About
Blake Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and Scientific Computing and an MA student in Statistics at the University of Michigan. He studies how government actors in modern states manipulate information using misinformation, trolls, astroturfers, propaganda, censorship, mass-surveillance, and digital repression. His research utilizes natural language processing, computer vision, and statistical machine learning tools for the study of political content encoded in unstructured text, image, audio, and video data. He holds a BA from Stanford University in Political Science and worked as a software engineer for several years before coming to Michigan.
Affiliations:
- Department of Statistics (Dual Master's Program)
- Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (Doctoral Fellow)
- Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (PhD in Scientific Computing)
Fields of Study:
- Methodology
- Comparative Politics
