Jean-Philippe Cointet works at the Sciences Po médialab, where he designs innovative computational sociology methods. For the Obama Presidency Oral History, Cointet was instrumental in developing and implementing natural language processing techniques that make the interviews on this site navigable and accessible.
Cointet is specialized in text analysis and works with various kinds of corpora and sources, questioning their socio-political dynamics. His research areas are diverse, ranging from social media analysis (Facebook public posts and comments) tothe science of science (data turn in oncology) or political processes mapping (political discourses, international negotiations), and frame analysis (press coverage of migration processes).
Cointet also participates in developing the CorText platform. He holds a PhD in Complex Systems and was trained as an engineer at Ecole Polytechnique. He is also affiliated with Incite at Columbia University. He defended his habilitation in Social Sciences at ENS in 2017.
