Benjamin Soltoff
Associate Teaching Professor
Town of Dryden, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Soltoff is an Associate Teaching Professor at Cornell with 11 years of experience designing and teaching graduate-level computational methods and programming for social science. He builds practical curricula and workshops in R, mentors graduate students, and consults on data-driven business solutions that translate social-science questions into reproducible analysis. His background spans academic program leadership—helping launch and coordinate master's programs in computational social science at top institutions—and hands-on instruction in statistics, visualization, and big-data ethics. Trained as a political scientist (PhD, Penn State) who once audited energy-use models early in his career, he blends domain expertise with rigorous computational pedagogy to equip researchers and practitioners to use code as a social-science tool.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science at The Pennsylvania State UniversityB.A., Political Science, Music, Magna cum laude with honors, B.A., Political Science, Music, Magna cum laude with honors at James Madison UniversityThe Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at University of Virginia
Github Skills (89)
lda10
bookdown10
ord10
r10
crowd10
science10
climate-science10
tsne10
modeling10
ecology9
datasets9
rstudio9
data-science9
rmarkdown9
tidy8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
math-camp/course
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Computational math and stats camp for UChicago MACSS program
Contributions:65 commits, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
cis-ds/data-wrangling-relational-data-and-factors
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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