Professor, University of Houston
I am the Andrei Baronev and Ratmir Timashev Chair of Data Analytics and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University, where I am the director of the Machine-Assisted Human Decision-making (MAHD) Lab and part of the leadership team for the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA). I am also the head of the Second Raven project on AI-assisted public opinion polling (check out our free Substack) and an editor of Research & Politics.
My 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.
My publications have appeared in outlets like Science, The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and International Studies Quarterly among others. My book, Introduction to R for Social Scientists: A Tidy Programming Approach, based on my ICPSR workshop, introduces students to statistical modeling and programming in R using the Tidyverse set of tools. My work has generated over 7,500 citations (i10-index of 45 over the past 5 years).
I have received several awards for my research, including the Heinz I. Eulau Award for best paper published in the American Political Science Review and the University of Houston Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. I was also awarded the Ross M. Lence Teaching Excellence Award for the social sciences at the University of Houston.
I have also received support for my research from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the Templeton Foundation, the Kettering Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Democracy Fund, among others.
If you would like to contact me, my email is kennedy.310(at)osu.edu. You can also visit my Google Scholar page to view more of my research.
