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.
Faculty Co-director, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science, SEAS, Harvard University Co-director, Harvard Data Science Initiative
David Parkes leads research at the interface between economics and computer science, with a focus on electronic commerce, artificial intelligence and...
David Pedulla is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research agenda examines the consequences of nonstandard, contingent, and precarious employment for workers' social and economic outcomes as well as the processes leading to race and gender labor market stratification... Read more about David Pedulla
Director of IACS, An Wang Professor of Computer Science Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Hanspeter Pfister is An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... Read more about Hanspeter Pfister
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School Local affiliate at Center for European Studies
I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, and I am affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
Across the world, dissatisfaction with elected governments is at all-time highs. My research aims... Read more about Vincent Pons
Ariel Procaccia is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He works on a broad and dynamic set of problems related to AI, algorithms... Read more about Ariel Procaccia
Director, Program in Islamic Law (HLS) Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law, a Professor of History, and the faculty director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. She has held appointments as a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as an Associate Professor at NYU Department of... Read more about Intisar Rabb
Pia Raffler is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Harvard University. She studies the politics of development, focusing on governance, bureaucracy, and electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa... Read more about Pia Raffler
Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS in 1982. He clerked for... Read more about Mark Ramseyer
Mitchell L. & Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
The principal focus of Dr. Robins' research has been the development of analytic methods appropriate for drawing causal inferences from complex observational... Read more about James Robins
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, HKS
Dani Rodrik is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has published widely in the areas of economic...
Jon Rogowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His work focuses broadly on American politics, with specific... Read more about Jon C Rogowski
George Gund Professor of Economics & Business Administration - Emeritus, Harvard Business School Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Alvin Elliot Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at ...
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, Department of Statistics
Professor Rubin's research interests include causal inference in experiments and observational studies, inference in sample surveys with nonresponse and...
Kevin M. Ryan is Professor of Linguistics specializing in phonology, which concerns the patterning of speech sounds and sound-related phenomena in human languages and verbal arts
Raffaella Sadun is a Professor at the Harvard Business School. Professor Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. Her research documents the economic and cultural determinants of managerial choices, as well as... Read more about Rafaella Sadun
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology
Robert J. Sampson is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, where he was appointed in 2003. Before that he taught for twelve... Read more about Robert Sampson
Professor of Political Science at University of Massachesetts, Amherst
Brian Schaffner is a Professor in the political science department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on public opinion,... Read more about Brian Schaffner
Mark is a professor of economics at the University of Fribourg. He mostly works in political economics and public economics. He is interested in how...
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science Professor of Economics and of Statistics
Neil Shephard has been Professor of Economics and of Statistics at Harvard University since 2013. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Statistics (first class awarded with distinction) from the University of York and a M.Sc. in Statistics (awarded with distinction) and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (LSE)... Read more about Neil Shephard
George D. Markham Professor of Government, Department of Government
Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government. He is the author or co-author of: Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic... Read more about Kenneth Shepsle
John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Andrei Shleifer holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT. Before coming...
Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, FAS
Professor Snyder's primary research and teaching interests are in American politics. He has written on elections, campaign finance, legislative behavior and institutions, direct democracy, the media, and corruption... Read more about James Snyder
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School/Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Stamoulis' research interests are at the intersection of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Data Science. She leads multiple projects that together aim to elucidate the evolving neural circuitry of the typically/atypically developing brain that supports cognitive function across domains, using large-scale brain datasets and novel computational tools. A recent research direction in her laboratory... Read more about Caterina Stamoulis
Matthew Stephenson is Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches administrative law, legislation and regulation, and political...
Sophie Hill is a first year graduate student in the Government department. Her research interests include political ecoNomy and public opinion, with a focus on... Read more about Sophie Hill
Ruru Hoong is a PhD candidate in Business Economics at Harvard University & HBS. Her research interests are currently predominantly in empirical behavioural and public economics. She is also interested in issues at the intersection of law and economics, such as... Read more about Ruru Hoong
Wei-Fang is a third year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard. Her main research areas are syntax, semantics, the syntax-semantics interface and laboratory phonology... Read more about Wei-Fang Hsieh
Yujing Huang is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics. She is interested in how different components of language interact. Her research interest... Read more about Yujing Huang
Uma Ilavarasan is a graduate student in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where she studies the construction, dissemination, and consequences of ways of thinking about (social and political) difference... Read more about Uma M Ilavarasan
Ronak Jain is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Harvard University. Her research interests include development and behavioral economics. She did her MPhil...
I am a doctoral student studying global early child health and development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I am currently conducting a study... Read more about Joshua Jeong
Jonathan is a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Harvard Divinity School. He is interested in American religious history, specifically the Metropolitan Community Churches during the AIDS epidemic... Read more about Jonathan Ji
Sara is a first year PhD student and a presidential scholar at Harvard studying education policy and the economics of education. Sara’s main research interests lie in applied econometrics, the economics of education, and labor economics, with a focus on inequality. She is passionate about using quantitative methods to understand and improve inequality in education and the labor market... Read more about Sara Ji
Yizhou is a PhD student in the Business Economics program at GSAS and HBS. His research interests span topics in labor ecoNomics, development ecoNomics and... Read more about Yizhou Jin
Drew Johnston is a PhD candidate in Economics. His research interests are in urban economics, labor economics, and political economy. He is particularly interested in the way social networks interact with the above fields, and in the ways in which new sources of data can be used to address questions in these fields... Read more about Drew Johnston
Harvard GSAS, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
I am an archaeologist interested in the origins and life cycles of ecoNomic and social institutions. My work is primarily in Iron Age Southwestern Spain (c.... Read more about Philip Johnston
My research focuses on the political economy of sustainable development. Specifically, I am interested in how institutions interact with local communities...
Graduate Student, Harvard School of Public Health Global Health Economics
Mahesh Karra is a second year doctoral student in global health ecoNomics at the Harvard School of Public Health. His academic and research interests are... Read more about Mahesh Karra
Hanna is a PhD student in Sociology. Originally from New Haven, CT, she graduated from Princeton in 2011 with a concentration in Sociology and a certificate in American Studies... Read more about Hanna Katz
Chris is a PhD Candidate in the Government Department. He studies American Politics and Political Methodology. Substantively, he focuses on legislative redistricting and electoral reform... Read more about Christopher T. Kenny
Stephanie is a PhD student in economics. She employs methods in applied econometrics, text analysis and industrial organization to address questions in urban public finance and economic geography... Read more about Stephanie Kestelman
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mathew Kiang is a first-year doctoral student at the Harvard School of Public Health studying social epidemiology. His research interests include the... Read more about Mathew Kiang
Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government
My dissertation is on the regional ramifications of the commitment problem between rising and declining great powers. While I am mostly interested in foreign... Read more about Jeehye Kim
Ariella is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School where she studies behavioral design. Specifically, she is interested in how... Read more about Ariella Kirstal
Roman Klimke is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at Harvard University. His research interests lie at the intersection of labor and public economics. His current research investigates how labor markets respond to the introduction of social programs... Read more about Roman Klimke
Carly Knight is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology. She received her BA in political science and ecoNomics from Duke University. She began her... Read more about Carly Knight
Visiting PhD Student, D^3 (Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, LISH) PhD Fellow, Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School.
Yotam's goal is to provide research based insights on the roots, determinants and implications of scientific practices and organization, with a focus on...
Alice is a PhD candidate in Human Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich. At Harvard, she is an Institute Fellow working in Marie-Abèle... Read more about Alice Sommer
Mehrnoush Soroush is a landscape archaeologist specializing in ancient water management systems in the Middle East. She holds a Ph.D. in the Study of the...
Ádám Stefkovics is a visiting researcher at IQSS with a Fulbright scholarship, an assistant lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Social Sciences; and director of polling and market research group at Századvég Foundation... Read more about Ádám Stefkovics
Post-Doctoral Researcher, IQSS Assistant Professor of International Relations, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
Dr. Sula specializes in the study of foreign policy and research methodology in social sciences. He is currently working on the application of computer... Read more about Ismail Erkam Sula
Visiting Scholar, Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and of International Affairs at the George Washington University
Zoe Szajnfarber is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Her research focuses on design and innovation management in complex systems, with particular emphasis on how the organizational and technical systems architectures... Read more about Zoe Szajnfarber
Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard
Misha Teplitskiy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH). Previously, he was in the Sociology PhD program at the... Read more about Misha Teplitskiy
Visiting Scholar, Human Flourishing Program Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
Jonathan D. Teubner has served in a number of leadership capacities in academia, business, and non-profits and has pioneered the application of machine learning to improving peace building methods. Teubner is a permanent research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. For the academic years 2021-2024, Teubner has led Social Connectedness Research... Read more about Jonathan D Teubner
Visiting Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science at HarvardAssistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of ManagementCo-director of the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab) Assistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of ManagementCo-director of the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab) Co-director of the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab)
Neil is an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-director of the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab). He... Read more about Neil Thompson
Visiting Scholar, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard Regents' Professor Emeritus at Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech Founder, Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Returns (TI:GER)
Ana Trisovic is a Sloan postdoctoral fellow at IQSS. She is a member of the early-career board of Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) and the review board in data science and reproducibility of the Journal of Systems Research (JSys)... Read more about Ana Trisovic
PhD student, Complex Systems and Data Science, University of Vermont
Milo's research applies network science and complex systems to understanding intentional community design. His past work includes propaganda simulations, constraint-based automatic community design, analysis of alt-tech social platforms, and coordinating... Read more about Milo Trujillo
Sternberg Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University
Alessandro Vespignani is Sternberg Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University with appointments in the College of Computer and Information... Read more about Alessandro Vespignani
IQSS Institute Fellow Senior Project Manager, China Biographical Database Visiting Researcher, Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History, Peking University; and Center for Statistical Science, Tsinghua University
Hongsu Wang is the senior project manager of the China Biographical Database project (CBDB), which is jointly owned by Harvard University, Academia Sinica, and Peking University... Read more about Hongsu Henry Wang
Associate Director and Philosophy Research Associate, Human Flourishing Program
Matthew F. Wilson, Ph.D., serves as Associate Director and Philosophy Research Associate of the Human Flourishing Program. In addition to his research agenda,... Read more about Matthew F. Wilson
Visiting Scholar, Center for Geographic Analysis Associate Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky
Matthew W. Wilson, PhD, is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University... Read more about Matthew W. Wilson
Associate of IQSS, China Biographical Database (CBDB) Associate Professor, School of Art of Tsinghua University
Xiang Fan is an Associate Professor at the School of Art and Design of Tsinghua University, and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Drawing inspiration from historical and sociological data, she creates generative artworks as a critical means of observing and commenting on the real world... Read more about Fan Xiang
Associate Professor from the Center for Historical Geographical Studies of Fudan University
Main research direction is the political geography during historical period of China, Particularly concerned about the border demarcation of the administrative... Read more about Jianping Xu
PhD Candidate in Political Science, Department of Government, American University
Selim Yaman is a PhD candidate in Political Science at American University's School of Public Affairs, where he specializes in political methodology and comparative politics. His research focuses on natural language processing and Bayesian statistics... Read more about Selim Yaman
Ji Su Yoo conducts research with Professor Latanya Sweeney on data analysis to evaluate the impact of technology on society through various projects... Read more about Ji Su Yoo
Visiting Scholar, China Biographical Database (CBDB) Joint PhD at Harvard University
Nearly 20 papers from A&HCI, SSCI, CSSCI were accepted. He actively participates in many international conferences such as CES, ASA, CIES, AESA, EERA...
Research Associate, Center for Geographic Analysis
Daoye Zhu is a Research Associate at the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) of Harvard University. He obtained his PhD in Data Science (Computer Science and Technology) from the Center for Data Science of Peking University in 2022. He was a Visiting Scholar... Read more about Daoye Zhu
Research Associate, Laboratory for Innovation Science
Chetan Krishna is a research associate focusing on the processes of science and technology commercialization and the adoption of AI/ML/NLP in businesses... Read more about Chetan Krishna
Research Associate, Laboratory for Innovation Science
Hirotaka Miura is a Research Associate at Harvard Business School with a primary focus on supporting research conducted by Professor Chiara Farronato... Read more about Hirotaka Miura
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...
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science
Jacqueline Ng Lane's research examines how diverse teams in science, medicine, and knowledge-work can make use of their resources and informational advantages to achieve innovation breakthroughs... Read more about Jacqueline Ng Lane
Program Director and Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Innovation Science
Jin H. Paik serves as the lab’s general manager. He works to develop the lab's strategic vision, as well as to direct project and research activities... Read more about Jin Paik
Distinguished Researcher, Center for Geographic Analysis
As the Executive Director of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) from 2003-2019, Douglas Richardson led a highly successful renewal of the organization. He greatly expanded its membership and international footprint, developed dynamic and wide-ranging new... Read more about Douglas Richardson
Dom is a Quantitative Social Science Researcher at IQSS and is interested in political science methodology, survey research, and American politics. Prior...
