Moscow, Russia H +7(916)188-80-15 Aleksandr DEMIN B [email protected] Í avdemin.com Curriculum Vitae

Education Expected Bachelor Degree in Political Science, National Research University “Higher School of July 2018 " , Moscow, Russia. Major in Political Science and minor in Data Mining Expected ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Mar 2018 Sciences, Bamberg, Germany. One-week course on Introduction to Bayesian Inference with R Aug 2017 ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques, Central European University, Bu- dapest, Hungary. One-week course on Causal Inference in Social Sciences with R May 2017 International Spring School "New Dimensions of the Political: Energy, Memory, and the Body", European University Institute, Tuscany, Italy. Workshops on alternative philosophical paradigms of the phenomenon of the political Mar 2017 ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, Bamberg, Germany. Courses on Automated Web Data Collection and Quantitative Text Analysis with R Feb 2015 Winter School in Biopolitics, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia. Taru University and HSE joint project on the political philosophy of power and biopolitics

Scientific Interests { Political economy of authoritarianism { Game theory and applications { Normative and positive theory of violence { Political communications { Deep learning and NLP { Statistical modeling

Publications Chmel Kirill, Alexander Demin, and Kirill Kazantcev. (2017). Dictators Behavior Un- der Conditions of Economic Sanctions Cumulative Effect. Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 50/PS/2017. Available at: ssrn.com/abstract=3057272

Working Papers Demin Alexander. Economic Inequality, Political Regimes, and Wars. Work in progress. Available at my web-page. 2017 – 4th Best Bachelor Research Paper Award Demin Alexander. Dictators’ Behavior Under Conditions of Uncertainty. Work in progress. Available at my web-page. 2016 – 1st Best Bachelor Research Paper Award

Conference Talks Exp Apr 2018 MPSA Annual Conference (Accepted), Chicago, USA. Exp Mar 2018 Public Choice Society Annual Conference (Accepted), Charleston, USA. Nov 2017 NPSA Annual Conference (Accepted), Philadelphia, USA. Mar 2017 Conference on Political Economy, CEVRO Institute, Prague, . Research Projects 2017 – Present State Repressions Variation in Modern Russian Regions, NRU HSE, Moscow. Conducting research on economic and media conditions for state coercion in Russia (with Interna- tional Center for the Study of Institutions and Development) 2017 – Present Political Consequences of Privatization in the 1990s Russia, NRU HSE, Moscow. Collecting data from primary sources on regional distribution of privatization results, formal and statistical modeling (under N. Hassanpour supervision) 2017 – Present Modernization and Mobilization in Eurasia, NRU HSE, Moscow. Retrieving data from the 1897 Russian Census (under N. Hassanpour supervision) 2017 – Present Political Economy of Authoritarianism, NRU HSE, Moscow. Data collection and literature reviews for collective papers (under A. Zakharov supervision) 2016 – 2017 “50 Shades of Authoritarianism": Strategies and Sustainability of Contemporary Autocracies, NRU HSE, Moscow. Research on autocrats’ actions under economic sanctions (under A. Melville supervision) 2015 – 2016 Strategies of Successful Dictatorships, NRU HSE, Moscow. Building indicators of successful autocrats, using machine learning (under A. Melville supervision)

Work Experience 2014 – Present Lecturer, Pedagogical Skills Center, Moscow, Russia. Giving lectures on political science for high school students, preparing for the National Olympiad in Social Sciences 2015 – Present Teaching Assistant, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow. TA for “Categories of Political Science" course 2016 – 2017 Conference Initiator and Coordinator, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow. International Conference for Students and Young Researchers on Social Science “Alliance of Social Sciences” 2015 – 2016 Workshop coordinator and moderator, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Workshop on political economy and advanced game theory for Seniors and Masters 2015 – 2016 Faculty and University Student Council, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Head of science and research committee

Awards and Scholarships 2017 4th Best Bachelor Research Paper in Political Science, NRU Higher School of Eco- nomics, Moscow, Russia. 2016 1st Best Bachelor Research Paper in Political Science, NRU Higher School of Eco- nomics, Moscow, Russia. 2015–2016 Special Stipend for High Studying Performance, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. 2014 Moscow City Administration Stipend for Talented Junior Students, Moscow, Russia. 2014 National Olympiad in Social Sciences Winner (5th place in Russia), Moscow, Russia. 2014 National Olympiad in History Winner (19th place in Russia), Moscow, Russia.

Computer Skills Languages a Advanced Python, R, L TEX Russian Native Speaker Intermediate Matlab, STATA English Fluent (IELTS 7.5, TOEFL iBT 109) Basic Java, JAGS, WinBUGS French Basic