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arfib-199x300Badredine Arfi

Professor of Political Science
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor

Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988

Ph.D. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Theories of international politics and security,  ethnic conflicts.
  • Methodology and epistemology:
    • AI, deep machine learning, topological data analysis – TDA, category theory, fuzzy logic methodology, quantum-theoretic approaches to social theory, statistical methods
  • Python computer programming.
  • Religion and democratic theory, politics of Islam.
  • Deconstruction applied to social theory.

Department of Political Science
234 Anderson Hall
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117325
Gainesville, FL  32611-7325

email: barfi@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-273-2357
Fax: 352-392-8127

Office Hours:  T: 9:00am – 10:30am, R: 2:30pm-4:00pm

Spring 2025 Courses:

POS 4931 – AI in Politics

POS 6933 – Multilevel Models Methods