Janis Goldzycher

Janis Goldzycher is a PhD candidate in natural language processing at the University of Zurich supervised by Gerold Schneider and Martin Volk. In his PhD, he works on improving machine learning-based methods for the detection and analysis of hateful language, focusing on model robustness, evaluation, and low‑resource scenarios. His work extends to interdisciplinary collaborations to study religious hate and propaganda on social media. He is funded by the project “Argument Structures in the Automatic Detection of Intolerance and Extremism”, which is part of the interdisciplinary research focus “Digital Religion(s)” of the University of Zurich.