Santiago Olivella
Associate Professor
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSantiago Olivella is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UNC Chapel Hill with a decade of experience applying Bayesian probabilistic modeling and quantitative methods to electoral politics. He holds a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and has held visiting positions at Harvard and Princeton, reflecting a strong cross-institutional research network. Santiago combines a sustained publication record with multiple open-source software contributions that operationalize complex statistical models for empirical researchers. He teaches and mentors across levels, from undergraduates to graduate students, and has a track record of translating methods into accessible coursework. Based in Chapel Hill, he brings both deep theoretical expertise and practical tooling that make advanced Bayesian approaches usable in real-world political analysis.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Fe InstituteDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science at Washington University in St. LouisUniversidad de los Andes
Spanish, German
Github Skills (32)
r-package10
prediction10
rcppeigen10
rcpparmadillo9
armadillo9
geolocation9
bayesian9
rcpp9
regression8
latent-dirichlet-allocation8
r7
keyword7
stan6
multilevel6
regression-models6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
solivella/NetMix
Mar 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 168 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 3 months
regressionregression-models
solivella/poisbinom
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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