Research Working Groups
Computational Social Science
About the Working Group
We explore profound and urgent questions about how the information revolution will transform society as a whole.
The incipient field of computational social science continues to generate an array of interdisciplinary projects, often pursued in partnership with computer scientists, statisticians, and mathematicians. Some involve leveraging tools of prediction and machine learning to assist in tackling policy problems. Others entail applying recent advances in speech and image recognition to classic and novel problems in the social sciences. These projects often require methodological innovation or scaling proven techniques to new levels, as well as designing new metrics and interfaces to make research findings intelligible to scholars who lack coding skills but have deep domain expertise. The DSI often collaborates with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.
Committee
Computational Social Science
Manan Ahmed
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of History
Elias Bareinboim
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Peter S. Bearman
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology
David Blei
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics -
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Paulo Blikstein
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Teachers College
Associate Professor of Communications, Media and Learning Technology Design
Alex Bowers
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Teachers College
Professor of Education Leadership
Merlin Chowkwanyun
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Mailman School of Public Health
Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Matthew J. Connelly
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of History - Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy
Bo Cowgill
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor of Business
Thomas A. DiPrete
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Giddings Professor of Sociology - Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy
Greg Eirich
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer in the Discipline of Sociology
Yuri Faenza
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jeffrey Fagan
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Columbia Law School
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law -
Mailman School of Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Jacob Fish
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Robert A.W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and Department Chair
Kellen Funk
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Columbia Law School
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law
Andrew E. Gelman
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Higgins Professor of Statistics and Professor of Political Science
Jacqueline Gottlieb
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Zuckerman Institute
Professor of Neuroscience
Vineet Goyal
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jorge Guzman
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor of Business
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
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School of International and Public Affairs
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Shigeo Hirano
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Political Science
Julia Hirschberg
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science
Matthew L. Jones
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization
Eunji Kim
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Colin Wayne Leach
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Barnard College
Professor of Psychology
Seonjoo Lee
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Mailman School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Clinical Biostatistics (in Psychiatry)
Yao Lu
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Sociology
Daniel Malinsky
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Michael Mauskapf
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor of Business
Kathleen R. McKeown
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science -
Data Science Institute
Founding Director
Tamar Mitts
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School of International and Public Affairs
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Suresh Naidu
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School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Oded Netzer
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Columbia Business School
Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
Serena Ng
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics
Kenneth Prewitt
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School of International and Public Affairs
Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs
David K. Rosner
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Mailman School of Public Health
Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences -
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of History
Tim Roughgarden
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Mario Small
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Quetelet Professor of Social Science
Pamela Smith
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Seth Low Professor of History
Jack Snyder
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School of International and Public Affairs
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations
David C. Stark
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology
Youmi Suk
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Teachers College
Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics
Eric L. Talley
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Columbia Law School
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Dennis Tenen
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Savannah Thais
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Data Science Institute
Associate Research Scientist
Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Olivier Toubia
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Columbia Business School
Glaubinger Professor of Business
Anthony Vanky
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Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Greg Wawro
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Political Science and Department Chair
Joshua Whitford
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of Sociology
Chris H. Wiggins
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Systems Biology
Xiao Wu
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Zhou Yu
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Renzhe Yu
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Teachers College
Assistant Professor of Learning Analytics/Educational Data Mining
Ming Yuan
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Data Science Institute
Associate Director for Research -
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics
Richard Zemel
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Computer Science
Tian Zheng
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics and Department Chair
Affiliated Member
Computational Social Science
Daniel Björkegren
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School of International and Public Affairs
Assistant Professor
Hortense Fong
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor, Marketing Division
Tian Gu
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Kiyohito Iigaya
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry
Bruce M. Kogut
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Columbia Business School
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics -
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Sociology
Hannah Li
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor of Business Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Zhonghua Liu
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Yamil Velez
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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Political Science