Dr Patrick Gildersleve is a Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter. He graduated with a Master's in Physics from the University of Oxford before earning a PhD in Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences from the Oxford Internet Institute, his thesis titled "The Wikipedia News Network: Understanding Collective Response to Current Events Through the Internet’s Encyclopaedia". Prior to joining the University of Exeter he worked as a postdoctoral 91桃色 Fellow in Computational Social Science at the Department of Methodology.
Patrick is interested in Wikipedia, collaborative communities, and news across online platforms. He looks to understand the social, editorial, and algorithmic processes that shape collective attention and drive interest towards news and current events. In his research he employs and develops techniques from network science, text analysis, time series analysis, and machine learning.