Visiting Scholars, Fellows, & General Affiliates

Heidi Legg

Heidi R Legg

IQSS Affiliate
Former Fellow, Future of Media Project

Heidi Legg was formerly the Future of Media fellow at the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard 2020-2022 where she indexed the entire US and Canadian media system with extensive ownership details on every outlet. By mapping the commercial and non-profit US Media ecosystems she has been able to offer informed solutions on improving transparency and trust in news. Her index work was published in mainstream media Axios, USA Today, Nieman Labs, Columbia Journalism Review, and the UK’s Press-Gazette. Heidi wrote... Read more about Heidi R Legg

Shaojian Li

Shaojian Li

Visiting Scholar, China Biographical Database (CBDB)
PhD Student, School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China

Shaojian Li is a PhD student in the school of information resource management at Renmin University of China. His research interests are mainly about...

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Hila Lifshitz Assaf

Hila Lifshitz Assaf

Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business
Affiliate, LISH
Areas of research:  Digitizing Innovation, Open Innovation, AI in Organizations, Future of work

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf is an Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at New York University Stern School of Business. She is also an affiliate of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.

Professor Lifshitz-Assaf’s research focuses on developing an in-depth empirical and theoretical understanding of the micro-foundations of scientific and technological innovation and knowledge creation processes in the digital age. She explores how the ability to innovate is being transformed, as well as the challenges and opportunities the transformation means for R&D organizations, professionals and their work. She conducted an in-depth 3-year longitudinal field study of NASA’s experimentation with open innovation online platforms and communities, resulting in a scientific breakthrough. This study received the best dissertation Grigor McClelland Award at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 2015, Best Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) paper based on dissertation (2018) and Best published paper elected by organizational communication and information systems division of Academy of Management (2018).

Lingbo Liu

Lingbo Liu

Visiting Scholar, Center for Geographic Analysis

Lingbo Liu is a Lecturer at the Department of Urban Planning, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, vice director of Urban Innovation Lab, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His research field focuses on healthy cities... Read more about Lingbo Liu

Lingsong Liu

Lingsong Liu

Visiting Scholar, China Biographical Database (CBDB)
PhD Candidate, Nanjing Normal University

Lingsong Liu is a fellow in the China...

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Katelyn Long

Katelyn Long

John and Daria Barry Post-Doctoral Fellow, Human Flourishing Program
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chan School of Public Health
Katelyn Long's current work focuses on the group dynamics of religion on human flourishing and the development of tradition-specific spiritual well-being measures. She completed her doctoral studies at Boston University School of Public Health... Read more about Katelyn Long
Wei Luo

Wei Luo

Associate, Center for Geographic Analysis
Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Wei Luo is a Research Associate at the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School... Read more about Wei Luo

Ji Ma

Ji Ma

China Biographical Database

I'm a PhD candidate and Instructor in Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, with PhD minor in Data Science at IU School of Informatics and Computing. I mainly use data science methodologies... Read more about Ji Ma

Eileen McDonagh

Eileen McDonagh

Associate of IQSS
Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University

Eileen McDonagh is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and is the recipient of major fellowships and grants, including those from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and the National Science Foundation... Read more about Eileen McDonagh

Michael McGarrah

Michael Walsh McGarrah

Visiting Scholar, HGSE

Michael's research identifies risk factors for early substance use among children and parses the dimensionality of psychopathology, more broadly, in terms of emergent internalizing and externalizing behaviors. He uses advanced psychometric and applied statistical methods in the field of structural equation modelling to explore these topics, including latent class growth models and auto-regressive latent trajectory models with structured residuals... Read more about Michael Walsh McGarrah

Vinay Mehra

Vinay Mehra

Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School

Vinay Mehra is interested in how quantative social science research methods can be applied to investigative journalism.

Dritan Nesho

Dritan Nesho

Fellow, IQSS
Director, Microsoft Corporation

Dritan Nesho is a business executive and entrepreneur with experience in corporate strategy, market research, product development, technology, media, and...

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