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.
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner is a political scientist and an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He researches American politics, with a focus on political behavior, public policy, local politics... Read more about Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
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
Riley is a PhD student in Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research interests include political psychology, political geography, and urban... Read more about Riley Carney
PhD Candidate in Health Policy and Economics, GSAS
Caitlin Carroll is a PhD Candidate in Health Policy and Economics at Harvard University. Her research focuses on health care provider productivity, including... Read more about Caitlin Carroll
Shelby is an advanced doctoral candidate, Presidential Merit Fellow, and Fulbright recipient in Government. Her work focuses broadly on the political economy of education and employment and on migration and forced displacement in low- and middle-income countries with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Outside of Harvard... Read more about Shelby Carvalho
Hannah Castner is a PhD student in Sociology and a Presidential Scholar in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Hannah's research interests surround...
Graduate Student, Department of GovernmentGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Political Psychology, Political Geography, Population theory and demographics, technology (especially communications), International Relations (especially the... Read more about Christopher Michael Celaya
Jeremiah Cha is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government. He is interested in questions of democratic representation, minority candidate emergence...
Global Heath and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Angela Chang is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Health Systems track at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School... Read more about Angela Y Chang
Juan Pablo (JP) Chauvin is a PhD candidate in Public Policy. His research focuses on Development EcoNomics, Urban EcoNomics and Labor EcoNomics, with an... Read more about Juan Pablo (JP) Chauvin
Project Associate, Climate Justice Design Fellowship Graduate Student, AP/MUP, Graduate School of Design
Sophie Weston Chien is a designer-organizer. She builds liberated spaces and communities through social and ecological design. This means altering power in society through the built environment and designing resilient relationships with care... Read more about Sophie Weston Chien
Jane Choi is a PhD student in Sociology. She researches culture, education, race, and inequality. Using both qualitative and quantitative data, she has...
Kaitlyn is a PhD candidate in the Government Department. She studies Comparative Politics with a substantive focus on political violence and armed groups. Her dissertation project centers around how the local presence of organized crime affects... Read more about Kaitlyn Chriswell
PhD Student in Sociology, FAS PIER Fellow, Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
Marissa Combs is a PhD Student in Sociology, a PIER Fellow at the Center for Education Policy Research, and a Presidential Scholar in the Graduate School...
Aleksandra Conevska is a first year PhD student in the Department of Government. Her work focuses broadly on the political economy of climate change, energy, and environmental degradation. Within this broad agenda, she is specifically interested in... Read more about Aleksandra Conevska
My research interests are in Comparative Politics and Political Economy, with a focus on the political economy of primary and secondary education and Latin American politics... Read more about Julia Smith Coyoli
Hannah's research interests are broadly related to race/ethnicity, identity formation, skin-tone stratification, discrimination, and how perceptions of...
PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Jorge Cuartas Ricaurte is a Ph.D. student and research assistant at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on the analysis of human development and parenting in contexts of adversity (i.e., violence and poverty), the consequences of... Read more about Jorge Cuartas Ricaurte
Lindsey studies Urban Economics, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics. She is particularly interested in increasing returns to scale markets, such as... Read more about Lindsey Currier
I am an Economics Ph.D. student at Harvard University. I am originally from Rome (Italy) and, before coming to Harvard, I received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in...
Derick da Silva Baum is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University. His research interests revolve around social network analysis, causal inference, and Bayesian statistics. In addition to his primary research project, which uses Bayesian inference to investigate personal network size, he has worked on methods for separating age, period, and cohort effects... Read more about Derick da Silva Baum
Noah Daponte-Smith studies comparative politics and the political economy of advanced democracies, with a focus on party systems, redistribution and...
Matthew Dardet's research integrates methodology, public opinion, and psychology to more precisely investigate political phenomena within the American context. His latest work involves formally quantifying uncertainty in predicting electoral outcomes... Read more about Matthew E Dardet
Noah is a PhD student in the Department of Government interested in geography and behavior, particularly in a comparative and historical context (persistence, legacies, historical political economy). More specifically, he is interested in how geography influences political behavior, and how political behavior in turn varies across space... Read more about Noah Dasanaike
Research Assistant, Undergraduate Research Scholars (URS) Undergraduate in Environmental Science and Public Policy; secondary concentration in Global Health and Health Policy and citation in Spanish
Seo-Hyun is interested in the intersection of health and environmental change, particularly regarding marine ecosystems. Associated with IQSS, she is working on a project examining changes in nutrition... Read more about Seo-Hyun Yoo
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
Between UCSB, Michigan State, Harvard, and UT-Austin, I’ve been teaching at universities for over a decade. My courses aim to enable students to harness the power of graphic communication by understanding fundamental concepts as well as learning contemporary design techniques. I am currently teaching Sports Analytics... Read more about Kirk Goldsberry
Richard S. Grossman is Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and a Visiting Scholar at The Institute. He teaches classes in...
Professor of Economics, Le Moyne College Visiting Research Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research
Wayne A. Grove is a Professor of Economics at Le Moyne College, an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and a Visiting Research...
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science & Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian Guay is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT in the Department of Political Science & Sloan School of Management. Brian’s research is at the intersection of political behavior and methodology, with a specific focus on misinformation and polarization... Read more about Brian Guay
Clemens Havas is a PhD candidate at University of Salzburg’s Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS with a background in computer science. He specializes in...
I'm interested in the Chinese History from 10th to 14th century, Genealogies of Song Dynasty，and Didital Humanities.During my visiting at Harvard University,I... Read more about Zhaoquan He
Visiting Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition as well as LMU Munich Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition as well as LMU Munich
Jonas is a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and at the LMU Munich, Germany. He is a Visiting... Read more about Jonas Heite
Visiting Fellow, Digital Emotions Lab, D^3/LISH PhD student, Graz University of Technology
Alina Herderich is a predoctoral researcher at the Digital Emotions Lab led by Amit Goldenberg at HBS. Her home university is the Graz University of...
Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding and optimizing societal well-being and health through lifestyle habits rooted in societal and individual principles... Read more about Maria Soledad Hershey
Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Assistant Professor at University of Washington
Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why some attempts at ... Read more about Benjamin Mako Hill
Visiting Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard
Florian Hillen is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS), at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at... Read more about Florian Hillen
Christina Hinton, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Human Flourishing Program and the Founder and CEO of Research Schools International (RSI). At Harvard, Dr. Hinton leads the Human Flourishing Program's work in education, researching character skills (e.g., kindness, gratitude, seeing the good in others) that support loving relationships and flourishing in schools internationally. She also co-leads our Flourishing Network... Read more about Christina Hinton
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Data Science Institute
Melody is a Wojcicki Troper Harvard Data Science Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on developing methods for credible causal inference...
Deborah Hurley is the Principal of the consulting firm she founded in 1996, which advises governments, international organizations, companies, Non-governmental... Read more about Deborah Hurley
Ania Jaroszewicz is a behavioral scientist conducting research at the intersection of economics and psychology. Broadly, her work examines questions related to poverty and inequality, with her current research focusing on how people decide to ask others for help... Read more about Ania Jaroszewicz
Shao-Yu Jheng's research topics include (i) (rapid) industrialization and premature deindustrialization, (ii) state capacity and industrial policy, (iii) institutions, (iv) USA's aid policy, covering the fields across political economy, economic history, development economics, and industrial organization... Read more about Shao-Yu Jheng
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at DallasnVisiting Scholar, Harvard Data Privacy Lab Visiting Scholar, Harvard Data Privacy Lab
Murat Kantarcioglu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the UTD Data Security and Privacy Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. He... Read more about Murat Kantarcioglu
Alejandro is an IQSS Fellow working on research related to course data from HarvardX and the EdX platform with Professor Dustin Tingley and the Office of the... Read more about Alejandro Kantor
Georgia Kernell successfully defended her PhD dissertation in political science at Columbia University in September 2008. Her research interests include... Read more about Georgia Kernell
Junghwan Kim is a postdoctoral fellow at CGA. He received his Ph.D. in Geography (2021) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He also holds a B.S. in Urban Planning and Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Yonsei University (2016) in South Korea and a Master of Urban Planning (MUP) from the UIUC (2018)... Read more about Junghwan Kim
Patrick Lam holds a PhD in political science and masters in statistics from Harvard University. He has taught methods at all levels within the Department of... Read more about Patrick Lam
IQSS Associate University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Sciences, Northeastern University
Most of Lazer's work is based on the idea that how people and organizations are connected together is critical to understanding the functioning, success...
Angela Lee completed a PhD in sociology at Harvard University in 2021. She is currently a Research Scientist at Facebook.
Her dissertation research examined wealth inequality by gender in the United States. She looked at trends in the gender wealth gap over the past three decades, changes in the gender wealth gap over the life course... Read more about Angela Lee
Matthew T. Lee is Research Associate and Director of the Flourishing Network at the Human Flourishing Program. His current research explores topics such...
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...
Dale W. Jorgenson is the...
