Dr Aditi Dutta is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, with expertise in Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing, and the intersection of politics, health, and climate change. She is part of Working Group 5 of the Lancet Countdown project, collaborating with organisations such as World Health Organization to monitor global public and political engagement with health and climate policy.
Aditi’s research focuses on how language models can be evaluated and applied through social science theory, with a particular interest in quantifying uncertainty in AI annotations — including for subjective and politically sensitive tasks. She is currently developing global and regional indicators that track political and public engagement with climate and health issues across countries, using advanced data science techniques including clustering, statistical modelling, econometrics, and NLP to surface patterns in how governments, citizens and other stakeholders respond to the climate crisis. Her work speaks directly to CAST’s mission of understanding how society perceives and responds to climate change. She completed her PhD in Politics at the University of Exeter and holds a MSc in Data Science from the University of Southampton, and has presented her work at leading venues including NeurIPS, ICA, PSA and IC2S2.