Talks & Workshops
I give talks and workshops for universities, government associations, and industry teams. Recent hosts include University College Dublin, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, Michigan, Princeton, and Meta.
AI and the digital public square
How local governments and elected officials communicate online, what residents respond to, and how generative AI is changing public communication.
How policies spread
Evidence on policy diffusion across states and cities, and network methods for learning who learns from whom.
Network methods for social science
Network-effects regression, ERGMs, and causal inference with interdependent data. Available as talks or hands-on workshops.
AI agents in research
How AI agents are changing the workflow of empirical research, and how labs can use them while keeping results reproducible.
Talks & Workshops
Please send the event, audience, date, and format (in person or virtual).
Email a speaking invitationRecent invited talks
- Agentic Research for Knowledge Production: AI-in-the-Loop for Scientific Workflows
AI Special Interest Collective, Center for Supply Chain Research, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, November 11th, 2026 - Network Effects Panel Regression
Keynote Speaker at the opening of the Center for Network Science, University College Dublin, April 9th, 2026 - Ideology, Institutions, and the Online Spread of Harmful Content by U.S. State Legislators
Computational Social Science Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 3rd, 2026 - Ideology, Institutions, and the Online Spread of Harmful Content by U.S. State Legislators
Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University, November 4th, 2025 - Public Officials' Online Sharing of Low-factual Content: Institutional and Ideological Checks
Department of Political Science, Series on AI-Assisted Data Analysis for the Study of Politics and Government, The Ohio State University, April 14th, 2025 - Public Officials' Online Sharing of Low-factual Content: Institutional and Ideological Checks
School of Data Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, January 23rd, 2025 - Digitally Accountable Public Representation, Findings and takeaways for election season
School of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg, September 25th, 2024 - Network Effects Panel Regression
Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, September 13th, 2024 - Causal Evidence for Theories of Contagious Civil Unrest
Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, University of Rochester. May 18th, 2024 - Network Effects Panel Regression
Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, November 8th, 2023 - Network Effects Panel Regression
Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics Speaker Series, Pennsylvania State University Department of Statistics, November 3rd, 2023 - Workshop roundtable participant, “Lessons Learned from UNC,” American Politics Research Group 25th Anniversary Celebration, UNC Chapel Hill, September 22nd, 2023
- Network Event History Analysis with application to Public Policy Diffusion
Statistical Network Science with Applications conference, Pennsylvania State University. May 19th, 2023 - Predicting Dyadic and Geopolitical Interactions Between Spatially Moving Objects
Boğaziçi University (virtually), November 17th, 2021 - Attention to the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: Partisan differences among U.S. state legislators
Facebook Core Data Science, March 25th, 2021 - Network Event History Analysis for Modeling Public Policy Adoption with Latent Diffusion Networks
Quantitative Social Science Colloquium , Princeton University, April 12th, 2019 - Complex Dependence in Foreign Direct Investment: Network Theory and Empirical Analysis
Workshop on Modeling Spatial and Network Interdependence in International Relations, University of St. Gallen, December 8, 2018 - Complex Dependence in Foreign Direct Investment: Network Theory and Empirical Analysis
ISA Workshop on Modeling Spatial and Network Interdependence in International Relations, San Francisco, April 3, 2018 - A Network Model for Textual Communications Application to Government Email Corpora
Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle. April 19, 2017 - Rountable on Federalism, Intergovernmental Affairs, and Public Administration
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference. April 8, 2016
In the media
- Quoted in Giulia Carbonaro, “Map Reveals Where Americans Are Leaving Blue for Red States.” Newsweek, October 27, 2026
- Research with Xi Liu and Clio Andris on county-to-county migration networks featured in Scott Neuman, “The Red State, Blue State Divide Is Real. But It's Driven by More Than Just Politics.” NPR, June 8, 2026
- Quoted in Brianna Crane, “How Politics Influence Moving Choices in the West.” Axios (Salt Lake City and San Diego editions), October 29–30, 2024
- Quoted in Nathan Collins, “How the Pressure to Conform Could Make Governments More Transparent.” Pacific Standard, May 6, 2016
- Research with Raymond J. La Raja and Michael S. Kowal summarized in “Being Backed by Extended Party Networks Can Mean a Greater Chance of Electoral Success for a Congressional Challenger.” LSE United States Politics and Policy (USApp) Blog, June 3, 2014
- Research with Jeffrey J. Harden and Frederick J. Boehmke on policy diffusion networks featured in Seth Masket, “10 Fascinating Things About State Politics You Probably Didn't Know.” Pacific Standard, May 28, 2013. etaremune