Shreyas Meher
Postdoctoral Researcher Erasmus University Rotterdam
About
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Policy, Politics, and Society group at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I earned my Ph.D. in Public Policy & Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2025.
My research applies computational methods to substantive questions in digital governance, political conflict, and international political economy. It has appeared in Political Analysis, Research & Politics, and Behavioral Sciences. My foundational work on NLP for political science was developed through the NSF-funded ConfliBERT project with Patrick T. Brandt.
At Erasmus, I work on the TWIN4DEM project with Clara Egger and Asya Zhelyazkova, building machine learning frameworks for modeling democratic processes and assessing institutional resilience.
Digital Governance Computational Social Science NLP & LLMs Democratic Backsliding Democratic Backsliding Reinforcement Learning