and streamlined functions for analysing and visualising estimates with ggplot2
Contributions:148 commits, 59 PRs, 524 pushes in 2 years 8 months
analyzinggeostatisticsggplot2spatialspatial-models
davidycliao/flaiR
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
flairR: Bring Amazing Flair NLP to R
Contributions:2 releases, 284 PRs, 1249 pushes in 1 year 5 months
flairhuggingface-transformersnamed-entity-recognitionnatural-language-processingner
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