Ian Kennedy
Assistant Professor at Rice University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIan Kennedy is an Assistant Professor and computational social scientist based in New York who blends advanced Python and R programming with statistical rigor to study how new data and methods illuminate the reproduction of social inequality. With eight years of experience spanning doctoral work at the University of Washington, postdoctoral research at Rice, and current faculty appointment at UIC, he brings both deep quantitative skills and practical backend expertise (SQL, data visualization, web services) to social-science questions. His background in international education and curriculum leadership informs a communicative, pedagogy-minded approach to research and mentoring. Known for turning novel data sources into reproducible analyses, he prioritizes transparent workflows and methodological innovation that make complex social patterns accessible to scholars and policymakers.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology at University of WashingtonMaster of Arts (M.A.), Humanities and Social Thought, Master of Arts (M.A.), Humanities and Social Thought at New York UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History at Earlham College
Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
soc7
rating4
twitter3
rshiny3
twitter-api3
r-package2
python2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ikennedy240/Data-and-Society-Lab
May 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
ikennedy240/TweetRater
Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
an rShiny app for rating tweets
Contributions:8 PRs, 53 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 4 months
twitter-botpythonratingrshinytwitter-api
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