Associate Professor, University of Houston
I am a professor in the department of political science at the University of Houston (UH), director of the Machine-Assisted Human Decision-making (MAHD) Lab (UH), principal investigator of the NSF-funded Community Responsive Algorithms for Social Accountability (CRASA) project, 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. My research spans a number of areas in comparative politics, international relations and American politics, including: democratization, computational social science, deliberation, energy and environment, post-Communist politics, and prediction models. My publications have appeared in outlets like Science, The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, and International Studies Quarterly among others. My work has generated almost 5,000 citations (i10-index of 33 over the past 5 years). If you would like to contact me, my email is rkennedy(at)uh.edu. You can also visit my Google Scholar page to view more of my research.
