Biography

Valentina Semenova is a PhD candidate in mathematics at Oxford University, a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking as well as the Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, and a recent visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab and Santa Fe Institute. Prior to her PhD, Valentina worked at Palantir and Goldman Sachs.

As her primary research focus, Valentina studies how granular data can help us understand the world we live in - from the influence that individual investors have on asset prices, to the ties between polarization and macroeconomic variables. Her work has received widespread attention in machine learning and finance, including publications in both research communities and several research awards. Her work has been covered more broadly in the LSE Business Review, Financial Times and other venues.

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Recent Publications

Oct 2021
Paper
DEBAGREEMENT: A comment-reply dataset for (dis)agreement detection in online debates
John Pougué-Biyong ,  Valentina Semenova ,  Alexandre Matton ,  Rachel Han ,  Aerin Kim ,  Renaud Lambiotte ,  J. Doyne Farmer
May 2021
Blog
Reddit’s self-organised bull runs
Valentina Semenova ,  Julian Winkler
May 2021
INET Working Paper

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