Robin Forsberg

Robin Forsberg is a visiting PhD researcher at the Social Computing Group. At his home university, University of Helsinki, he works on applied research in natural language processing (NLP) for social media. His research interest intersects computer science, statistical analysis, political science and policy analysis. He has 5+ years of industry experience from data & analysis, working for Facebook, Schibsted and Nordic Healthcare Group. Furthermore, he is a contributor at the Wilson Center and a former visiting researcher at the Johns Hopkins SAIS, Foreign Policy Institute, based in Washington, D.C. He is trained in information technology and holds a Master of Science in economics from Hanken School of Economics. Robin speaks fluent Finnish, Swedish and conversational German. You can visit his website here .

• Credit expansion and housing prices: a comparative study of Finland and Sweden (Master’s thesis)
• Value conflicts in natural language processing: a systematic literature review (coauthored, revise & resubmit)
• Using explainable AI to enhance the internal validity of large language models in ambiguous political text classification (coauthored, in review)
• Theorizing and Measuring General Non-Market Communication (coauthored, revise & resubmit)
• Deciding Who Sees What: Visibility Allocations Systems and Their Impact on Society (coauthored, in review)
• Auditing Google's AI Overviews and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby Care and Pregnancy (coauthored, revise & resubmit)

Robin is happy to supervise Master’s theses related to:

• applied natural language processing
• interpretable machine learning
• econometrics and time series analyses
• policy analyses
• systematic literature reviews