Michael Collyer is an OTF Senior Fellow in Information Controls and a Doctoral Candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. He holds a Bachelors in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics from the University of Amsterdam and a Masters in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford.
Information Controls, Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
This project uses machine learning techniques to model technical trends in internet shutdown behaviours, and positions these technical developments within broader censorship activities, and the associated deterioration of civil and political rights.
13 March 2024
Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and the University of Bremen share their insights on how digital technologies can be used to wield authoritarian power in the context of the Russian election.
9 November 2023
Eight OII DPhil students have received Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) funding to enable them to begin a 12-month research project during the course of their studies.
21 September 2023
Jack O’Callaghan, an undergraduate Economics student at the University of Kent, joined the Global Information and Technology Controls Hub at the Oxford Internet Institute as part of the University of Oxford UNIQ+ internship programme.