I am a recent graduate of Data Science for Public Policy (2023-2025) at the Hertie School, Berlin, Germany. Originally from Kathmandu, Nepal, I'm currently based in Berlin.
I work at the intersection of data science, social media, politics, and public policy. I'm passionate about combining computer science and engineering methods with social science research to explore political virality, disinformation, populism, and hate speech.
Non-Profit Work: (Jan 2026 - Current)
- Computational Social Science Researcher at Logiq Media (Jan 2026 (volunteer), Feb 2026 - present (contract)) — A Berlin-based non-profit helping governments and civil society address polarization, disinformation, and populism.
- Currently working on a project related to disinformation called SHIFT(Shaping Informed Frameworks for Trust) under European Narrative Observatory.
- Co-authored and implemented zero-shot stance classification to analyze comparative fact-checking echo-chambers on social platforms across 10+ platforms (Currently under review at Harvard Kennedy School, HKS Misinformation Review)
Research:
- Consulted and provided pei.centre with computational analysis of Nepalese Gen-Z mobilization on several social media platforms (Facebook, TikTok and Reddit) (methods: hashtag-coccurence, Time series analysis, Network Analysis) [Apr 2026 - May 2026]. Currently collaborating on qualitative digital ethnography piece.
- Volunteer Researcher with Prof. Dilrukshi Gamage on the South Asia Deepfake Detection project (Nov 2025 - Feb 2026)
- Weekly participant in Data Lunch Seminar with The Open Institute for Social Science — exploring Bayesian Statistics using Richard McElreath's Statistical Rethinking (Nov 2025 - Feb 2026)
- Presentation: Turkey Computational Social Sciences Conference (TCSS), Koç University, Istanbul | April 24-25, 2026
- Poster Presentations (2025): * SICSS (Saarbrücken)
- Conference: SSaLM: Social Science and Language Models Conference, Weizenbaum Institute | 2025
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SICSS-Saarbrücken | Saarbrücken, Germany
Participant | Sep 8-19, 2025
- Project: Computational study of 156K BlueSky posts as a Group Project.
- Methods: Co-authored zero-shot stance classification (NLP), toxicity analysis, and author-network analysis (46k nodes, 1 community detection).
- Key Insight: Examined stance polarization around high-profile news events.
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- Network Analysis Project | Jan 2026
- Core Research: Exploratory mapping of the "social DNA" of a digital Gen-Z movement in Nepal, focusing on Instagram's most influential activist networks.
(Submitted at https://www.icwsm.org/2026/submit.html, but not accepted)
Programming Languages:
- Python (Intermediate), Java (Basic), TypeScript (Basic), R (Basic)
Frameworks & Tools:
- Web: React, Django, FastAPI, Flask
- Data Science: Machine Learning/Deep Learning (PyTorch, Spark, Scikit-learnHuggingface), Computer Vision (CLIP), Natural Language Processing (Transformers, BERTopic), Data Visualization (PowerBI, Matplotlib, Plotly), SQL
- Data Governance: Microsoft Purview, OpenMetadata, Apache Airflow
- Data Engineering: AWS, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, ETL
- Automation/Web-scraping/Data Pipeline: Web scraping (Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Botasaurus, Playwright), Postman, ETL, Spark, Microsoft Synapse
- DevOps: Git, Docker, AWS, Atlassian Bamboo
Languages:
- English (Fluent), Nepali (Native), Hindi (Professional), German (A2), Tibetan (Basic)
⭐ Check out my repositories to see my work in computational social science and data science!
I'm actively looking for opportunities to collaborate on computational social science research, particularly in data science, social media analysis, and political disinformation.
- Email: nimathing1995@gmail.com
Feel free to reach me there if you'd like to discuss research collaboration or have any questions!