Juan Sebastian Lozano is a Research Specialist at Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESoC) Lab. Previously he was the leader of the Data4Peace team at Innovations for Peace and Development, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in pure mathematics. His primary research interests are in the political economy of conflict and in research methods. While at ESoC, Juan worked with the International Crisis Group to support quantitative work on the economics of conflict, especially in understanding the role of the extractives industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, he works on a variety of issues related to climate change and conflict, especially deforestation in Latin America. Juan's research interests in statistical methods includes improving spatial econometric techniques, and better estimation techniques for inference involving machine learning. In machine learning, he is interested in applications of generative modeling, reinforcement learning, and quantum natural language processing to social sciences.