Niklas Werner Stöhr

Niklas Werner Stöhr

Niklas Werner Stöhr

Student / Programme Doctorate at D-INFK

ETH Zürich

Professur für Informatik

OAT W 14

Andreasstrasse 5

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

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Niklas Stoehr's interdisciplinary research practice aims at quantifying latent intensity concepts. Combining methods from Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science and Network Science, his interests are particularly centred around numbers in text, conflict intensity and sentiment analysis. 

Niklas Stoehr is pursuing a PhD at the Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zurich, advised by Ryan Cotterellcall_made and Robert Westcall_made at EPFL and Aaron Scheincall_made at the University of Chicago. He focuses on building tools for measuring socio-political latent concepts in text such as sentiment, stance or conflict intensity. During his PhD, he spent time at Googlecall_made in Mountain View and Bloombergcall_made in New York. After completing his Master's degree in Data Science at UCLcall_made, he interned at Microsoft Research Cambridgecall_made and worked full-time at the IBM AI Core Teamcall_made. During his Bachelor's degree in Information Management Systems at TU Berlincall_made, Niklas spent 6 months as a research assistant at the University of Oxfordcall_made, 12 months as a language exchange student at Tsinghua University in Beijingcall_made and 3 months as an intern at the German Federal Foreign Office in Shanghaicall_made, thanks to generous funding by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)call_made.

 

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