Distinguished Professor
Interdisciplinary With CSSH
Boston
Distinguished Professor
Interdisciplinary With CSSH
Boston
Distinguished Professor
Interdisciplinary With CSSH
Boston
Distinguished Professor
Interdisciplinary With CSSH
Boston
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David Lazer is a university distinguished professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University, affiliated with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is interested in computational social science and social networks, with a particular focus on misinformation and political communication.
Lazer is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. He co-directs the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks – Northeastern’s center for digital humanities and computational social science. He is co-lead of the COVID states project, which has charted public opinion in all 50 states through the pandemic, as well as the co-founder of Volunteer Science, the citizen science project to study human behavior. Lazer received his doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan in 1996.
Lazer’s work has been covered by hundreds of news outlets, including the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and CBS Evening News. His research has been published in such journals as Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and the American Political Science Review. His most recent book, Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy, authored with Michael Neblo and Kevin Esterling, examines potential reform measures to improve the deliberative potential of US democracy. He has been the principal investigator on more than $13 million of grants from the NSF, ARL, ARO, IARPA, and other entities. Lazer has served in multiple leadership and editorial positions, including as a board member for the International Network of Social Network Analysts (INSNA), reviewing editor for Science, associate editor of Social Networks and Network Science, and numerous other editorial boards and program committees.
he/him/his
David Lazer is a university distinguished professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University, affiliated with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is interested in computational social science and social networks, with a particular focus on misinformation and political communication.
Lazer is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. He co-directs the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks – Northeastern’s center for digital humanities and computational social science. He is co-lead of the COVID states project, which has charted public opinion in all 50 states through the pandemic, as well as the co-founder of Volunteer Science, the citizen science project to study human behavior. Lazer received his doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan in 1996.
Lazer’s work has been covered by hundreds of news outlets, including the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and CBS Evening News. His research has been published in such journals as Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and the American Political Science Review. His most recent book, Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy, authored with Michael Neblo and Kevin Esterling, examines potential reform measures to improve the deliberative potential of US democracy. He has been the principal investigator on more than $13 million of grants from the NSF, ARL, ARO, IARPA, and other entities. Lazer has served in multiple leadership and editorial positions, including as a board member for the International Network of Social Network Analysts (INSNA), reviewing editor for Science, associate editor of Social Networks and Network Science, and numerous other editorial boards and program committees.
