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

Andrew Juraschek

Andrew Juraschek

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.
Peter Bol

Peter Bol

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

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Cynthia Dwork

Cynthia Dwork

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

Daniel Gilbert

Daniel Gilbert

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

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Alyssa Goodman

Alyssa A. Goodman

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

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Emmanuel Akyeampong

Emmanuel Akyeampong

Oppenheimer Faculty Director, Center for African Studies
Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Professor Akyeampong joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his PhD in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He...

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James Alt

James Alt

Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, Department of Government

James E. Alt is the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus. His current interests are in comparative political economy; the interaction of...

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Andrew Ballard

Andrew Ballard

Assistant Professor, Department of Government, American University
Assistant Professor of Government at American University specializing in Congressional institutions and elections, applied statistics, and machine learning.
Hillel Bavli

Hillel Bavli

Assistant Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University

Hillel Bavli is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.  He is an experienced litigation attorney whose teaching and scholarship interests are in the areas of evidence law, tort law, complex litigation, law and economics, and empirical legal studies... Read more about Hillel Bavli

Joseph Blitzstein

Joseph Blitzstein

Professor of the Practice in Statistics, Department of Statistics

I'm Joe Blitzstein, an  Professor of the Practice in Statistics at Harvard University. I finished my Ph.D. work at Stanford University in 2006, advised by the inimitable Persi Diaconis. My research is a mixture of statistics, probability, and combinatorics. I'm especially interested in graphical models, complex networks, and Monte Carlo algorithms (including both sequential importance sampling and Markov chains).

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Peter Bol

Peter Bol

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

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Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law
Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is an award-winning legal historian and expert in constitutional law and education law and policy. She has published articles and book chapters on the Supreme Court’s equal protection jurisprudence, civil rights law and history, the Affordable Care Act and education reform in the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal and the Journal of Law & Education... Read more about Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Melani Cammett

Melani Cammett

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government
Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, Chan School of Public Health

Melani Cammett is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She specializes in the political economy of development and the Middle East and North...

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Dara Kay Cohen

Dara Kay Cohen

Professor of Public Policy, HKS

Dara Kay Cohen is Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests span the field of international relations, including international security, civil war and the dynamics of violence, and gender and conflict... Read more about Dara Kay Cohen

Fiery Cushman

Fiery Cushman

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, FAS

Cushman's research investigates how people learn and make decisions in social contexts. He is especially interested in moral judgment and decision-making. Current research projects include: Why, and how, did punishment evolve? What are the emotional systems that prevent us... Read more about Fiery Cushman

David Cutler

David Cutler

Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics

David Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He served as Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1995, was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1995, and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the department of economics and Kennedy School of Government and... Read more about David Cutler

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Adil Ahsan

Adil Ahsan

PhD Student in Public Policy, GSAS

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...

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Layane Alhorr

Layane Alhorr

PhD Candidate, Kennedy School of Government

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

Lily An

Lily An

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

Junyoung Baik

Junyoung Baik

IQSS Computer Lab Assistant
Graduate Student in Regional Studies - East Asia, GSAS

Junyoung Baik is a graduate student at the...

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Anthony Bald

Anthony Bald

PhD Candidate in Public Policy, GSAS

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

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María Ballesteros

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

Le Bao

Le Bao

PhD Candidate, Department of Government, American University
Graduate Fellow, Center for Data Science, American University

Le Bao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and a Graduate Fellow of the Center for Data Science at American University. He studies...

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Sima Biondi

Sima Biondi

PhD Candidate in Government, GSAS

Sima Biondi is a PhD student in the Government...

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Sean Bock

Sean Bock

Graduate student, Department of Sociology
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
Jessie Bullock

Jessie Bullock

PhD Candidate in Government, GSAS

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

Gwen Calais-Haase

Gwen Calais-Haase

PhD Candidate, Department of Government

Gwen Calais-Haase is a PhD Candidate with an academic focus on American Politics, Congress, Legislative Procedure, and Representation.

Antonio Camara

António Câmara

PhD Candidate in Government, GSAS

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

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Iris Gong Cheng

Undergraduate Research Scholar
Iris is interested in research surrounding economics, criminal justice, and law, particularly in a quantitative and data-driven context. She currently works as... Read more about Iris Gong Cheng
Emily Feng

Emily Feng

Undergraduate in Social Studies and Philosophy, Harvard College

Emily Feng is a sophomore at Harvard College pursuing a joint concentration in Social Studies and Philosophy. She is interested in comparative studies of democratization, modes of judicial review, and algorithmic fairness... Read more about Emily Feng

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Caroline Gao

IQSS Undergraduate Research Scholar
Caroline is a first-year studying Economics and... Read more about Caroline Gao
Yi Hua Chen

Yi Hua Chen

Undergraduate in Quantitative Biology, Harvard College
Yi is a junior at Harvard College studying Chemical & Physical Biology. She is interested in understanding how individual components of biology work... Read more about Yi Hua Chen
Annika Khandelwal

Annika Khandelwal

Research Assistant, Grid Project
Undergraduate in Sociology, Harvard College

Annika is a sophomore at Harvard College studying Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is interested in second and third wave feminist activism, as well as...

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Han Nguyen

IQSS Undergraduate Research Scholar
Han is a first-year student at Harvard College,... Read more about Han Nguyen
Casey Traverse

Casey Traverse

Communications Coordinator Intern, LISH
Casey Traverse is the Communications Coordinator Intern at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. She serves to manage all marketing and PR-related... Read more about Casey Traverse
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Linh Vu

IQSS Undergraduate Research Scholar
Linh Vu is a junior at Harvard College studying... Read more about Linh Vu
Melissa Wu

Melissa Wu

Undergraduate in Statistics and Computer Science, Harvard College

Melissa Wu is a student at Harvard College interested in mathematical and computational applications in the social sciences. She is working on the ALARM...

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Seo-Hyun Yoo

Seo-Hyun Yoo

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

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Feyaad Allie

Feyaad Allie

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

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Samuel Arbesman

Samuel Arbesman

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...

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Thiri Shwesin Aung

Thiri Shwesin Aung

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

Scott Bell

Scott Bell

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
Eli Ben-Michael

Eli Ben-Michael

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

Oliver Bertuch

Oliver Bertuch

Developer, Dataverse Core Development Team
Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Co-PI, HERMES Project

Oliver is a Research Software Engineer working...

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Kevin Boudreau

Kevin J Boudreau

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 Brannon

J'reyesha Brannon

Harvard Climate Justice Design Fellow

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

Erik Buunk

Erik Buunk

IQSS Affiliate

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

Yuqi Chen

Yuqi Chen

Research Scholar, China Biographical Database Project

Yuqi is working on the China Biographical...

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Yuting Chen

Yuting Chen

Visiting fellow, Center for Geographic Analysis

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

Li Cong

Li Cong

Visiting Scholar, China Biographical Database (CBDB)

Li Cong's research interest include: digital humanity and local gazetteer, and national culture park.

Danny Ebanks

Danny Ebanks

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Babak Fotouhi

Babak Fotouhi

JSMF Post-doctoral Fellow at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University

Babak employs concepts from sociology, behavioral economics, and network science to study human behavior... Read more about Babak Fotouhi

Robert Gahl

Robert Gahl

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...

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All Staff

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Ceilyn Boyd

Dataverse Development Project Manager

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

Joshua Cetron

Joshua Cetron

Data 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 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

Ying Chen

Ying Chen

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

Danny Ebanks

Danny Ebanks

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Jack Hayes

Jack Hayes

Geospatial Data Scientist (part time), Center for Geographic Analysis
Undergraduate, College of William & Mary

Jack Hayes is a senior at William & Mary...

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Andrew Juraschek

Andrew Juraschek

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

Devika Kakkar

GIS Data Science Project Manager

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

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Administrative Support

Dataverse

Oliver Bertuch

Oliver Bertuch

Developer, Dataverse Core Development Team
Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Co-PI, HERMES Project

Oliver is a Research Software Engineer working...

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Ceilyn Boyd

Dataverse Development Project Manager

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

Product Development

Oliver Bertuch

Oliver Bertuch

Developer, Dataverse Core Development Team
Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Co-PI, HERMES Project

Oliver is a Research Software Engineer working...

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Ceilyn Boyd

Dataverse Development Project Manager

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

Joshua Cetron

Joshua Cetron

Data 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 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

Mike Reekie

Mike Reekie

Sr Project Manager for Engineering and Technical Operations

Technical Support

Mike Reekie

Mike Reekie

Sr Project Manager for Engineering and Technical Operations

Erin Abbott

Visiting Student Researcher
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

Jared Abbott

PhD Student in Government, GSAS
Feb 2018 - May 2020

Edwin Acosta

Undergraduate Research Scholar
Jul 2009 - Sep 2009

Laura Adler

PhD Candidate in Sociology, GSAS
Feb 2019 - May 2022

Dorothy Ahn

Ph.D. Alumnus, Linguistics
Feb 2017 - May 2019

Sarah Arnold

Visiting Undergraduate Fellow
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018

Vedant Bahl

Research Assistant to Prof. Horacio Larreguy
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018

Diana Barreto

Research Assistant to Prof. Latanya Sweeney
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

Esat Bayar

Undergraduate Affiliate
Apr 2018 - May 2021

Emma Berens

IQSS Computer Lab Assistant
Sep 2022 - May 2023

Augustin Bergeron

PhD Candidate in Political Economy and Government
Jan 2020 - May 2021

Lena Borise

PhD Candidate in Linguistics, GSAS
Mar 2016 - May 2019

Jacob Brown

PhD Candidate in Government, GSAS
Jul 2017 - May 2022

Samantha Carr

Visiting Undergraduate Research Intern
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

Wesley Cash

Research Assistant to Prof. Mahzarin Banaji
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018

Hau Chan

Post Doctoral Fellow
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
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