Doug Rivers
Chairman at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Rivers is a distinguished political scientist and entrepreneurial leader based in Palo Alto, combining over three decades in academia with serial startup success. As a Stanford professor, Senior Fellow at Hoover, and Chief Scientist and Director at YouGov, he blends rigorous social science with practical expertise in survey research and data-driven decision making. He co-founded multiple influential firms—Knowledge Networks, Polimetrix, Crunch.io—and served as CEO of YouGov’s U.S. unit, translating research methods into commercially scalable products. His board roles and long-form academic career reflect a rare mix of scholarly influence and product-focused leadership, often pioneering ways to measure public opinion using innovative sampling and online platforms. Notably, he continues to bridge theory and practice by leading technical teams that operationalize complex survey science at scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Government, Ph.D., Government at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (17)
crunch8
r-package7
scripting4
r4
pythonic4
api4
package4
python4
data-cleaning4
github3
react3
client-library1
geometry1
record-linkage1
python-client1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rdrivers/multirake
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
rdrivers/mrp-aapor
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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