Sharad Goel
Professor Of Public Policy at Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSharad Goel is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and founder of the Computational Policy Lab, bringing 11 years of professional experience bridging rigorous computational methods and public policy. Trained in mathematics and applied mathematics (BS University of Chicago; MS/PhD in Computer Science/Applied Math from Cornell), he has held research and academic roles at Stanford, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Labs, and USC, combining industry-scale data science with scholarly impact. His work centers on leveraging computational techniques to inform policy decisions, often translating complex models into actionable insights for governments and institutions. Notably, his career trajectory reflects a rare blend of high-impact private-sector research and top-tier academic leadership, emphasizing reproducible, policy-relevant computation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at West High SchoolMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (19)
bayesian7
bayesian-data-analysis7
python7
stan7
bayesian-inference5
testing5
network-analysis5
bayesian-statistics5
bayesian-methods4
mcmc3
computer-vision3
surveillance3
science3
pandas2
machine-learning2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stanford-policylab/law-order-algo-2021
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
5harad/threshold-test
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Testing for racial discrimination in police searches of motor vehicles
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 7 months
testing
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