Micah Altman
Social And Information Scientist
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMicah Altman is a social and information scientist at MIT with over a decade of experience bridging computational social science, information infrastructure, and public policy. He has led research programs and libraries at MIT and Harvard, directed CREOS and MIT Libraries research, and advised policymakers on elections, redistricting, and data privacy as a Brookings nonresident fellow. Micah combines quantitative observational research, statistical method development, and open-source software engineering—authoring seven open-source packages and more than a hundred scholarly works—to improve scholarly communication, digital preservation, and reproducible research. His work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and recognized with awards like the Pizzigati Prize and the Brown Democracy Award, reflecting impact beyond academia. Known for operationalizing research at scale, he pairs deep technical training (PhD Caltech, BA Brown) with hands-on stewardship of research infrastructures and archives.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Brown UniversityPostdoc, Social Science, Postdoc, Social Science at Harvard UniversityPh.D., Social Science, Ph.D., Social Science at California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
agent-based-modeling7
simulation6
simulation-modeling6
modeling6
citation2
r-package2
oai-pmh2
crosstalk1
data-access1
oai1
r1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MIT-Informatics/mex-open-map
Mar 2015 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 122 pushes in 8 years 6 months
maltman/website
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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