David Lazer

David Lazer is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, and faculty fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, and elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, and has published influential work on computational social science, misinformation, democratic deliberation, and algorithmic auditing, which has received extensive coverage in the media, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, NPR, and the Washington Post. He is a co-leader of the CHIP50 Project, a regular 50 state survey that evaluates the civic health of the United States, and co-director of the Internet Democracy Initiative at Northeastern.