Nicholas Beauchamp
Associate Professor of Political Science
Nick Beauchamp is a core faculty member of the Network Science Institute and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. His research uses techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and network analysis to examine how discussion, argument and deliberation affect political opinion in domains such as legislatures, campaigns, the judiciary, and social media. Recent work has included: using Twitter data to model deliberation and to predict political polls; tracing hate language evolution in individuals online; modeling presidential debates; using neural networks to predict votes from bill text; designing machine-human collaborations to forecast world events; and algorithmically generated persuasive text. He is currently working on a larger series of projects that model political deliberation as the strategic exchange of ideas drawn from complex mental networks of interlinked beliefs. More information about his work can be found at nickbeauchamp.com.
- Henry McCracken Fellowship, New York University, 2006-2012
- Bradley Fellowship, New York University, 2009-2012
- Research Fellowship, New York University, 2007, 2008
- Johns Hopkins Technology Fellowship, 2003
- Honors in Philosophy, Honors in English, Yale University, 1996
- Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction, Yale University, 1996
- Lloyd Mifflin Prize for Outstanding Work in English, Yale University, 1996
- Albert H. Smyth Scholarship, Yale University, 1992
- “A Bottom-up Approach to Linguistic Persuasion in Advertising,” Research Note in The Political Methodologist, Fall 2011
- Nicholas Beauchamp, Henry Brady, Richard Fowles, Aviel Rubin, and Jonathan Taylor, 2004: “Findings of an independent panel on allegations of statistical evidence for fraud during the 2004 Venezuelan Presidential recall referendum,” Observing the Venezuela Presidential Recall Referendum: Comprehensive Report, The Carter Center, Atlanta.
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Education
PhD, 2012, Political Science, New York University
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Contact
617.373.2796 n.beauchamp@northeastern.edu -
Address
931 Renaissance Park
360 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA 02115
