Brandon M. Stewart

Associate Professor, Sociology, Princeton University

Joined

July 2019

Names

Brandon M. Stewart (Preferred)

Brandon Stewart

Emails

****@princeton.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Associate Professor

Sociology, Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2022 – Present

Assistant Professor

Sociology, Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2015 – 2022

PhD student

Government, Harvard University, Harvard University (fas.harvard.edu)

2008 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Gary King

2008 – 2015

Expertise

computational social science

Present

causal inference

Present

NLP

Present

Publications

GPT Deciphering Fedspeak: Quantifying Dissent Among Hawks and Doves
Denis Peskoff, Adam Visokay, Sander V Schulhoff, Benjamin Wachspress, alan blinder, Brandon M. Stewart
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
Using Imperfect Surrogates for Downstream Inference: Design-based Supervised Learning for Social Science Applications of Large Language Models
Naoki Egami, Musashi Hinck, Brandon M. Stewart, Hanying Wei
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond
Amir Feder, Katherine A. Keith, Emaad Manzoor, Reid Pryzant, Dhanya Sridhar, Zach Wood-Doughty, Jacob Eisenstein, Justin Grimmer, Roi Reichart, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Victor Veitch, Diyi Yang
- 2022 (modified: 17 Apr 2023)
- Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond
Amir Feder, Katherine A. Keith, Emaad Manzoor, Reid Pryzant, Dhanya Sridhar, Zach Wood-Doughty, Jacob Eisenstein, Justin Grimmer, Roi Reichart, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Victor Veitch, Diyi Yang
- 2021 (modified: 29 Oct 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Naïve regression requires weaker assumptions than factor models to adjust for multiple cause confounding
Justin Grimmer, Dean Knox, Brandon M. Stewart
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 08 May 2023
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
How algorithmic confounding in recommendation systems increases homogeneity and decreases utility
Allison J. B. Chaney, Brandon M. Stewart, Barbara E. Engelhardt
- 2018 (modified: 08 May 2023)
- RecSys 2018
- Readers: Everyone
The Civic Mission of MOOCs: Engagement across Political Differences in Online Forums
Michael Yeomans, Brandon M. Stewart, Kimia Mavon, Alexander Kindel, Dustin Tingley, Justin Reich
- Published: 01 Jan 2018, Last Modified: 08 May 2023
- Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ. 2018
- Readers: Everyone
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts
Naoki Egami, Christian J. Fong, Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart
- Published: 01 Jan 2018, Last Modified: 08 May 2023
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone
How Algorithmic Confounding in Recommendation Systems Increases Homogeneity and Decreases Utility
Allison J. B. Chaney, Brandon M. Stewart, Barbara E. Engelhardt
- 2017 (modified: 08 May 2023)
- CoRR 2017
- Readers: Everyone
Discourse: MOOC Discussion Forum Analysis at Scale
Alexander Kindel, Michael Yeomans, Justin Reich, Brandon M. Stewart, Dustin Tingley
- Published: 01 Jan 2017, Last Modified: 08 May 2023
- L@S 2017
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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