Bartosz Pielinski, PhD – Doctor of Political Science (2008), Assistant Professor, 2016-2019 Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Policy. Collaborator in MI²DataLab and founding member of the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI). He works on applying natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to research in political science and international relations. He also conducts research on technology and public policy. He has extensive experience working in international and interdisciplinary research teams funded by the National Science Center, the Horizon Europe program, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is currently involved in several research projects on topics ranging from the functioning of UNESCO to tracking developments in artificial intelligence research. Wherever he goes, he makes sure that social scientists are not afraid to use the latest computer science technologies, while computer scientists use their tools in more illuminating ways to study complex social and political processes.
Research interests
Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, public policy, inter-disciplinary and inter-domain brokerage
Unit
Department of Methodology of Political Science
Recent publications:
Wróblewska, A., Pieliński, B., Seweryn, K., Sysko-Romańczuk, S., Saputa, K., Wichrowska, A., Schreiber, H (2023). Automating the Analysis of Institutional Design in International Agreements. In: Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2023. ICCS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36024-4_5 [arxiv]
Schreiber, H., Pieliński, B. (2023). Inviting all humanity to an elite club? Understanding tensions in UNESCO’s global heritage regimes through the lens of a typology of goods. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(1), 113-129. doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2141727
Pieliński, B., Mering, T., & Szarfenberg, R. (2021). Keeping a distance but heading in the same direction: formal rules on unemployment benefit sanctions and social assistance benefit sanctions in Poland, 1989–2014. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 42(11-12), 1145-1164. doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-09-2021-0227