Blake Miller

Blake Miller is an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science in the Methodology Department at the London School of Economics. He received his PhD in Political Science and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan in 2018 where he was also a graduate research affiliate in the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Before coming to LSE, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dartmouth College Program in Quantitative Social Science.

Blake's current methodological research agenda develops methods that provide researchers with the necessary tools to annotate large, unbalanced text corpora using active learning. He also is developing tools to increase the external validity of media effects experiments using realistic, interactive survey vignettes.

His substantive work explores how authoritarian regimes and illiberal political actors can manipulate social media to mobilize violence and influence political opinion and behaviour. Much of his work focuses on the case of China, exploring how the Chinese Communist Party controls information to achieve its political goals.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Michigan (2014 — 2019)
• B.A. Stanford University (2007 — 2011)
• Peking University (2009 — 2010)
• Poway High School (2003 — 2007)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2019)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dartmouth College (2018)
• PHD Student University of Michigan (2014)
• Cofounder, Vice President Tutor Matching Service (2013 — 2013)
• Software Engineer Smoopa (2012 — 2013)
• Systems Analyst McMaster-Carr (2011 — 2012)
• Resident Assistant Stanford Residential Education (2010 — 2011)
• Stanford in Government National Fellow International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (2010 — 2010)
• Research Assistant at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law Stanford University (2009 — 2010)

Skills

• HTML
• Politics
• Advising People

Other

Printmaking, SQL, User Interface Design, Painting, Comparative Politics, Research, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Political Science, Chinese, International Relations, Python