Soubhik Barari
Senior Research Methodologist (Data Scientist)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSoubhik Barari is a senior research methodologist and quantitative social scientist with 11 years of experience applying statistical and computational methods to public policy, political analytics, and health communication. He combines a Ph.D. in Political Science and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard with hands-on work at NORC, SurveyMonkey, Microsoft Research, MIT, and Harvard IQSS to build survey weights, evaluate AI/ML, and model heterogeneous treatment effects. At NORC he leads projects on AI adoption, social media, higher education, and public affairs, translating complex methodology into actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners. He also teaches data science for political analytics at Columbia, bringing classroom-tested methods back into applied research. A detail that sets him apart is his track record of shipping production-ready survey weighting and likely-voter models for major pre-election polling efforts, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and operational delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Political Science, Ph.D. Political Science at Harvard UniversityB.S. Mathematics & Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science at Tufts University
Github Skills (29)
surveymonkey10
r-package10
data-science6
missing-data4
speech4
machine-learning4
python4
census4
rcpp4
rcppeigen4
tidymodels3
tidy3
natural-language-processing3
tensorflow3
speech-recognition3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
soubhikbarari/svmkR
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
R package for "full-stack" survey research with SurveyMonkey.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 years 8 months
crosstabsdata-sciencer-packagesurvey-datasurvey-weighting
soubhikbarari/soubhikbarari.github.io
Jan 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:205 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
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