Conference and Working Papers

• Recovering Missing Policy Preferences in American Surveys Using AI
  Ali Amini (Accepted in MPSA and SPSA 2025)
  
  

• Recovering Lost Information: AI-Powered Imputation of Missing Data to Generate Synthetic Complete Datasets (SCD) for Social Science Research Ali Amini and Jeff Gill (Accepted in APSA, MPSA and SPSA 2025)
  
  

• Media Bias: Uncovering Paradoxical Findings in V-Dem’s Measurement of Democracy Using NLP
  Ali Amini(Accepted in MPSA and SPSA 2025)

  
  

• From Rigged to Riot: Insights from Machine Learning and List Experiment Analysis on Republican Collective Action in a Perceived Rigged 2024 Election Scenario
  Ali Amini(Accepted in MPSA 2025)
  
  

• Understanding Polling Discrepancies: State-Level Dynamics and the Evolutions of Accuracy in U.S. Presidential Elections (2004–2024)

  Ehsan Habibpour and Ali Amini(Accepted in MPSA 2025)
  
  

• Education (Dis)Connection: Anti-Intellectualism and Trump Supporters’ Views of Higher Education

  Quentin Cochran and Ali Amini (Accepted in MPSA 2025)
  
  

• The Need for Greater Adaptation: What Nationally Determined Contributions Tell Us about the Need for Resources and Prioritization?

  Todd Eisenstadt and Ali Amini (Accepted in SPSA 2025)
  
  

• A New Response Method for List Experiments

  Xinyuan Yang, Qingya Xu, Kaitlyn Davisio, Ali Amini, and Jeff Gill
  
  

• The Role of TSGA10 in Cancer Progression: Linking Mitochondrial Robustness and Hypoxia Adaptation

  Ali Amini et al.
  
  

• Redefining Asexual Survival: AI-Driven Approaches to Statistical and Empirical Challenges in Muller’s Ratchet

  Ali Amini and John Bracht

Published Papers

Evolution of a biological thermocouple by adaptation of cytochrome c oxidase in a subterrestrial metazoan, Halicephalobus mephisto

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06886-z

Under Review Paper

• Rethinking Elite Cues in Polarized Times: Realignment and Resistance in Public Opinion on Free Trade
  Ali Amini
  Journal of Political Behavior
  

• The Devil Worm in the Genetic Details: Breaking Muller's Ratchet
  Ali Amini and John Bracht
  Journal of Molecular Evolution
  

• A Germline Organoid Model of Taeniopygia guttata (Zebra Finch) Primordial Germ Cell (PGC) Nest Formation
  Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  

• Clarifying the Canopy-Cooling Relationship in Urban Areas Using Mobile Air Temperature and High-Resolution Tree Canopy Data
  Submitted to Nature Cities