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Dae Woong Ham

Since 2022 during my PhD days, I have had a close collaboration with the Netflix experimentation team. In particular, given the rise of A/B testing, Netflix needed a new statistical method that allowed them to terminate experiments earlier, i.e., run many experiments faster and better. In my recent papers, where I worked directly with Netflix ...

Edgar Franco-Vivanco

Edgar Franco-Vivanco is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a faculty associate at the Center for Political Studies. His research interests include Latin American politics, historical political economy, criminal violence, and indigenous politics. Prof. Franco-Vivanco is interested in implementing machine learning tools to improve the analysis of historical data, in particular handwritten documents. He ...

Yuri Zhukov

My research focuses on the causes, dynamics and outcomes of conflict, at the international and local levels. My methodological areas of interest include spatial statistics, mathematical/computational modeling and text analysis. Map/time-series/network plot, showing the flow of information across battles in World War II. Z axis is time, X and Y axes are longitude and latitude, ...

Barbara Koremenos

Every year, states negotiate, conclude, sign, and give effect to hundreds of new international agreements. Koremenos argues that the detailed design provisions of such agreements matter for phenomena that scholars, policymakers, and the public care about: When and how international cooperation occurs and is maintained. Theoretically, Koremenos develops hypotheses regarding how cooperation problems like incentives ...

Christopher Fariss

My core research focuses on the politics and measurement of human rights, discrimination, violence, and repression. I use computational methods to understand why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other projects cover a broad array of themes but ...

Yuki Shiraito

Yuki Shiraito works primarily in the field of political methodology. His research interests center on the development and applications of Bayesian statistical models and large-scale computational algorithms for data analysis. He has applied these quantitative methods to political science research including a survey experiment on public support for conflicting parties in civil war, heterogeneous effects ...

Michael Traugott

Michael Traugott, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Professor Emeritus, Center for Political Studies and Adjunct Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research. Professor Traugott studies the mass media and their impact on American politics. This includes research ...

Brian Min

Brian Min, PhD, is Associate Professor of Political Science in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Min holds secondary appointments as Research Associate Professor in the Center for Political Studies and the Institute for Social Research. Prof. Min studies the political economy of development with ...

Jowei Chen

Jowei Chen studies redistricting, political geography, distributive politics, and executive agencies. His research has examined the partisan and racial effects of redistricting maps and the effect of political geography on redistricting outcomes. He has studied how legislators’ pork-barreling strategies are shaped by the electoral geography of their districts and how government spending influences voters. Finally, ...

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Jowei Chen

Associate Professor, Political Science, LSACenter for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

Christopher Fariss

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Edgar Franco-Vivanco

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Robert J. Franzese Jr.

Professor and Associate Chair, Political Science, LSA

Dae Woong Ham

Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations, Stephen M Ross School of Business

Assistant Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Barbara Koremenos

Professor, Political Science

Walter Mebane

Professor, Political Science, LSA Center for Political Studies Statistics, LSA

Brian Min

Associate Professor, Political Science, LSA Center for Political Studies Institute for Social Research

Yuki Shiraito

Assistant Professor, Political Science, LSA