Dr Allison Koh Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing Contact details Emaila.w.koh@bham.ac.uk View my research portal AddressUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Allison Koh is a Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government. Her research seeks to understand the geopolitics of emerging technologies and advance applications of generative AI in conflict research. Qualifications PhD in Political Science, Hertie School of Governance, 2024 MPP in Policy Analysis, Hertie School of Governance, 2020 BSc in Economics, Tulane University, 2016 Biography Allison Koh is a Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government. She recently earned her PhD at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. Koh’s research interests lie at the intersection of international relations, political communication, and computational social science, with a focus on the geopolitics of emerging technologies and applications of generative AI in conflict research. Her most recent work outlines the strategic landscape of digital transnational repression on social media and identifies how vulnerabilities in social media companies’ transparency and content moderation policies benefit the foreign policy interests of authoritarian regimes. Previously, Koh was as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia and worked in the Asia-Pacific Regional Office at Open Society Foundations. Koh holds a PhD in Political Science and an MPP in Policy Analysis from the Hertie School in Berlin and completed her BSc in Economics and Asian Studies at Tulane University.