Ali Amini is an adjunct faculty and Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the School of Public Affairs and an M.S. candidate in Data Science in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at American University in Washington, D.C. His primary fields are political psychology and methodology. As a political scientist with a background in mathematics, he applies cutting-edge AI and computational methods, from classical machine learning to frontier AI, to address questions in political psychology and related interdisciplinary research.