Bruce Desmarais
Co-Founder & CEO at Public Square Analytics
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
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics and Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics and Public Policy at Eastern Connecticut State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (21)
cox-regression7
logistic-regression6
classification-algorithm6
principal-component-analysis6
linear-regression6
feature-selection5
exponential5
temporal4
r-package4
subset4
cross-validation4
python3
estimate3
r3
machine-learning3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
desmarais-lab/desmarais-lab.github.io
Dec 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 8 years 3 months
desmarais-lab/neha
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 4 years
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