Professional Materials

Talks and Teaching

Short courses, invited lectures, conference activity, and teaching connected to my work on survey measurement, computational text analysis, causal inference, and political institutions.

Talks, Short Courses, and Presentations

A Generative AI Approach for Integrating Synthetic Respondents with Probability-Based Human Panels for Social Science Applications

with Leah Christian, Brandon Sepulvado, Soubhik Barari, Lilian Huang, Nan Wang, and colleagues. 81st Annual AAPOR Conference, 2026.

Conference presentation

Integrating Behavioral and Text-Based Indicators to Detect Low-Quality and AI-Generated Survey Responses

with Ting Yan, Lilian Huang, and Brandon Sepulvado. 81st Annual AAPOR Conference, 2026.

Conference presentation

Prompt the Model Instead of Prompting the People? Exploring the Accuracy of LLM-Generated Survey Estimates

with Trent D. Buskirk and Alex Benson. 81st Annual AAPOR Conference, 2026.

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A Method for Decomposing Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Insights from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

with Soubhik Barari, N. A. Raventos, and Angelo Cozzubo. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, 2025.

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Detecting AI-Generated Survey Responses: Tool Development and Bias Mitigation

with Lilian Huang and Brandon Sepulvado. 80th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2025.

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Evaluating the Human-Likeness of LLM-Generated Open-Ended Responses

with Brandon Sepulvado, Lilian Huang, and Soubhik Barari. First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research, 2025.

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From Social Media to Survey Data: Employing AI-Usage Detectors to Identify AI-Generated Responses in the HIRISE+ Survey

with Brandon Sepulvado, Lilian Huang, and Erin Fordyce. 80th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2025.

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Generative AI in Survey Research Design: Principles and Use Cases

with Soubhik Barari, Ting Yan, and Leah M. Christian. 80th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2025.

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How to Use NLP and Generative AI in Survey Research

with Soubhik Barari. WAPOR Webinar Short Course, 2025.

Short course

LLMs Don't Respond Like Humans: Exploring and Fine-Tuning Models

with Lilian Huang and Brandon Sepulvado. 80th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2025.

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Survey Length Prediction Using Machine Learning

with Ipek Bilgen and Mehmet Celepkolu. 80th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2025.

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Survey or Survai: Applications of AI within the Survey Research Process

80th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2025.

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Detecting and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias in Modeling Online COVID Vaccine Misinformation

with Caitlin C. Carter, Brandon Sepulvado, and colleagues. 79th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2024.

Conference presentation

How to Use NLP and Generative AI in Survey Research

with Soubhik Barari. AAPOR Mid-Year Short Course, 2024.

Short course

Optimizing Open-Ended Questions for Natural Language Processing and Enhancing Survey Research Quality with LLMs

with Ipek Bilgen, Leah Christian, Lilian Huang, and Brandon Sepulvado. 79th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2024.

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What Can LLMs Not (yet!) Do for Research

SurvAI-Day 2024, University of Maryland Social Data Science Center and the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute, 2024.

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Measuring the Undercounted: Ideology and Partisanship in Probability-Based Panel Recruitment Nonresponse Follow-up

with Ipek Bilgen and J. Michael Dennis. 78th Annual AAPOR Conference, 2023.

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Methodological Considerations in Assessing COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies during a Public Health Emergency

with Kiegan Rice, Quentin Brummet, and Sai Loganathan. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, 2023.

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Reimagining Automated Large-Scale Data Collection

with Brandon Sepulvado and Jennifer Hamilton. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Annual Conference, 2021.

Conference presentation

Legislation and Natural Language Processing

Duke University School of Law, 2019.

Lecture

Conference Activity

American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting

2023-2026

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

2023, 2025

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting

2014-2017, 2019, 2021-2022, 2024

Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting

2019, 2022, 2024

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

2014-2024

Society for Political Methodology Annual Summer Meeting

2016-2019

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Meeting

2016

Conference on Empirical Legal Scholarship

2016

Conference on Empirical Legal Scholarship: Special Session on Replication

2018-2019

Northwestern-Duke Causal Inference Workshop

2016-2019, 2022-2024

Congress and History

2021

Teaching

POL 690 Machine Learning

Instructor. Duke University Department of Political Science, Spring 2020.

POL 690S-5-02 Measurement

Instructor. Duke University Department of Political Science, Spring 2020.

POL 337 Law and Politics

Instructor. Duke University Department of Political Science, Fall 2020.

Introduction to R and Using R for Causal Inference

Instructor. Northwestern-Duke Causal Inference Workshop, 2016-2019.

Causal Inference and Machine Learning

Instructor. Northwestern-Duke Causal Inference Workshop, 2018-2019.

POL 899 Research Design and Causal Inference

Teaching Assistant. Duke University Department of Political Science, 2016-2017.

POL 201 Public Opinion

Teaching Assistant. Duke University Department of Political Science, 2015.

POL 709S Seminar in Behavior and Identities

Teaching Assistant. Duke University Department of Political Science, 2015.

POL 130 Introduction to Political Inquiry

Teaching Assistant. Duke University Department of Political Science, 2014.