Benjamin J. Radford
Benjamin J. Radford
Assistant Professor
Political Science and Public Administration
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Assistant Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program
I am an assistant professor of Political Science and Public Administration, a faculty member of the Public Policy Ph.D. Program, an affiliate member of the School of Data Science, and a member of the CyberDNA Center at UNC Charlotte. My research focuses on political methodology and applications of machine learning to political conflict, cybersecurity, and international relations. I am particularly interested in extracting structured information about political and cybersecurity-relevant events from unstructured text data.
Courses Taught
- GRAD 6101/8101: Linear Regression
- GRAD 6009/8009: Data Science for Social Scientific Inquiry
- POLS 2220: Political Science Research Methods
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC (2016)
- M.A., Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC (2015)
- B.A., Mathematics and International Studies, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC (2010)
Recent Publications:
- Radford, B. J. (2020). Multitask models for supervised protests detection in texts. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.02954.
- Gao, J., & Radford, B. J. (2021). Death by political party: The relationship between COVID‐19 deaths and political party affiliation in the United States. World Medical & Health Policy, 13(2), 224-249.
- Purba, M. D., Ghosh, A., Radford, B. J., & Chu, B. (2023, October). Software vulnerability detection using large language models. In 2023 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW) (pp. 112-119). IEEE.