Taran Samarth
PhD Candidate
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaran Samarth is a PhD candidate in political science with 11 years of research experience at the intersection of the carceral state, local politics, and organizing. He has combined quantitative rigor—drawing on a mathematics/statistics background and social network analysis work at Penn State’s Center for Social Data Analytics—with qualitative inquiry into judicial politics and the philosophy of human rights. At Penn State he supported national polling projects and interdisciplinary grants on topics as diverse as breathing politics and human rights, and he now advances governance reform through grassroots organizing with Penn State Forward. A Yale PhD student with deep roots in State College, he brings both academic depth and on-the-ground campaign experience to work that bridges scholarship and civic change. Notably, his profile reflects a rare blend of formal quantitative training and sustained engagement in university governance and local electoral strategy.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Sociology, Political Science, and Philosophy, and B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics, B.A., Sociology, Political Science, and Philosophy, and B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics at Penn State UniversityPhD, Political Science, PhD, Political Science at Yale University
French, English
Github Skills (7)
calculator4
typescript1
rails1
javascript1
sinatra1
ruby-on-rails1
ruby1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
taransamarth/fifty-states
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
Redistricting analysis for all 50 U.S. states
Contributions:35 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
redistricting
ssdcalcs/supersnowdaycalculator
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
calculator
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