I am a postdoctoral researcher at the China Data Lab at UC, San Diego. I received my PhD in political science from New York University’s Politics Department. My dissertation demonstrates a new method to measure propaganda using word embeddings and applies it towards determining whether a specific rhetorical strategy is being employed by Chinese state media. In my broader research agenda, I am interested in quantifying how China and other autocracies utilize propaganda in traditional and social media. To that end, I apply text as data and machine learning tools towards the measurement of political science concepts, such as propaganda and power relations, in text data.If you would like to see papers and projects I am working on, check out my personal website: www.patrickjchester.com.