Kenneth Benoit is Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Computational Social Science, Singapore Management University. He has previously held positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was Director of the Data Science Institute and before that, Head of the the Department of Methodology; Professor (Part-time) in the School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University; Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin; and at the Central European University (Budapest).
He received his Ph.D. (1998) from Harvard University, Department of Government with a specialization in applied statistical methods.
His current research used large language models and advanced machine learning methods for analyzing large amounts of textual data, mainly political texts and social media. Current interest span the analysis of big data, including social media, and methods of text mining. His substantive research in political science focuses on comparative party competition, the European Parliament, electoral systems, and the effects of campaign spending. His other methodological interests include general statistical methods for the social sciences, especially those relating to measurement. Recent data large-scale measurement projects in which he has been involved include estimating policy positions of political parties through crowd-sourced data, expert surveys, manifesto coding, and text analysis.
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Contact details:
School of Social Sciences
Singapore Management University
Singapore 179873
kbenoit@smu.edu.sg