Lazer Lab

People

David Lazer
Distinguished professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University
Director

Northeastern University

Michael Hoefling
Senior Project Manager
Project Manager

Bining "Vicky" Zhao
Project Manager
Project Manager

Senior Research Scientists

Jason Radford
Principal Research Scientist
Senior Research Scientist

Research Associates

Pranav Goel Post Doctoral Research Fellow	Luke Horgan B.S. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering Research Programmer	Aswath Senthil Kumar Research Co-op Student Research Assistant	Stefan McCabe Ph. D. Student Post Doctoral Research Fellow	Matthew Simonson Postdoctoral Researcher - Penn Identity and Conflict Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and Affiliated Research Fellow at the Lazer Lab Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Kai-Cheng Yang Post Doctoral Research Fellow

PhD Students

Oliver Allen	Hanyu Chwe Ph. D. Student	Zhen Guo Ph. D. Student	Burak Özturan https://burakozturan.github.io/	Hong Qu Ph. D. Student
Alexi Quintana Mathé Ph. D. Student	Alyssa Smith http://lentil-soup.github.io	Ata A. Uslu Ph. D. Student	Allison Wan

Undergraduates

Samantha Cadenasso
Undergraduate Research Co-op

Lab Alumni

Stefano Balietti Fellow at the Center for European Social Science Research at Mannheim University and a postdoc at the Alfred-Weber Institute of Economics at Heidelberg University Personal Webpage	Maria C. Binz-Scharf Associate Professor of Management The City College of New York, Department of Economics & Business, Personal Web Page	Jeffrey Boase Associate Professor at the Inst. of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at Univ. of Toronto, Mississauga Associate Professor	Dan Calacci PhD student in the Human Dynamics Group Personal Webpage	Thalita Coleman Engagement Manager at Ace3 Group	Kenneth Cukier American Journalist and Author of Books on Technology & Society The Economist
Navid Dianati Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ IQSS, Harvard University	Samuel Fraiberger Data Scientist at the World Bank and Visiting Scholar at NYU Computer Science Department	Lisa Friedland Associate Research Scientist, MOBS Lab - Network Science Institute, Northeastern University Postdoctoral Researcher	Allan Friedman Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the U. S. Dept. of Commerce Governance Studies, The Brookings Institute, Center for Technology Innovation, The Brookings Institute	Sasha Goodman Vegan Investor, KindEarth.Tech (KET) Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, CCS, Northeastern University	Jonathan Green Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science at Duke University http://jgreen4919.github.io
Jason Greenberg Assistant Professor of Management at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU & Visiting Assistant Professor at Univ. of Pennsylvania New York University (NYU), Leonard N. Stern School of Business	Nir Grinberg Assistant Professor - Ben Gurion University of the Negev	Ancsa Aniko Hannak Assistant Professor - Department of Informatics, University of Zurich Ph.D. in Computer Science	Adam Henry Professor - School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy	Matthew Hindman Associate Professor The George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs	William Hobbs Assistant Professor - Cornell University, Dept of Human Development and Dept of Government Webpage
Philipp Hunziker Data Scientist at Google, Zurich - Switzerland	Steven J. Jackson Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Science & Dept of Science & Technology Studies - Cornell University University of Michigan, Michigan Interactive and Social Computing	Kenny Joseph Assistant Professor - Computer Science and Engineering Department, University at Buffalo	Ceyhun Karbeyaz Software Developer at SVH Software Inc.	Brian Keegan Research Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Science - Harvard University	Ryan P. Kennedy Associate Professor - Political Science, University of Houston University of Houston, Department of Political Science
Sune Lehmann Professor of Networks and Complexity Science at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark. I’m also a Professor of Social Data Science at the Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen. DTU Informatics, Technical University of Denmark	Yu-Ru Lin Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences	Kristin Lunz Trujillo https://krissylunz.wixsite.com/main	Drew Margolin Assistant Professor - Cornell Department of Communication Cornell University	Mauro Martino Founder and Director of the Visual Artificial Intelligence Lab at IBM Research, and Professor of Practice at Northeastern University. IBM, Center for Innovation in Visual Analytics (CIVA)	Carolina Mattsson Postdoctoral Reseacher in Network Science at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science - Leiden University Postdoctoral Researcher in Network Science
Jeanne Mengis Professor in Organizational Communication at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), director of the Institute of Marketing and Communication Management (IMCA), and a Honorary Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, UK. https://search.usi.ch/en/people/a62885165eb5f80ae7059eaefbe010ac/mengis-jeanne	Ines Mergel Full Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Digital Governance Lab	Katherine Ognyanova Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Communications at Rutgers University Personal Webpage	Jukka-Pekka Onnela Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Health Data Science Program. Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics	Skyler Place Chief Behavioral Science Officer at Cogito Corp Cogito	Birgit Rabl Fine Art Consultant, Communications & Fine Arts Professional http://www.ashmolean.org/
Ronald Robertson Ph.D. Student CV	Damian Ruck Chief Researcher, Advai	Alauna Safarpour Political scientist, pollster, and assistant professor at Gettysburg College. https://safarpour.sites.gettysburg.edu/	Alexander Schellong Member of the management board and responsible for the international business of infodas. In addition, he manages the office in Munich. https://www.infodas.de/en/company/management_team/alexander-schellong/	Sebastian Schnorf Senior User Experience UX Researcher & Manager Executive MBA Candidate at IMD Business School. Google. Zürich https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianschnorf/?originalSubdomain=ch	Rezvan Sherkati PhD in Electrical and Computer engineering department at McGill University, Canada.
Jesse Shore Assistant Professor - Dept. of Information Systems at Boston University, Questrom School of Business. Boston University School of Management, Department of Information Systems	Sarah Shugars Faculty Fellow at New York University's Center for Data Science	Briony Swire Thompson Personal Webpage	Oren Tsur Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at Ben Gurion University of th Negev - Israel http://www.ise.bgu.ac.il/OrenTsur	Annie Waldherr Professor of Computational Communication Science at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Science at the University of Vienna.	Stefan Wojcik Principal Data Scientist at National Grid Renewables
Curtis Ziniel Senior Lecturer in Business Liverpool Hope University, Department of Business

Collaborators with the Lab

Yaniv Altshuler Researcher, MIT Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab	Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Director, Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Distinguished University Professor Northeastern University, Center for Complex Network Research	Pablo Barberá Meta, Menlo Park, CA	Nick Beauchamp Assistant Professor of Political Science	Timothy Callaghan Associate Professor, Health Policy & Politics - Boston University	Kevin Esterling Professor of Political Science and Public Policy - UC Riverside UCR Department of Political Science
Shan Jiang PhD Student / Research Assistant - Northeastern University	Waleed Meleis Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Office of the Dean Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering Northeastern University, Electrical & Computer Engineering	William Minozzi Associate Professor, Ohio State University The Ohio State University, Department of Political Science	Matthew Motta Assistant Professor, Public Health Law, Boston University https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-10852592	Matthew Motta	Matthew Motta Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University
Michael Neblo Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University The Ohio State University, Department of Political Science	Alex (Sandy) Pentland Professor, Director of MIT's Human Dynamics Lab and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Human Dynamics Laboratory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab	Brian Rubineau Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Organizational Behaviour Cornell University, ILR School	Derek Ruths Associate Professor of Computer Science, McGill University McGill University, School of Computer Science, Network Dynamics Lab	Alessandro Vespignani Director and Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor Northeastern University, MoBS	Lu Wang Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan
John Wihbey Assistant Professor of Journalism & News Media at Northeastern University, where he teaches in the Media Innovation program and is a faculty member with the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks.