Summary
Micah 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 University
Postdoc, Social Science, Postdoc, Social Science at Harvard University
Ph.D., Social Science, Ph.D., Social Science at California Institute of Technology