Benjamin Radford is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on methodological innovations in the study of political violence, conflict, and forecasting. Dr. Radford has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, AISTATS, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, among others. He is the Co-PI of an NSF grant to measure subnational nonstate actor governance.
Courses TaughtÂ
- Bayesian Statistics
- Political Research and Analysis
- Linear Regression (UNC Charlotte)
- Time Series Analysis (UNC Charlotte)
- Data Science for Social Scientists (UNC Charlotte)
- Cyberspace and Politics (UNC Charlotte)
- Political Science Methods (UNC Charlotte)
Education & Training
- PhD, Duke University, 2016
Representative Publications
Howard Liu, Benjamin J. Radford. Forthcoming. "Covert Assignments: Undercover Infiltration and the Repression of Protests." International Studies Quarterly.
Benjamin J. Radford, Yaoyao Dai, Niklas Stoehr, Aaron Schein, Mya Fernandez, Hanif Sajid. 2023. "Estimating Conflict Losses and Reporting Biases." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(34).
Niklas Stoehr, Benjamin J. Radford, Ryan Cotterell, Aaron Schein. 2023. "The Ordered Matrix Dirichlet for State-Space Models." Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2023, 206.
Benjamin J. Radford. 2022. "High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory." International Interactions, 48(4), 739–758.
Research Interests
- Machine learning
- Bayesian statistics
- Forecasting
- Political violence
- Cybersecurity
