research outputs
Manuscripts, working papers, and presentations. I do not yet have peer-reviewed publications; the items below are research outputs — a submitted manuscript, working papers, a thesis, policy writing, and talks and posters.
Manuscripts & Writing
2026
- Fact-Checking in the Feed: The Gap Between Output Metrics and Public Reception2026Mixed-methods commentary, co-authored at logiq.media. Submitted to the HKS Misinformation Review (under review).
2025
- Beyond the Ballot: TikTok Virality and Political Engagement in Nepal’s 2022 Election2025MSc thesis (Hertie School, 2025). Submitted and completed; revised after committee feedback. Supervised by Prof. Simon Munzert. Multimodal machine-learning pipeline (CLIP, Whisper, XGBoost) for political-virality prediction in a low-resource, multilingual electoral context. Not yet published as a journal article.
2023
- When Digital Tools Work Against Democracy2023Lead author (policy recommendations); Digital Governance & Social Media Governance. Regulatory analysis of social-media risks in the Brazilian context.
Presentations & Posters
2026
- Beyond the ban: co-engagement network signals on Nepali Reddit in the run-up to the Sep 8 Gen Z protest2026Accepted poster; 25 June 2026.
- Beyond the Ballot: TikTok virality and political engagement in Nepal’s local election 2022 (accepted poster)2026Abstract accepted; poster session 8 October 2026.
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2025
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- Online Toxicity and Community Structure on Bluesky around a High-Profile Event2025Group project at SICSS-Saarbrücken. I led stance classification and author-network analysis. Zero-shot stance classification, Perspective API toxicity scoring, and community detection over a 46k-author network.