PORTFOLIO / 2025

Ranadheer
Malla

Social Data Scientist specializing in climate misinformation, LLMs, and computational social science.

Currently dodging rain in the UK
CURRENTLY
PhD Candidate @ University of Exeter
2022 — Present
FOCUS
GenAIHCIHuman in the loopClimate Communications

Selected Work

2017 — PRESENT
2025

Building Info Integrity Agentic Universe by curating trusted knowledge graphs and AI models. Created CARDS-i-B, an AI-powered tool for strategic communications.

AI ToolsStrategic CommunicationsStartup
2024

AI Consultant

ZoomInfo Technologies

Working on proprietary design tech projects utilizing AI capabilities.

AI/MLPythonDesign Tech
2024

AI Consultant

OCCRP

Orchestrated comprehensive pilot study assessing LLM capabilities in transforming unstructured documents into structured data formats.

LLMsDocument ProcessingData Extraction
2023

Research Associate

Centre for Climate Communication

Developing UK climate media monitoring tool and climate misinformation detection systems.

NLPMedia AnalysisClimate Data
2021

Research Associate

Mozilla Foundation

Developed annotation tools and active-learning frameworks for the Regrets Reporter project.

Machine LearningData AnnotationPython
2020

Research Associate

Q-step Center, University of Exeter

Managed data engineering, web scraping, and dashboard construction for major research projects.

Web ScrapingDashboardsData Engineering
2017

Data Engineer

Libtech India

Built ODK applications, developed dashboards, and managed the entire tech team for grassroots initiatives.

ODKPythonExcelTeam Management

Education

2013 — PRESENT
2022 - ongoing

Ph.D. in Advanced Quantitative Methods

University of Exeter, UK

Building AI tools to bridge artificial intelligence and human expertise in strategic communications, focusing on climate contrarianism and misinformation detection.

2021 - 2022

M.Res in Advanced Quantitative Methods

University of Exeter, UK

Developed annotation tools and topic modeling techniques to analyze heatwave imagery across 58 countries using Google image data.

First Class with Distinction
2019 - 2020

M.Sc in Policy Analytics

University of Exeter, UK

Statistical analysis of the MGNREGA scheme examining the relationship between village amenities and payment methods in Andhra Pradesh, India.

First Class with Distinction
2013 - 2017

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India

Specialized in mechanical design and engineering principles, with focus on industrial equipment and crane systems.

First Class with Distinction

Publications & Research

Nature CommunicationsPublication

Decoding Delay: Three Decades of Climate Change Obstruction in the United States Congress

Systematic analysis of Congressional speeches from 1994-2023 using large language models to classify climate contrarianism, revealing increasing critique of climate solutions and partisan differences in contrarian claims making.

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Mozilla FoundationResearch

Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's Ineffective User Controls

Large-scale experimental audit of YouTube's user control mechanisms using crowdsourced data from 22,722 participants, revealing that even the most definitive feedback controls prevented fewer than half of similar unwanted recommendations.

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Working PaperResearch

Classifying climate skepticism using dynamic few-shot learning

Advanced research on applying dynamic few-shot learning techniques to categorize climate skepticism patterns.

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Working PaperResearch

Classifying the presence of frames in tweets on climate change

Computational analysis of framing strategies used in climate change discourse on social media platforms.

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2022 - ongoingDissertation

PhD Thesis: Climate Misinformation Classification using LLMs

Leveraging state-of-the-art NLP developments to efficiently classify climate misinformation using Large Language Models.

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M.Res 2022Thesis

A computer-assisted approach to categorize heatwave imagery

Developed annotation tools and topic modeling for analyzing heatwave imagery across 58 countries using Google image data.

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Let's Connect

Always happy to chat about climate research, AI, data science, or potential collaborations.

BEYOND WORK

I love food, memes, naps, Netflix binges, and long drives. Most importantly, traveling—I've explored more than 12 countries in the last 3 years.

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