Connor Jerzak

Connor Jerzak

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, GSAS
Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Connor Jerzak

Connor Jerzak received a Master’s in Statistics and PhD in Government from Harvard University, where he was advised by Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Xiang Zhou. During graduate school, he also worked as an intern at Adobe Research in San Jose, California with Nikos Vlassis. In 2021-2022, Connor did a one-year postdoc with Adel Daoud and the AI and Global Development Lab at Linköping University in Sweden while serving as a Visiting Scholar in the Program on Governance and Local Development (GLD) at the University of Gothenburg. Since 2022, he has served at the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed machine learning, economics, and political science venues. In 2024, Connor will be teaching at Harvard University.