Ryan Kennedy
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Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev Endowed Chair in Data Analytics
Professor Kennedy is the Timashev Chair of Data Analytics and a Professor of Political Science. He previously worked in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston (UH), principal investigator for the NSF-funded Community Responsive Algorithms for Social Accountability (CRASA) project, director of the Machine-Assisted Human Decision-making (MAHD) Lab (UH), founding associate director of analytics for the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy, editor of Research & Politics, and a research associate at the Hobby Center for Public Policy.
His research spans a number of areas in comparative politics, international relations and American politics, including: computational social science, technology and public policy, democratization, deliberation, energy and the environment, and prediction models.