Robin Forsberg

Robin Forsberg is a visiting PhD research at the Social Computing Group. At his home university, University of Helsinki, he works on applied research in natural language processing (NLP) in 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.

• 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 (forthcoming)
• Internal validity of explainable AI: benchmarking performance of classification tasks of context-aware text data (forthcoming)
• Political influencing by corporates in social media: an empirical analysis (forthcoming)

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