Regular biography
Robert West is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His research interests include machine learning and computational social science, as reflected in his teaching courses such as 'Advanced Topics in Machine Learning' and 'Topics in Computational Social Science'. He is affiliated with multiple departments, including IC-SIN, IC-SSC, and IC-SODH, and is involved in doctoral program committees. West supervises and co-supervises PhD theses at EPFL and teaches a range of courses related to machine learning and computational methods.
Scholar-generated biography
Robert West is a researcher whose work spans natural language processing, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational social science. His research focuses on understanding and mitigating disinformation, analyzing user behavior in online communities, and improving the effectiveness of language models. He has explored topics such as radicalization pathways on YouTube, linguistic change in online communities, and the impact of platform migrations on content moderation. His work also includes developing methods for knowledge base completion, grammar-constrained decoding, and synthetic training data generation. West's research emphasizes the intersection of computational methods and social dynamics, aiming to enhance transparency and accountability in digital spaces.