Kosuke Imai

Kosuke Imai (pronounced Ksk) is a professor in the Department of Government and in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Previously he was a professor at Princeton University for 15 years, and an executive committee member of the Committee for Statistical Studies and the Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science (Q-APS) at Princeton University. In addition, Imai was the founding director of the undergraduate certificate program in Statistics and Machine Learning. He specializes in the development of statistical methods and their applications to social science research. Outside of Harvard, Imai is currently serving as the Vice President and President-elect of the Society for Political Methodology. He is also Professor of Visiting Status in the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at The University of Tokyo. Visit https://imai.fas.harvard.edu/ for more information about Kosuke Imai.

Lori D. Bougher

Lori D. Bougher, co-author of Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction in Stata, is a senior research specialist at the Data-Driven Social Science Initiative at Princeton University. She was previously the data and statistical analyst at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton, where she also held the positions of associate research scholar and postdoctoral research associate with the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Bougher holds a PhD in social and developmental psychology from the University of Cambridge and a dual Master’s of Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Columbia University, specializing in applied economics and advance policy analysis.