Researching how digital technologies mediate economic and political life.
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher
Large Language Lab, UCLA
Pascal, U., Fang, C. & Bassens, D. (2026). Decentering tech oligarchy. Science as Culture.
Presner, T., Bonazzi, A., Pascal, U., Tang, A., Toubian, S. & Wasdahl, A. (2026). Response III: Uncritical Fabulation and Holocaust Vibe: How AI Constructs the Past. Digital Memory Dialogues, 2(4).
Pardo-Guerra, J. P. & Pascal, U. (2026). Historicizing Market Infrastructure. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Historical Sociology, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
An interactive visualization of how a large language model constructs Holocaust testimony, built from 1,000 GPT-4o completions of a single prompt — clustering their sentences and aggregating chosen and considered tokens into explorable decision trees.
A series of Google Colab notebooks that introduce students to transformer fundamentals — temperature, logits, bias, fine-tuning, and RAG — by unboxing GPT-2, one of the first open-weight LLMs.
A database and interactive map of nearly 300 stock exchanges worldwide, tracing the transformation of exchanges from Amsterdam in 1602 into today's global digital market infrastructure.