Global_Policy_lab_team

We combine data, mathematical models, and coffee to understand the dynamics of human societies.

We do research so that global policies can be informed, effective, and fair.

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Principal Investigators

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Joshua Blumenstock
Joshua Blumenstock

Chancellor's Associate Professor, School of Information and Goldman School of Public Policy

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Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang

Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy

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Senior Fellows and Post Docs

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Nitin Kohli
Nitin Kohli

Postdoctoral Fellow

differential privacy | game theory and mechanism design | cryptography | law and policy

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Rachel Young
Rachel Young

Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow

environmental hazards | migration | causal inference | public finance

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Emily Goldman
Emily Goldman

Senior Program Lead

Migration & displacement | social inequality

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Doctoral Fellows

More on the GPL Doctoral Fellows Program here.

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Emily Aiken
Emily Aiken

PhD Student, School of Information

machine learning | social protection policy | development economics | algorithmic fairness and transparency

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Simón Ramírez Amaya
Simón Ramírez Amaya

PhD Student, School of Information

machine learning | development economics | finance

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Nick Depsky
Nick Depsky

Energy & Resources Group

climate modeling | droughts | food security | migration

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Miyabi Ishihara
Miyabi Ishihara

Statistics

environmental hazards | causal inference | property values

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Simon Greenhill
Simon Greenhill

Ag + Resource Econ

development | environmental change

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Jaecheol Lee
Jaecheol Lee

Fulbright Scholar, Ag + Resource Econ

transboundary air pollution | optimal alert policy | value of subway networks

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Zoe Kahn
Zoe Kahn

PhD Student, School of Information

responsible AI | tech-policy | values and design

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Hikari Murayama
Hikari Murayama

Energy & Resources Group

remote sensing | ecosystems | environmental justice

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Suraj R Nair
Suraj R Nair

PhD Student, School of Information

development economics | machine learning | remote sensing | social networks

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Satej Soman
Satej Soman

PhD Student, School of Information

computational social science | remote sensing | machine learning | bayesian inference

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Susana Constenla
Susana Constenla

PhD Student, School of Information

development economics | econometrics | machine learning | remote sensing

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Ando Shah
Ando Shah

PhD Student, School of Information

deep learning | remote sensing | environmental justice | biodiversity


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Associate doctoral fellows

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Emma Krasovich
Emma Krasovich

Environment and Resources (Stanford University)

applied econometrics | disease ecology | natural resource management | planetary health | global change

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Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson

Sustainable Development
(Columbia University)

ecosystems | air pollution | machine learning | conflict

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Staff

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Jeanette Tseng
Jeanette Tseng

Associate Director

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Taylor Kee
Taylor Kee

Lab Manager and Project Manager, Aerial History Project

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Luke Sherman
Luke Sherman

Data Scientist

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Eugenio Noda
Eugenio Noda

Data Scientist, Aerial History Project

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Shikhar Mehra
Shikhar Mehra

Data Scientist

Development economics | Data Science | Big data engineering

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Leo Selker
Leo Selker

Data Scientist

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[ past members ]