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.
Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University -- one of 22 with the title of University Professor, Harvard's most distinguished faculty position... Read more about Gary King
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Product Management
Andrew Juraschek is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Product Management at IQSS. In this role, under the direction of the Faculty Director, Andrew partners with the academic, technical, and administrative leadership of the Institute to develop and maintain the various functions and emerging projects across IQSS.
Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University -- one of 22 with the title of University Professor, Harvard's most distinguished faculty position... Read more about Gary King
Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, HBX
Bharat N. Anand is the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and the Senior Associate Dean and faculty chair of HBX,... Read more about Bharat Anand
Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is the author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China, Neo-Confucianism in History... Read more about Peter Bol
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science, TH Chan School of Public Health Faculty Co-Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative
Dr. Dominici received her B.S. in Statistics from University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy and her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Padua in Italy... Read more about Francesca Dominici
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School and Department of Statistics Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
Cynthia Dwork uses theoretical computer science to place societal problems on a firm mathematical foundation. She was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in 2007 in recognition of some of her earliest work establishing the pillars on which every fault tolerant system has been built for a generation (Dwork, Lynch, and Stockmeyer, 1984)... Read more about Cynthia Dwork
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Daniel Gilbert is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology... Read more about Daniel Gilbert
Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy Co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Alyssa Goodman is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, Co-Director for Science, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Goodman's research and teaching interests span astronomy, data visualization, and online systems for research and education... Read more about Alyssa A. Goodman
Melissa Dell is a professor in the Economics Department and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on long-run economic development, primarily in Latin America and Asia. She has examined the impacts of weather... Read more about Melissa Dell
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science, TH Chan School of Public Health Faculty Co-Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative
Dr. Dominici received her B.S. in Statistics from University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy and her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Padua in Italy... Read more about Francesca Dominici
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School and Department of Statistics Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
Cynthia Dwork uses theoretical computer science to place societal problems on a firm mathematical foundation. She was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in 2007 in recognition of some of her earliest work establishing the pillars on which every fault tolerant system has been built for a generation (Dwork, Lynch, and Stockmeyer, 1984)... Read more about Cynthia Dwork
Ryan D. Enos is a Professor of Government and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science specializing in American Politics, Political... Read more about Ryan Enos
Lecturer, Division of Continuing Education Affiliate Faculty, Center for International Development, HKS Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Dr. Mark Esposito is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating to The Fourth Industrial Revolution. He is a global...
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
My current area of interest lies at the intersection of epidemiology, bioinformatics, computational and evolutionary biology as applied to microbial genome science and more specifically to understanding the biology of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis... Read more about Maha R. Farhat
Jeffry Frieden is Stanfield Professor of International Peace. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations... Read more about Jeff Frieden
Wilbur A Cowett Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies
A professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University since 2006, Gay is a leading scholar of political behavior,...
Sidley Austin Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Professor Jacob E. Gersen is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Affiliate Professor in the Department of Government, and the Founder and Director of the Food Law Lab at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. The Food Law Lab supports academic research on the legal treatment of food in society. He is also the co-editor of Food Law & Policy... Read more about Jacob Gersen
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Daniel Gilbert is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology... Read more about Daniel Gilbert
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and EleaNor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992.... Read more about Edward Glaeser
Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy Co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Alyssa Goodman is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, Co-Director for Science, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Goodman's research and teaching interests span astronomy, data visualization, and online systems for research and education... Read more about Alyssa A. Goodman
Associate Director, Program on Survey Research Preceptor in Survey Research, Department of Government
Chase Harrison is Associate Director of the Harvard Program on Survey Research and Preceptor in Survey Methods in the Department of Government. Chase has been teaching survey methods at Harvard since 2006... Read more about Chase H. Harrison
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, TH Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Hejazi's current research interests combine causal inference and machine learning, driven by the aim of developing tailored, assumption-lean statistical procedures for efficient and robust inference about scientifically informative parameters. He is motivated by methodological issues arising in robust non- and semi-parametric inference... Read more about Nima Hejazi
Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Department of Economics
Elhanan Helpman is the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research...
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government
Michael J. Hiscox is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his B. Econ. (First Class HoNours) from the... Read more about Michael Hiscox
Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education
Andrew Ho is Charles William Eliot Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a psychometrician interested in the properties and consequences of test-based educational accountability metrics. His research has addressed measures of proficiency, growth, value added, achievement gains... Read more about Andrew Ho
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor
Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard... Read more about Jennifer Hochschild
Alisha Holland studies the comparative political economy of development with a focus on urban politics, social policy, and Latin America. Before joining the Harvard faculty, she was an Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton... Read more about Alisha Holland
Data Science Lecturer and Director of Master's Degree Program in Information Technology, Harvard Extension School
Dr. Bruce Huang is currently the director of master's degree program in information technology, overseeing five Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies degree programs, including computer science, cybersecurity, data science, digital media design, and systems engineering... Read more about Bruce Huang
Reshmaan Hussam is an assistant professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, teaching the Business,... Read more about Reshmaan N Hussam
Kosuke Imai is Professor of Government and of Statistics at Harvard University. Imai's research area is political methodology and more generally applied...
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Department of Government
Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy in the Government Department at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. He is the author or co-author of Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity... Read more about Torben Iversen
Professor in the School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University
Zhichao is a professor in the School of Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University. His main interests are causal inference methodologies and contaminated data...
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Director, Program on Gender, Rights and Resilience at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Dr. Jocelyn Kelly is the Director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Gender, Rights and Resilience (GR2) program, where she implements projects to examine issues relating to gender, peace, and security in conflict-affected and climate-fragile environments. Her work focuses on understanding and preventing gender-based violence and human trafficking in complex crises, with an emphasis... Read more about Jocelyn Kelly
Joshua D. Kertzer is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research specializes in the intersection of international security, political psychology, foreign policy, and public opinion. He is the author of Resolve in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016), along with articles appearing in a variety of academic journals, including... Read more about Joshua D. Kertzer
Hongmin is a student at Harvard Divinity School. Before coming to IQSS, he was a student librarian at the HDS library. His former work combined with...
Adil is a PhD student in Public Policy (Economics Track) and is interested in Development Economics and Political Economy. Much of his work focuses on...
PhD Candidate in Political Economy and Government, HKS
Ahmet is a PhD student in Political Economy and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests are political economy, migration, social...
Layane is a PhD candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School specializing in development economics. She uses natural and field experiments to study digitization's impact on people and businesses in developing countries... Read more about Layane Alhorr
PhD Candidate in Education Policy and Program Evaluation, HGSE
Lily An is a PhD student in Education Policy and Program Evaluation at Harvard University and a PIER Fellow at the Center for Education Policy Research. Her research interests are in educational measurement, causal inference methods, and school accountability policies. Prior to her doctoral studies, Lily was a research analyst at Brown University... Read more about Lily An
Keziah Anderson is a PhD student in History with a Secondary Field in African and African American Studies. Her research is at the nexus of disability,...
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology at Harvard University
Victoria S. Asbury is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Harvard University studying political behavior and attitudes. She draws upon computational text...
Natalie Ayers is a PhD student in the Department of Government studying Methodology and International Relations. Her research interests include developing and applying computational methods, including geospatial analytics, machine learning, and... Read more about Natalie Ayers
Anthony is a PhD candidate in Public Policy. His research interests are in the fields of public economics and labor economics. His work in public economics focuses on the economics of child welfare and impact of foster care... Read more about Anthony Bald
PhD Student at the Department of Government Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Prize Fellow
Maria Ballesteros is a PhD Student in Government at Harvard University using quantitative methods to study the role of gender in political violence. Originally from Mexico City, María graduated with honors from ITAM with a B.A. in Political Science. Prior to coming to Harvard... Read more about María Ballesteros
Omar Barbiero is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Harvard University. He uses both empirical and theoretical methods to study the economic effects of...
Avishay studies political theory and international relations with a focus on democratic civil-military relations. He is currently conducting research on...
Shweta's research interests are at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and environmental resources. She currently works on research about geographical and administrative determinants of... Read more about Shweta Bhogale
Jimmy Biblarz is a doctoral student in Sociology & Social Policy. He is interested in how features of neighborhoods and schools limit or improve children's... Read more about Jimmy Biblarz
Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, GSAS PhD Candidate in International Relations/Political Science, Geneva Graduate Institute
Leopoldo Biffi is a visiting fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University, and PhD candidate in international relations/political science...
I am a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. My research uses quantitative approaches to study topics broadly related to political... Read more about Sean Bock
Jeremy is a PhD student in the Government department at Harvard, and is interested in the political ecoNomy of development. He earned his BA and MSc degrees at... Read more about Jeremy Bowles
Jessie is a PhD student in the Department of Government. She studies Comparative Politics and Political EcoNomy, with substantive interests in urban development, large-scale corruption, organized crime, and bureaucracy. Thus far, she has concentrated her research... Read more about Jessie Bullock
António Câmara is a PhD student in the Department of Government. His research is at the intersection of politics and computing. Methodologically, he is interested in using and creating machine learning, natural language processing, and game theoretic models to study political behavior and public opinion... Read more about António Câmara
I am working under Professor Skocpol on her project "Shifting US Political Terrains," specifically to collect and analyze data related to political... Read more about Jesse Zhang
Visiting Researcher, Center for Geographic Analysis
Nicole is a Visiting Researcher at the CGA and was previously a Principal Member of Technical Staff on the Oracle Spatial development team... Read more about Nicole Alexander
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Government, FAS
Feyaad Allie is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government. In July 2024, he will begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Government. Feyaad’s research broadly focuses on identity, democracy, and representation. His book project studies the causes and consequences of the political inclusion of marginalized groups with a focus on India. In other work, Feyaad studies... Read more about Feyaad Allie
Research Fellow in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
Sam Arbesman is a Research Fellow in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, working in the group of Nicholas Christakis. He completed a PhD in...
Research Associate, TH Chan School of Public Health
Thiri is an accomplished environmental scientist specializing in Land Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) and energy systems. Her extensive expertise includes remote sensing, ecology, biogeochemistry, and land change modeling. Currently, Thiri's research focuses on advancing methods, models, and emerging technologies in data science for processing, analyzing, and fusing heterogeneous remote sensing data... Read more about Thiri Shwesin Aung
Michael Bar-Sinai holds a BSc in software engineer from the Technion, and is working on his PhD dissertation in Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel...
Lead Instructor, GIS Institute (CGA)Professor, Dept of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan
Scott is the Lead Instructor for the CGA GIS Institute. Scott has expertise in advanced applications of GIS and GIS training for academic research. He holds an... Read more about Scott Bell
Post-Doctoral Fellow, IQSS Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Eli is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on developing statistical and computational methods... Read more about Eli Ben-Michael
Andrea Blasco is a research associate at the Institute of Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University where he's working for the Laboratory for... Read more about Andrea Blasco
Associate of IQSS Professor, Northeastern University
Dr. Kevin Boudreau's research centers on the design of business and technology strategies for large-scale digital platforms and infrastructure. He is particularly interested in digital innovation in technology, science, knowledge, and education-intensive environments, extending beyond more conventional consumer platforms... Read more about Kevin J Boudreau
J'reyesha is a born and raised Portlander. She is a University of Portland alumni (’15), where she graduated with a degree in civil engineering with an environmental focus and minor. J'reyesha currently works as a design engineer and project manager for the City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services... Read more about J'reyesha Brannon
Visiting Fellow, Harvard University Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
NaLette Brodnax is an Assistant Professor of Data Science in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She received a joint PhD in public... Read more about NaLette Brodnax
Visiting Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard
Philip Brookins is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany... Read more about Philip Brookins
Erik has a master's in Environmental Science and experience in IT implementations, software development, SCRUM and Lean/Six Sigma and graphic design... Read more about Erik Buunk
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
Dr. Yusuf Celik's research is on philosophical hermeneutics, posthumanism, and the Digital Humanities. Dr. Celik has also been active for years in the...
He majors in Confucian Classics and Ming history. In recent years, he has published some books about Confucian Classics study and Ming history, namely, Annotations about The Book of Rites... Read more about Shiyin Chen
Yuting Chen is a PhD student from the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research primarily revolves around virtual geographic environment, geographic knowledge engineering and geospatial big data analysis... Read more about Yuting Chen
Danny recently earned his PhD at Caltech in Quantitative Social Sciences, where he developed his research interests in Political Methodology, American Politics and Congress. His research focuses on latent variable models, Bayesian statistics, legislatures, and natural language processing... Read more about Danny Ebanks
Chris's work develops and showcases methods for drawing causal conclusions from observational data when identification assumptions are suspect. He is...
Donald Frederick worked as a post-doctoral fellow for the Human Flourishing Program under the supervision of Professor VanderWeele for two years during 2016 and 2017 on projects concerning the social science of work. His current research continues on the subject of work... Read more about Donald E Frederick
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Human Flourishing Program Associate Professor of Ethics, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
Robert Gahl is the Vice Director of the Markets, Culture, and Ethics (MCE) Research Centre and of the Program of Church Management at the Pontifical...
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at IQSS. This role collaborates with Dataverse team members and other stakeholders within the Dataverse Community to manage, coordinate, and support program activities including reporting, prioritization, and track deliverables. Previously, Boyd served as manager of the Harvard Library Research Data Services group. In addition to research data management... Read more about Ceilyn Boyd
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 support to Harvard-affiliate researchers across the sciences, with a focus on experimental methods, exploratory analysis, and regression modeling of empirical data in R and python... Read more about Joshua Cetron
Research Associate & Data Scientist, Human Flourishing Program
Ying Chen, Sc.D., serves as an empirical research scientist for the program. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School... Read more about Ying Chen
Associate Director of the Human Flourishing Program
Flynn Cratty serves as Associate Director of the Human Flourishing Program. He oversees the Program's day-to-day functions and engagement with Harvard faculty and students. An intellectual historian... Read more about Flynn Cratty
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... Read more about Jorge Dasilva
Danny recently earned his PhD at Caltech in Quantitative Social Sciences, where he developed his research interests in Political Methodology, American Politics and Congress. His research focuses on latent variable models, Bayesian statistics, legislatures, and natural language processing... Read more about Danny Ebanks
Farhan Ghrairi comes to us from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, as well as Harvard Global Support Services, and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Students... Read more about Farhan Ghrairi
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Product Management
Andrew Juraschek is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Product Management at IQSS. In this role, under the direction of the Faculty Director, Andrew partners with the academic, technical, and administrative leadership of the Institute to develop and maintain the various functions and emerging projects across IQSS.
Devika Kakkar is a Project Manager at CGA where she leads the area of Geospatial Data Science and Big Data. She has more than a decade of experience in Geoinformation Science and has been instrumental in building several high-impact geospatial solutions... Read more about Devika Kakkar
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... Read more about Jorge Dasilva
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at IQSS. This role collaborates with Dataverse team members and other stakeholders within the Dataverse Community to manage, coordinate, and support program activities including reporting, prioritization, and track deliverables. Previously, Boyd served as manager of the Harvard Library Research Data Services group. In addition to research data management... Read more about Ceilyn Boyd
Developer, 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-...
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at IQSS. This role collaborates with Dataverse team members and other stakeholders within the Dataverse Community to manage, coordinate, and support program activities including reporting, prioritization, and track deliverables. Previously, Boyd served as manager of the Harvard Library Research Data Services group. In addition to research data management... Read more about Ceilyn Boyd
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 support to Harvard-affiliate researchers across the sciences, with a focus on experimental methods, exploratory analysis, and regression modeling of empirical data in R and python... Read more about Joshua Cetron
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...