My newest policy article (12/2024)
Contact
Email: robin.forsberg@helsinki.fi
University of Zurich
Department of Computer Science
Social Computing Group
Andreastrasse 15
CH-8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Field of work
natural language processing
econometrics and causal inference
computational social science
network science in social media
software product development
risk management
I combine expertise in economics, computer science, and data science to analyze markets, technology, and social media through data. I am a former Facebook Global Operations specialist and currently work as a technology consultant at Buildbite. Additionally, I am a computational and mixed methods Ph.D. researcher at University of Helsinki, and visiting researcher at University of Zurich's Social Computing Group, working at the intersection of machine learning, computational social science and social media research. I am professionally trained in computer science and I hold a Master of Science in economics. My professional skills, experience and interests include big data analysis, data engineering and machine learning applications, software product management, operations and risk management in multiple industries and academia.
Over the past six years, I have worked in the technology industry across five countries - Finland, Denmark, Ireland, United States and Switzerland. I speak Finnish, Swedish, English and German, and some French and Russian. Scroll down for references and click here for industry work experience.
Ph.D. in social data science, with expertise in natural language processing, computer science and statistics applied to studying algorithmic influence and complex user behaviour from large-scale text data on social media platforms, University of Helsinki, Finland (2022-2026).
Bachelor and Master of Science in economics, with expertise in econometrics and causal inference of time series analysis of credit expansion and housing prices in Nordic real estate markets, Hanken School of Economics, Finland (graduated 2019). After my graduation, I worked in Washington, D.C. in the transatlantic security field as a visiting scholar at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Foreign Policy Institute and as a contributor for the Wilson Center. See my work here and here.
Working as Global Operations specialist at Facebook, Inc. in Ireland (2020-2021). Responsible for the Finnish market, in my role I generated and analysed policy insights for the EMEA region, directly supporting decision-making for senior leadership, resulting in improved resource allocation and recognition from management. Additionally, I co-led an operation to remove far-right political networks in the Nordic market.
As a participant of Manfred Wörner Seminar of 2022 of the Bundeswehr and German Marshall Fund of the United States, I had the opportunity to discuss current defense and security policy challenges with North American and European colleagues and gain exciting insights into the current work of the most important institutions of our security architecture such as NATO and the European Commission.
Presenting my research 'Using explainable AI to enhance the internal validity of large language models in ambiguous political text classification' at the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science in Norrköping, Sweden, in July 2025. In picture with colleague from University of Zurich.