Nicholas Adams-Cohen

Profile

Hello! I am currently a Staff Data Scientist at Adobe. In my role, I use machine learning to personalize experiences and causal inference to measure the impact of programs and features for Adobe's suite of B2B software.

Before Adobe, I was an AI Research Scientist at Accenture and a Data Scientist at Stanford's Immigration Policy Lab. I also contributed to the Caltech/MIT Voter Technology Project.

I earned a Ph.D. in Social Science from Caltech in 2019, specializing in novel quantitative methods for political science.

My research delves into voter behavior, public opinion, and their intersection with politicians and media. I use social media data, NLP, and econometrics to explore reactions to events like LGBT+ rights and the #metoo movement.

At the Immigration Policy Lab, I helped devise machine learning solutions to optimize refugee placement, enhancing economic outcomes.

I co-authored the book “Securing Elections” published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Research

Published Work

• The Effect of Misinformation Intervention: Evidence from Trump's Tweets and the 2020 Election. MISDOOM, 2023.
  with Zhuofang Li, Jian Cao, and R. Michael Alvarez
• Dynamic Social Media Monitoring for Fast-Evolving Online Discussions. SIGKDD, 2021.
  with Maya Srikanth, Anqi Liu, Jian Cao, R. Michael Alvarez, and Anima Anandkumar
• Reliable and Efficient Long-Term Social Media Monitoring. Journal of Computer and Communications, 2021.
  with Jian Cao and R. Michael Alvarez
• Policy Change and Public Opinion: Measuring Shifting Political Sentiment with Social Media Data. American Research Politics, 2020.
  
• Securing Elections: How Data-Driven Election Monitoring Can Improve Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  with R. Michael Alvarez, Seo-young Silvia Kim, and Yimeng Li.
• Finding Social Media Trolls: Dynamic Keyword Selection Methods for Rapidly-Evolving Online Debates. NeurIPS, 2019.
  with Anqi Liu, Maya Srikanth, R. Michael Alvarez, and Anima Anandkumar

Select Working Papers

• Leveraging the Power of Place: A Data-Driven Decision Helper to Improve the Location Decisions of Economic Immigrants.
  with Jeremy Ferwerda, Kirk Bansak, Jennifer Fei, Duncan Lawrence, Jeremy M. Weinstein, and Jens Hainmueller

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