Yunus Emre Tapan

Yunus Emre Tapan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University, specializing in Political Methodology and Comparative Politics. He completed a graduate certificate program in Computational Social Science. He graduated with an MSc in Middle East Studies from Middle East Technical University and a BA in Economics from Bogazici University in Turkey. Before joining Northeastern, he worked as a Lecturer at Kadir Has University and researcher at a non-partisan think tank in Ankara, Turkey. He has a strong background in online extremism and radicalization. He employs machine learning, computational text, and network analysis methods to explore digital trace data.