Kevin Michael Esterling
Member of the CalCompute Consortium.
- Institution: UC Riverside
- Title: Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Chair, Department of Political Science
- Role: Computational democracy UC; founding director, TeCD-Lab
Background
- He has been a professor at UC Riverside since 2003. He was Associate Dean, then Interim Dean, of the Graduate Division from 2012 to 2017 (Esterling ORCID record).
- He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago (1999) (Esterling ORCID record).
- His TeCD-Lab, founded in 2019, builds Prytaneum, an open source webinar platform for large public meetings (Esterling TECD lab homepage).
- His grants for online town halls come from the Democracy Fund, the Institute of Education Sciences and the California Air Resources Board (Esterling ORCID record).
- Recent work compares how large language models and search engines justify opinions (2026) (Esterling ORCID record).