Hi, I am Denis Peskoff

I am a postdoc at Northwestern University working with Professor Rob Voigt. I completed a postdoc with Professor Brandon Stewart at Princeton University and my PhD in Natural Language Processing at the University of Maryland with Professor Jordan Boyd-Graber. My research interest is leveraging domain experts to create meaningful and accurate datasets for computational social science.

Education

Postdoc, Northwestern University 2025 - Present
Postdoc, 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 Experience

Amazon AWS AI
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
3M Healthcare (Natural Language Processing group)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Analytics Innovation Accelerator

Languages

Human: English, Russian, German, Spanish
01100011 01110011: Python, Java, Coq, C++, R
(decreasing order of fluency)