Sumer Vaid
Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard Business School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSumer Vaid is a computational media psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Business School who leverages smartphones and ubiquitous computing to study and intervene on psychological processes using digital media. With a PhD from Stanford and dual degrees from the University of Chicago, he combines rigorous experimental design, causal inference, and machine learning to push methodological boundaries in psychological science. He has a track record of funding and fellowships across computational social science and diversity-oriented research, and is actively committed to recruiting participants from the Global South to diversify samples. Beyond academia, he has taught an original Stanford course on digital media personalization and has practical experience building research infrastructure and technical support from his earlier roles. This blend of deep theory, computational fluency, and a commitment to equitable research participation makes his work both methodologically innovative and socially consequential.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccelaureate Diploma, Natural Sciences, International Baccelaureate Diploma, Natural Sciences at Ecole Mondiale World SchoolMaster of Arts (M.A.), Social Sciences (concentration in Psychology); Certificate in Computational Social Sciences, Master of Arts (M.A.), Social Sciences (concentration in Psychology); Certificate in Computational Social Sciences at University of ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Media Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Media Psychology at Stanford University
English, Hindi, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
threshold6
r6
modeling2
machine-learning2
spring1
Github contributions (5)
sumervaid/persp-analysis
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:34 pushes in 2 months
computational-analysismacscomputational
sumervaid/sumervaid.github.io
Oct 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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