Ali Furkan Kalay

I’m excited to share a new working paper co-authored with Burak Dalaman and Nathan Kettlewell. We study how large language models (LLMs) changes academic writing, with a simple idea that unlocks a clean comparison between native and non-native English speaking authors. While studying the impact of LLMs, we also happen to use LLMs to infer authors’ likely English language background from names. This lets us split abstracts into native-authored and non-native-authored groups and track differences over time. [Read More]

I presented The Impact of Antidepressant Initiation on Labour Market Productivity at AHES 2025 in Canberra. This is another study using PLIDA, a joint work with Jonas Fooken and Henry Cutler. We received excellent feedback and are already exploring further results. [Read More]

I like using TikZ in my papers. My workflow is: draft the diagram with ChatGPT, fix bugs by hand, and paste the final LaTeX. The slow part is compiling just to see if a small change worked. I wanted a fast visual check. [Read More]

I presented a paper at the International Health Economics Association (IHEA) Conference 2025 in Indonesia. This was a joint work with Shan Jiang, Yuanyuan Gu, and Bonny Parkinson from MUCHE, and forms part of Shan’s PhD thesis. [Read More]

I had been meaning to update my Python package synloc for a while, aiming for two main improvements: parallelisation and fewer dependencies. [Read More]