Hi, I am Denis Peskoff

I am a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at Berkeley with Professor Diag Davenport. Previously I was at Northwestern, Princeton, and the University of Maryland. My research interest is leveraging domain experts to create meaningful and accurate datasets for computational social science.

Academia

Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley 2025 - Present

Postdoc, Northwestern University 2025

Computing Innovation Fellow, Princeton University 2022 - 2024

Ph.D., University of Maryland, Computer Science 2016 - 2021

Visiting DAAD Fellow, Ludwig Maximillian Universität 2020

M.S., University of Maryland, Computer Science 2016-2018

B.S.F.S., Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service 2014

Industry

Scale AI

Amazon AWS AI

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security

3M Healthcare (Natural Language Processing group)

PricewaterhouseCoopers Analytics Innovation Accelerator