People

Kenneth Benoit

Managing Director and Founder

I'm also a Professor in the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science. I'm a social scientist, software developer, and amateur photographer.

I am also an Assistant Professor at Waseda University (Tokyo). I design and write core functions of quanteda and oversee development of other packages for text analysis to make quantitative text analysis more accessible to people from different backgrounds.

Akitaka Matsuo

Solutions Architect

I am also a Postdoc Fellow in Institute for Analytics and Data Science at University of Essex. I am responsible for systems architecture, cloud infrastructure, general problem solving, and multiple language integration such as the spacyr package.

Gokhan Ciflikli

Application Developer

I am a Senior Data Scientist at Attest and I work on the GUI application development using Shiny. I also maintain a computational social science blog at my website.

Stefan Müller

Training Advisor

I manage the package documentation, work as the editor of the QI blog and maintain quanteda tutorials. As Training Advisor I organize workshops on quantitative text analysis. I am also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich.