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Who we are

The DSI involves academic researchers and instructors from departments across the School. It also involves affiliated staff through its Affiliate scheme, and external and visiting researchers through the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Visiting Appointments Scheme.

The DSI unites researchers across the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳'s range of social science disciplines through data science.

Academic Staff

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Professor Martin Anthony

Interim Director, Data Science Institute 

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Email: DSI.Director@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Johannes Ruf

Deputy Director, Data Science Institute 

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Dr Jonathan Cardoso-Silva

Assistant Professor (Education)

Research Interests: Complex Network Analysis; Machine Learning; Data Science Management

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Dr Ghita Berrada

Assistant Professor (Education)

Research Interests: Graph mining; Anomaly detection; Ethical ML/AI; Explainability; Rule mining/FCA; Machine Learning; Provenance; Databases; Decision Support Systems; Time series analysis

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Sara Luxmoore

Sara Luxmoore

Research Officer 

 


Jinshuai Ma

Jinshuai Ma

Research Officer in Data Science

Research Interests: Text analysis; Natural language processing; Human-centered software design; Physiological signal analysis

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Email: DSI.Computing@lse.ac.uk

 


Zoltán Szabó

Professor Zoltán Szabó

Turing University Network Liaison (Academic)

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Email: DSI.Turing.Academic@lse.ac.uk

Professional Services Staff

Jill Beattie

Jill Beattie

Institute Manager
Email: DSI.Manager@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 7759


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Emily Cruz

Communications and Events Manager (maternity cover)
Email: DSI.Comms@lse.ac.uk
Turing University Network Liaison (Administrative)
Email: DSI.Turing.Admin@lse.ac.uk


Ali Eggleton

Ali Eggleton

Institute Administrator
Email: DSI.Admin@lse.ac.uk


Ellie Finlay

Ellie Finlay

Events Officer
Email: DSI.Events@lse.ac.uk


Lou Flandrin

Lou Flandrin

Business Development Manager
Email: L.Flandrin@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 6116


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 Kevin Kittoe

Teaching and Assessment Administrator
Email: DSI.Ug@lse.ac.uk 


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Johanna Tate 

Communications and Events Manager (maternity leave)
Email: DSI.Comms@lse.ac.uk


Guest Teachers


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Dr Stuart Bramwell 
Email: S.Bramwell@lse.ac.uk


Tabtim Duenger

Tabtim Duenger 
Senior Data Scientist, The Economist 
Email: T.M.Duenger@lse.ac.uk


Riya Chhikara

Riya Chhikara 
Data Scientist, The Economist 
Email: R.Chhikara@lse.ac.uk


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Yassine Lahna
Y.Lahna@lse.ac.uk

 

 


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Barry Ledeatte
Email: B.Ledeatte@lse.ac.uk


Alexander Soldatkin

Alexander Soldatkin 
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford, Director of Studies, circle.institute
Email: A.Soldatkin1@lse.ac.uk


Andreas Stoffelbauer

Andreas Stöffelbauer
Data Scientist, Microsoft  

Email: A.Stoffelbauer1@lse.ac.uk



The ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Data Science Institute (DSI) provides an innovative teaching and learning environment, placing value on an interdisciplinary focus and high levels of student satisfaction.

Due to ever-increasing student interest in DSI courses, GTAs and Guest Teachers with a passion for teaching, providing excellent academic and pastoral support, and delivering academic activities to enhance the student experience are required.

Our posts are designed to offer outstanding teachers the chance to develop their skills and educational practice within supportive surroundings.

Would you like to join our teaching team? Please express an interest in joining us below. We will be in touch during the next selection window.

 You are eligible if you have a Masters or are a PhD student in data science or related fields (such as, programming, data wrangling and machine learning)

Please complete this form to express your interest

DSI GTAs and Guest Teachers

PhD Students

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Vincent Chung
PhD Candidate in Geography
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Data Science PhD Studentship
Email: v.j.chung@lse.ac.uk

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Wanting Wang

Wendy Wang
PhD Candidate in Social Research Methods
Email: w.wang75@lse.ac.uk

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Affiliates to the DSI

Faculty Affiliates


 Find out more about our Faculty Affiliates and their research

DSI Faculty Affiliates are members of staff from across ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ who are engaged with data science and AI in their research and teaching. Affiliates participate in the activities of the institute and have special access to its resources.

Find out more about the DSI Affiliate Scheme. Please note that only ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ staff are eligible to apply for DSI Affiliate status. If you have any questions please email DSI.Admin@lse.ac.uk.

Apply to become a DSI Affiliate

PhD Affiliates

DSI PhD Affilates are doctoral researchers, from all departments across ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, who have an interest in data science and artificial intelligence to join the DSI PhD Affiliate Network; whether they are interested in applications for your research, are studying the social scientific implications of AI and data or are working on fundamental methodologies.

Find out more about the scheme and apply to join

Visitors to the DSI

Visiting Appointments

The Visiting Appointments scheme allows staff from other institutions to benefit from the level of involvement similar to that enjoyed by DSI Affiliates.


Nicole Baerg

Dr Nicole Baerg 
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Essex
Visiting Senior Fellow

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John Burn-Murdoch
Chief Data Reporter, the Financial Times
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Gokhan Ciflikli

Dr Gökhan Çiflikli
Director of Data & AI, Superside
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Professor Nello Cristianini
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
University of Bath
Visiting Professor

 


James Hamp

Dr James Hamp
Director and Head of FX Data Strategy and Analytics, Citi
Visiting Fellow

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Dr Ajay Kumar 
Associate Professor of Business Analytics, Emlyon Business School
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Tom Pas

Dr Tom Paskhalis
Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Visiting Fellow

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Professor Mairéad Pratschke 
Professor and SALC Chair in Digital Education 
University of Manchester
Visiting Professor

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Professor Ehud Shapiro
Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
Visiting Professor

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Dr Miriam Sorace
Associate Professor of Business Analytics, University of Reading
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Dr Erica Thompson

Dr Erica Thompson
Associate Professor of Modelling for Decision Making, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL 
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Josh Townsley

Dr Joshua Townsley 
Senior UX Researcher, WhatsApp
Visiting Fellow

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Visiting Research Students

Anastasiia Menshikova

Anastasiia Menshikova (WT 2024)
PhD Candidate from the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden


Nader Hotait

Nader Hotait (AT 2023)
PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Mannheim, Germany

 


Paride Carrara

Paride Carrara (WT and ST 2023)
PhD Candidate in Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy


Riccardo Ricciardi

Riccardo Ricciardi (AT 2022)
PhD Candidate in Statistics and Data Science at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy


Clint Claessen

Clint Claessen (WT 2022)
PhD Candidate at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel

Fintan Oeri

Fintan Oeri (AT 2021)
PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel


Phillip Darius

Philipp Darius (AT 2021)
PhD Candidate in Governance at the Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School


 

Advisers to the DSI

DSI Management Committee

The DSI Management Committee exists to ensure the coordination of DSI activities with research, teaching, and outreach in data science across the various units of the school.

The Committee also provides input that shapes the goals of the DSI and its strategy for meeting those goals. 

Membership:


Visiting Professor, Department of Methodology

Professor Susana Mourato 
(ex-officio) Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research

Dr Alison Powell
Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications

Professor Olmo Silva 
Professor of Real Estate Economic and Finance and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Geography and Environment

Professor Bernhard Von Stengel 
Professor, Department of Mathematics

Professor Patrick Sturgis 
Professor of Quantative Social Science, Department of Methodology

Professor Zoltán Szabó 
Professor of Data Science, Department of Statistics

Data Science Education Forum

The Data Science Education Forum exists to ensure the quality and coordination of data science teaching and learning across the School. 

The responsibilities of the DSI Education Forum include facilitating effective communication with stakeholders across the School, collaborating on the provision and design of data science components offered by the Digital Skills Lab (DSL), and overseeing content development of DSI-led modules.

Membership:

Professor Peter Allen 
Professor, Department of Mathematics 


Head of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Digital Skills Lab

 
(ex-officio) Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education

Professor Irini Moustaki
Professor and Deputy Head of Department, Department of Statistics

Dr Antonio Mele
Assistant Professor of Economics (Education), Department of Economics

Dr Thomas Smith
Associate Professor in Environmental Geography, Department of Geography and Environment

Dr Milena Tsvetkova 
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology 

Dr Yang Yang
Senior Academic Developer, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Eden Centre for Education Enhancement