Ali Safaya is MS candidate in Computer Science and Engineering in Koç University. He received his BS degree from the Department of Computer Engineering in Sakarya University in 2019. His research area is mainly focused on Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Information Extraction.

Aysel Öztürk is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Koç University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Galatasaray University. She completed her masters in the Cultural Studies Department at Istanbul Şehir University. During her time in Istanbul Şehir University as an MA student, she worked...

Moutasem Abdullatif got his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Sakarya University in 2018, graduating as the valedictorian of his class. Being granted a full scholarship from Al Ghurair Foundation – the Arab world’s largest education fund – he started his MSc in the Department...

Fuat Kına has been a PhD researcher at the Sociology Department of Koç University since 2018, working in three projects: Emerging Markets Welfare, Social ComQuant, and Politus. He has provided methodological support for the research papers and research design problems and performed various tasks related to computational social science and...

I joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2003 after completing a doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research interests include political contention, social inequality, and social change in contemporary China. I am an active member of the East Asian Studies Program at Hopkins...

Aline Villavicencio is a Reader in Computer Science affiliated to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and also affiliated to the University of Essex (UK). Her research interests include lexical semantics, multilinguality, and cognitively motivated NLP. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) in...

BA Koç University Sociology & Double Major in Economics- 18′ MA Koç University Comparative Studies in History and Society-present Research interest: Social policy, social movements, critical sociology, social theory, quantitative sociology

Gabriela joined the project as a post-doctoral fellow, specializing in the political economy of Latin America and quantitative research techniques. She is pursuing her PhD degree in Political Science from the University of Connecticut. She also holds two MA degrees in Political Science and Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences,...