We are delighted to welcome Brian\u00a0Pl\u00fcss to the ARG-tech team. Brian joins us as Postdoctoral\u00a0Research Associate to take part in the Augmented Deliberative Democracy\u00a0(ADD-up) project. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, between 2017 and\u00a02020, Brian will combine argumentation mining, analyses and\u00a0visualisations to augment complex public deliberations in real time,\u00a0working in collaboration with researchers in linguistics and political\u00a0communication from the University of Konstanz and the University of\u00a0Goettingen, Germany.<\/p>\n
Before joining ARG-tech, Brian was Research Associate at The Open\u00a0University\u2019s Knowledge Media Institute, working in the EPSRC-funded\u00a0Election Debate Visualisation project, in collaboration with researchers\u00a0in Political Communication and Design from the University of Leeds.\u00a0Brian has a PhD from The Open University\u2019s Computing and Communications\u00a0Department for the thesis \u201cA Computational Model of Non-Cooperation in\u00a0Natural Language Dialogue\u201d. In his doctoral research, he specialised in\u00a0analysing and modelling non-cooperation in political interviews. Before\u00a0this, he obtained a MSc in computer science at the National University\u00a0of Rosario, Argentina. He has carried out research on virtual human\u00a0systems at USC\u2019s Institute for Creative Technologies in Los Angeles,\u00a0California, and on software architectures and formal methods in\u00a0Portugal, Argentina and Finland. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as a\u00a0software engineer for ATX Software in Lisbon, Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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