Clone of People
People
IQSS is comprised of a community of exceptional scholars and staff, who collaborate on and provide support for a wide range of social science research.
Leadership
Directors
Rachel Franklin
rachel_franklin@cga.harvard.eduExecutive Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis
Jason Nemirow
nemirow@fas.harvard.edu Director of the Program on Higher Education Research
Director of the Council for Academic Freedom at Harvard (CAFH)
Steering Committee
Bharat Anand
banand@hbs.eduHenry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean, HBX
Peter Bol
pkbol@fas.harvard.eduCharles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Francesca Dominici
fdominic@hsph.harvard.eduClarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science, TH Chan School of Public Health
Faculty Co-Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative
Cynthia Dwork
dwork@seas.harvard.eduGordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School and Department of Statistics
Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
Daniel Gilbert
gilbert@wjh.harvard.edu Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Alyssa A. Goodman
agoodman@cfa.harvard.eduRobert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy
Co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Isaac Kohane
isaac_kohane@harvard.eduChair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Browse People
Faculty
Emmanuel Akyeampong
akyeamp@fas.harvard.eduOppenheimer Faculty Director, Center for African Studies
Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
James Alt
jalt@iq.harvard.eduFrank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, Department of Government
Bharat Anand
banand@hbs.eduHenry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean, HBX
Stephen Ansolabehere
sda@gov.harvard.eduFrank G. Thompson Professor of Government, Department of Government
Christopher Avery
chris_avery@harvard.eduRoy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
Graduate Students
Asad Liaqat
PhD Candidate in Public Policy, GSAS
Adil Ahsan
PhD Student in Public Policy, GSAS
Alexander Klapheke
My research is in the semantics of natural language: how utterances come to have the meanings they do, and how meaning interacts with linguistic structure. Currently I am studying how the behavior of polarity items—words like ever which can only appear iLinguistics, GSAS
Aljoša Milenković
aljosamilenkovic@g.harvard.eduPhD Candidate in Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Alvin Tran
alvintran@mail.harvard.eduDept of Nutrition; Dept of Social and Behavioral SciencesHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Alyssa Huberts
PhD Candidate in Government, GSAS
Angela Y Chang
angela.chang@mail.harvard.eduGlobal Heath and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Ankana Saha
PhD Student in Linguistics, GSAS
Undergraduate Students
Annika Khandelwal
Research Assistant, Grid Project
Undergraduate in Sociology, Harvard College
Asmer Asrar Safi
asmersafi@college.harvard.eduConcentrator in Social Studies, Harvard College
Undergraduate Research Scholar
Asmer Safi
Undergraduate Affiliate, URS
Caroline Gao
IQSS Undergraduate Research Scholar
Emily Feng
emilyfeng@college.harvard.eduUndergraduate in Social Studies and Philosophy, Harvard College
Han Nguyen
IQSS Undergraduate Research Scholar
Iris Gong Cheng
Undergraduate Research Scholar
Jack Hayes
jackhayes@fas.harvard.eduGeospatial Data Scientist (part time), Center for Geographic Analysis
Undergraduate, College of William & Mary
Linh Vu
IQSS Undergraduate Research Scholar
Michael Zhao
michaelzhao@college.harvard.eduConcentrator in Statistics & Computer Science, Harvard College
Taeyoung Kim
taeyoungkim14@college.harvard.eduHarvard College, Leverett House
Department of Government, Secondary field in French Language & Literature
Tianhao Wu
twu@college.harvard.eduVisiting Undergraduate Student, Harvard College
BSc Economic History and Geography candidate, London School of Economics
Visiting Scholars
Hunter Rendleman
hunter.rendleman@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Alejandro Kantor
IQSS Fellow
Alessandro Vespignani
Sternberg Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University
Alice Sommer
Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich
Alina Herderich
alinaherderich@fas.harvard.eduVisiting Fellow, Digital Emotions Lab, D^3/LISH
PhD student, Graz University of Technology
Ana Trisovic
Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrew Chung
andrew@1955capital.comExecutive Fellow, Venture Translation & Innovation, Startup Foundry
Anthony Salvanto
Executive Director of Elections and Surveys, CBS News
Babak Fotouhi
JSMF Post-doctoral Fellow at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
Ben Shair
benshair1@gmail.comUndergraduate student, B.S. in Political Science at University of Rochester
Ben Shair
benshair1@gmail.comUndergraduate student, B.S. in Political Science at University of Rochester
Benjamin Lewis
blewis@cga.harvard.eduAffiliate of IQSS, Dataverse
Director, Open Inference Initiative
Associate, Harvard Hutchins Center
Benjamin Mako Hill
Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Assistant Professor at University of Washington
Bernd Resch
bresch@fas.harvard.eduVisiting Scholar, Center for Geographic Analysis at IQSS
Professor, of Geo-social AI, Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U)
Brian Guay
brianmguay@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science & Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruno S Sergi
bsergi@fas.harvard.eduInstructor, DCE
Chair and co-director, Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD)
Ce Gao
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
Peking University
Chengxi Yan
chengxiyan@fas.harvard.eduFellow, China Biographical Database (CBDB) at IQSS
PhD candidate, Peking University
Staff
Brendan Case
brendan_case@fas.harvard.eduAssociate Director for Research, Human Flourishing Program
Corey Dopp
IT Client Support Services Associate
Dwayne Liburd
dliburd@hmdc.harvard.eduLibrary Assistant, Data Acquisition and Archiving, Data Science
Jack Hayes
jackhayes@fas.harvard.eduGeospatial Data Scientist (part time), Center for Geographic Analysis
Undergraduate, College of William & Mary
Jacqueline Ng Lane
jng@hbs.eduAssistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science
Jason Nemirow
nemirow@fas.harvard.edu Director of the Program on Higher Education Research
Director of the Council for Academic Freedom at Harvard (CAFH)
Bonnie O'Brien
bobrien@iq.harvard.eduDirector of Human Resources
Bonnie O'Brien joined IQSS in 2012 and is currently the Director of Human Resources. She provides overall HR leadership and support in the areas of: recruitment and retention, employee relations, organizational and policy development, performance...
Brooke Moore
bmoore@iq.harvard.eduDirector of Sponsored Research Administration
Brooke joined the finance team at IQSS in 2014 and is currently the Director of Sponsored Research Administration. At IQSS, Brooke manages the sponsored research team and overall program. She is responsible for overseeing the financial management and...
Emma Loayza
egloayza@iq.harvard.eduOffice Manager
Emma joined IQSS in May of 2024. Prior to that, she worked as an Office Manager in both the Library Student Employment Program and the Digital Ventures Lab at Boston University Libraries. Her current work at IQSS focuses on physical space management, as...
Gabrielle Stone
gstone@iq.harvard.eduEvents Coordinator
Gabrielle is a professional event planner who has worked with Harvard University for 10 years. She gradutated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor's degree in English and has a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management...
Jorge Dasilva
jdasilva@iq.harvard.eduSenior Sponsored Research Administrator
Jorge joined the Sponsored Finance team at IQSS in July 2023 as a Sr. Sponsored Research Administrator. Jorge supports several principal investigators affiliated with IQSS. Jorge is a seasoned finance professional with over 25 years of experience in both...
Keri Lemasters
klemasters@iq.harvard.edu Senior Sponsored Research Administrator
Keri joined the sponsored finance team at IQSS in February of 2019 and has worked in sponsored administration for nine years. Keri supports several principal investigators affiliated with IQSS in pre-award and post-award services for federal and private...
Linda Christlieb
lchristlieb@iq.harvard.eduFinance Associate
Linda has been with Harvard University since 2012. Prior to joining IQSS in 2015 in the Finance and Administration Division, Linda worked as a Faculty Assistant and Executive Assistant for an economics professor for three years. Her current...
Lisa Galvin
lgalvin@iq.harvard.eduAcademic Affairs Coordinator
Lisa joined IQSS in November 2011. Prior to this, Lisa worked as a temporary Human Resources Coordinator in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) HR department. Lisa earned her Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification in June 2013 and...
Liz Salazar
lsalazar@iq.harvard.eduCommunications Coordinator
Liz Salazar has been at IQSS since 2010, meandering into her current role through management of the IQSS website and social media channels. As Communications Coordinator, she oversees the Institute's online presence, publicity, and external communications...
Maria Martins
mmartins@iq.harvard.eduExecutive Assistant
Maria Joined IQSS in March of 2016. Prior to IQSS, she worked as a Executive Assistant in the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) for eight years. Before Harvard, Maria worked for The Inn at Harvard as the Office Manager and at the Hilton Back Bay and...
Michael O'Brien
mobrien@iq.harvard.eduAcademic Affairs Coordinator
Michael joined the IQSS in May 2024 as an Academic Affairs & HR Coordinator. Before this appointment, he was the interim Office Manager within the IQSS' Business Operations Division. In his role, Michael is responsible for providing academic personnel and...
Ceilyn Boyd
cboyd@iq.harvard.eduInterim Director of Data Science and Product Research
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS), overseeing the software development process to ensure the team meets its project, partnership, and grant responsibilities...
Cheng Shi
cshi1@g.harvard.eduFront-End Developer, Dataverse
Cheng Shi graduated from the University of Southern California in 2023 with a master's degree in Data Science, following her bachelor's degree from Penn State University. She currently serves as a front-end developer for Dataverse at IQSS. In this role...
Don Sizemore, II
don.sizemore@gmail.comDeveloper, Dataverse Core Development Team
Systems Programmer, HW Odum Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Don Sizemore became involved with IQSS through the Dataverse project when he joined the Odum Institute in 2015. He is the primary author of the Dataverse-Ansible role, a consultant through the Global Dataverse Community Consortium, and attempts to support...
Dwayne Liburd
dliburd@hmdc.harvard.eduLibrary Assistant, Data Acquisition and Archiving, Data Science
Dwayne Liburd is the Data Technology Support Associate in Data Acquisition and Archiving. His responsibilities include assisting the Manager of Data Acquisition, providing assistance on using Dataverse services, and providing user support for Dataverse...
James D Myers
jim.myers@computer.orgDeveloper, Dataverse Core Development Team
Senior Developer and Architect for the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC)
Dr. Myers is an independent software architect, designer, and developer currently working in the Dataverse community through the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) and the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). He received his B.A. in Physics from...
Juan Pablo Tosca
juan_tosca@iq.harvard.eduSenior Software Developer, Dataverse Project
Juan Pablo Tosca is a talented software developer who joined IQSS in 2023 as a Senior Software Developer on the Dataverse project. Before joining IQSS, Juan worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Senior Software Developer specializing in...
Julian Gautier
juliangautier@g.harvard.eduProduct Research Specialist
Julian Gautier joined IQSS in September 2016 as a product research specialist for the Data Science and Product Research team, responsible for providing and extending Dataverse metadata support, and helping collect software requirements from product...
Len Wisniewski
lwisniewski@iq.harvard.eduSenior Director of Research Computing
Len Wisniewski is Senior Director of Research Computing at IQSS. Before IQSS, Len was Engineering Manager for the High Performance Computing group at Sun Microsystems, leading the teams developing the Sun HPC ClusterTools and Sun Studio Performance...
Leonid Andreev
leonid@hmdc.harvard.eduSenior Developer, Dataverse Project
Leonid Andreev is a Senior Developer for the Dataverse Project and has been part of the core team since its founding.
Marcello Carammia
marcello.carammia@unict.itAssociate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political and Social Science, University of Catania, Italy
Marcello Carammia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania (Italy). Between 2015 and 2019, he was a Senior Researcher at the European Union Asylum Agency, where he was...
Oliver Bertuch
o.bertuch@fz-juelich.deDeveloper, Dataverse Core Development Team
Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Co-PI, HERMES Project
Oliver is a Research Software Engineer working on solutions for management, publication and archiving of research data and research software. His mission is bringing together these two worlds, fostering Open Science and Reproducibility. Located at the...
Philip Durbin
philip_durbin@harvard.eduSoftware Developer, Dataverse Project
With a degree in Psychology from the University of Dayton, Phil is happy to be working at an institute dedicated to social science and proud to be part of the team that rewrote Dataverse to be more inclusive of all science. It's hard to stop him from...
Sonia Barbosa
sbarbosa@hmdc.harvard.eduAssociate Director of Dataverse Support, Data Curation, and the Murray Archive
Sonia Barbosa is the Associate Director of Dataverse Support, Data Curation, and the Murray Archive. Her responsibilities include developing and promoting the use and benefits of the Dataverse Software and outreach and acquisitions of data for the Harvard...
Stephen Kraffmiller
skraffmiller@hmdc.harvard.eduSoftware Developer, Dataverse Project
Stephen has been a developer on the Dataverse Project since 2010. He is involved in all aspects of the Dataverse project, from the front end UI development to the back end business logic. For the Dataverse project he was the lead developer for custom...
Steven Winship
steven_winship@iq.harvard.eduSoftware Developer and Systems Administrator, Product Development
Steven is working on the Dataverse Project.
Ceilyn Boyd
cboyd@iq.harvard.eduInterim Director of Data Science and Product Research
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS), overseeing the software development process to ensure the team meets its project, partnership, and grant responsibilities...
Cheng Shi
cshi1@g.harvard.eduFront-End Developer, Dataverse
Cheng Shi graduated from the University of Southern California in 2023 with a master's degree in Data Science, following her bachelor's degree from Penn State University. She currently serves as a front-end developer for Dataverse at IQSS. In this role...
Ellen Kraffmiller
ekraffmiller@hmdc.harvard.eduPrincipal Software Architect and Data Engineer
Ellen Kraffmiller is a software engineer who has been at IQSS for over ten years. Previously, she worked in software consulting, financial services and biotech industries. She has contributed to the Dataverse and Consilience projects. She has expertise in...
Juan Pablo Tosca
juan_tosca@iq.harvard.eduSenior Software Developer, Dataverse Project
Juan Pablo Tosca is a talented software developer who joined IQSS in 2023 as a Senior Software Developer on the Dataverse project. Before joining IQSS, Juan worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Senior Software Developer specializing in...
Len Wisniewski
lwisniewski@iq.harvard.eduSenior Director of Research Computing
Len Wisniewski is Senior Director of Research Computing at IQSS. Before IQSS, Len was Engineering Manager for the High Performance Computing group at Sun Microsystems, leading the teams developing the Sun HPC ClusterTools and Sun Studio Performance...
Leonid Andreev
leonid@hmdc.harvard.eduSenior Developer, Dataverse Project
Leonid Andreev is a Senior Developer for the Dataverse Project and has been part of the core team since its founding.
Mike Reekie
mreekie@iq.harvard.edu Senior Project Manager for Engineering and Technical Operations
I am responsible for the day-to-day project management responsibilities for the IT Operations team and other Engineering software development projects for the DevOPs team. Background: As the Director of Systems Engineering at Momentum Telecom my team...
Oliver Bertuch
o.bertuch@fz-juelich.deDeveloper, Dataverse Core Development Team
Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Co-PI, HERMES Project
Oliver is a Research Software Engineer working on solutions for management, publication and archiving of research data and research software. His mission is bringing together these two worlds, fostering Open Science and Reproducibility. Located at the...
Philip Durbin
philip_durbin@harvard.eduSoftware Developer, Dataverse Project
With a degree in Psychology from the University of Dayton, Phil is happy to be working at an institute dedicated to social science and proud to be part of the team that rewrote Dataverse to be more inclusive of all science. It's hard to stop him from...
Robert Treacy
rtreacy@hmdc.harvard.eduPrincipal Software Architect and Data Engineer, Dataverse Project
Bob Treacy is a Principal Software Architect and Data Engineer. He came to IQSS in 2006 at the beginning stages of the Dataverse Project and participated in the initial architecture, design and development of the system. He worked on a project for survey...
Stephen Kraffmiller
skraffmiller@hmdc.harvard.eduSoftware Developer, Dataverse Project
Stephen has been a developer on the Dataverse Project since 2010. He is involved in all aspects of the Dataverse project, from the front end UI development to the back end business logic. For the Dataverse project he was the lead developer for custom...
Steven Winship
steven_winship@iq.harvard.eduSoftware Developer and Systems Administrator, Product Development
Steven is working on the Dataverse Project.
William Horka
whorka@hmdc.harvard.eduSystems Administrator/Systems Programmer, Harvard-MIT Data Center
Anna Taylor
help@iq.harvard.eduTeam Lead, IT Client Support Services
Anna has been with IQSS/HMDC since 2007.
Bailey Moore
baileymoore@iq.harvard.eduIT Client Support Services Associate
Bailey Moore joined IQSS in 2024 as an IT Client Services Support Specialist. She went to school for Computer Networking at Lamar Institute of Technology. She grew up in Texas, moved to New York, and now is in Boston. Previously Bailey worked as a Network...
Cameron Harvey
help@iq.harvard.eduIT Client Support Services Associate
Cameron Harvey joined IQSS in 2018 as an IT Client Services Support Specialist. He provides members of the IQSS community with IT desktop support. Previosly Cameron worked in the role of IT Systems Administrator for an EMS service provider, as well as IT...
Corey Dopp
IT Client Support Services Associate
Emily Lawrence
elawrence@hmdc.harvard.eduLinux Systems Administrator for Research Computing, HMDC
Emily majored in Electronic Media, Arts and Communications at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and worked at BU for six years before joining IQSS in 2016.
Eric Wood
help@iq.harvard.eduIT Client Support Services
Eric works at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. He provides desktop support to clients at IQSS as well as support to users of IQSS's Resource Computing Environment. He has been instrumental in the shift to work from home for faculty...
Jinjie Liu
jinjie_liu@fas.harvard.eduData Science Specialist
Jinjie works as a Data Science Specialist on the Data Science Services team at IQSS. She holds a master's degree in Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She further...
Joshua Cetron
jcetron@iq.harvard.eduData Science Specialist
Josh is a data scientist, social scientist, and methodologist with a background in psychology, neuroscience, and multivariate statistics. As a Data Science Specialist at IQSS, Josh provides methods and analysis consulting services and collaborative...
Len Wisniewski
lwisniewski@iq.harvard.eduSenior Director of Research Computing
Len Wisniewski is Senior Director of Research Computing at IQSS. Before IQSS, Len was Engineering Manager for the High Performance Computing group at Sun Microsystems, leading the teams developing the Sun HPC ClusterTools and Sun Studio Performance...
Mike Reekie
mreekie@iq.harvard.edu Senior Project Manager for Engineering and Technical Operations
I am responsible for the day-to-day project management responsibilities for the IT Operations team and other Engineering software development projects for the DevOPs team. Background: As the Director of Systems Engineering at Momentum Telecom my team...
Noah Greifer
ngreifer@iq.harvard.eduData Science Specialist
Noah Greifer has been a member of the Data Science Services team at IQSS since August 2021. He earned his BS in Psychology from UC San Diego, worked in the Office of Institutional Research at Reed College, and earned his MA and PhD in Quantitative...
Rand Kiessig
rkiessig@iq.harvard.eduManager, IQSS Computer Lab Services
Rand Kiessig joined IQSS in May 2012 and has led IQSS Computer Lab Services since 2015. A California native, Rand has lived across the U.S. — from Washington State to North Carolina to Massachusetts — with stints in Mexico and Spain along the way. Before...
Roy Guyton
rguyton@hmdc.harvard.eduIT Client Support Services Associate
Roy is a graduate of Willamette University where he received a BA in Spanish Literature and International Studies in Salem, OR. He also received his Ed.M for Technology in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Additionally, Roy has...
Sarah Duncan
slduncan@fas.harvard.eduIT Operations Manager, IQSS/Harvard-MIT Data Center
Sarah Duncan is thrilled to be working at IQSS supporting Social Science research using Linux. Sarah has an undergraduate degree in Engineering and Applied Science, and a Masters in Divinity, both from Harvard, so this job satisfies both aspects of her...
Soner Taskaya
staskaya@iq.harvard.eduAssociate Director of IT Client Services
Soner Taskaya is Associate Director, IT Client Services at IQSS. Joined HMDC/IQSS as an IT Support Specialist in August of 2003. Before HMDC/IQSS, Junior Systems Administrator at a start-up software company for 4yrs, and also worked for the IT Support...
Steven Worthington
sworthington@iq.harvard.eduDirector of Data Science Services
Steve has been at IQSS since 2011. He holds a PhD in Biological Anthropology from New York University and is completing a masters degree in data science at Harvard. He is originally from northern England, but has lived in New York and Helsinki, Finland...
William Horka
whorka@hmdc.harvard.eduSystems Administrator/Systems Programmer, Harvard-MIT Data Center