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Étienne Ollion is a CNRS Research Director and Professor of Sociology at École Polytechnique, specializing in the intersection of politics, computational methods, and artificial intelligence. His work explores political professionalization, the role of digital data in social sciences, and the societal impacts of emerging technologies. He leads the Computational Social Sciences initiative at the Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP) and co-organizes the SICSS-Paris summer school.
Research interests include political careers, parliamentary dynamics, and AI-driven methodologies. His seminal book The Candidates: Amateurs and Professionals in Politics (2024) analyzes the 2017 French legislative renewal. He regularly publishes in top journals like Sociological Methods and Research, addressing topics such as LLM ethics, generative AI applications, and interdisciplinary research practices.
Ollion teaches at Columbia University and is an editorial board member of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. His work bridges ethnographic fieldwork with computational techniques, exemplified in projects like Active Tigger, an online tool for LLM annotation. He advocates for rigorous digital literacy in social sciences and critiques the use of proprietary AI systems in research.
Key engagements include speaking at the Chicago Sociology Colloquium and NetIA-Bologna conferences. His research also explores gender dynamics in French academia and the transformation of public space under far-right influence.
