Presentations and Outreach

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2024

  • Presented at Factset’s Data Solutions Town Hall on Generative AI

2023

  • Moderated panel at Factset Developer Days on GenAI System Design
  • Presented at Factset GenAI Friday’s on LLM-based solutions
  • Featured in Youtube video on Revolutions

2022

2021

American Political Science Association (Seattle, OR)
  • Religious Pluralism and Mass Violence: A Global Analysis, with Gunes Tezcur
International Studies Association Annual Meeting (Virtual)
  • Militarized Fisheries Conflicts Associated with Global Climate, with Cullen Hendrix, Sarah M. Glaser, and Paige Roberts
Centre College Guest Lecture (IST 210 - Research Design)
  • Overview of GIS in Empirical Social Science
UCF School of Politics, Security and International Affairs Colloquium
  • The Commons Synthesis Project: Applying machine learning to synthesize knowledge on community-based natural resource management, with Graham Epstein, Jacopo Baggio, and Jennifer Joel

2020

International Studies Association Annual Meeting (Honolulu, HA) - Cancelled due to Covid
  • Climate Past, Climate Present, and the Future of Fisheries Conflict, with Cullen Hendrix, Sarah M. Glaser, and Paige Roberts

  • Presidential Personalities and Operational Codes: Learning Effects and Midterm Congressional Election Results, with Mark Schafer and Gary Smith

2019

International Studies Association Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
  • Drivers of Fisheries Conflict in East Africa, with Sarah M. Glaser and Coleen Devlin

2018

Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA)
  • Reconsidering What We Know About Private Military Companies and Their Effect on Conflict, with Christopher M. Faulkner

  • Stray Bullets - Civilian Victimization and Contested Space, with Roland Sanchez

2017

International Studies Association-South Annual Conference (Orlando, FL)
  • The Effect of Mutinies on Coup Attempts in West and Central Africa

  • Evaluating Out-Of-Sample Accuracy for Models of Interstate Conflict Using Machine Learning, with Clayton Besaw and Gary Smith

International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting (Edinburgh, Scotland)
  • The Psychological Characteristics of Presidents and Society, and Their Effects on Protest Levels, with Mark Schafer and Gary Smith
Southwester Political Science Association Annual Conference (Austin, TX)
  • The Determinants of Contracting Private Military and Security Companies, with Christopher Faulkner
Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Orlando, FL)
  • Sign on the Dotted Line - Contracting Private Military and Security Companies in African Civil Wars, with Christopher Faulkner
UCF Political Science Department Colloquium
  • Food Insecurity and Coup Forecasting with Ensemble Methods

2014

Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA)
  • Race and Media Perceptions of Marion Barry, with Mitchell Brown and Ben Cole