Bruce Desmarais
Co-Founder at Statistical Horizons
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Desmarais is a computational social scientist and entrepreneur with a decade of experience translating network analysis and machine learning methods into actionable insights for academia, industry, and public policy. As Co-Founder & CEO of Public Square Analytics and Director of Penn State’s Center for Social Data Analytics, he blends rigorous research—anchored by a PhD in Political Science from UNC—with product-minded leadership that deploys social data methods at scale. He has held faculty roles from UMass Amherst to Penn State and spent a sabbatical at Meta applying CSS techniques to real-world data problems, signaling comfort moving between scholarship and industry practice. An instructor in machine learning and a frequent collaborator across interdisciplinary teams, he is as at home mentoring students as he is guiding analytics-driven ventures. Notably, his work emphasizes networked behavior and measurement innovations that reveal the structural dynamics behind political and social change.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science and Government at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Public Policy at Eastern Connecticut State University
Github Skills (33)
goodness-of-fit9
longitudinal-data8
mcmc7
bayesian-inference7
principal-component-analysis7
classification-algorithm7
ergm7
social-network-analysis7
prediction6
logistic-regression6
ising-model6
topic-modeling6
subset6
linear-regression6
feature-selection6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
desmarais-lab/neha
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 4 years
desmarais-lab/desmarais-lab.github.io
Dec 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:177 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 9 years 7 months
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