Who I Am
My name is Riley Tucker and I am a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago with the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation & the Data Science Institute. My research uses computational methods such as machine learning, natural language processing, and web scraping to better understand cities and the spaces within them. I am particularly passionate about using these methods to test and develop interdisciplinary theories that explain why some urban places experience more crime than others. I earned my PhD in Criminology and Justice Policy at Northeastern University and my work has been published in venues such as Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, and Scientific Data.