Address

1737 Cambridge Street
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Contact Information

Phone: 617-384-6778
Email: Imai at Harvard dot Edu
URL: https://imai.fas.harvard.edu

Kosuke Imai (pronounced Ko.ska) is Professor in the Department of Government and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his primary office is located. Before moving to Harvard in 2018, Imai taught at Princeton University for 15 years where he was the founding director of the Program in Statistics and Machine Learning. Imai specializes in the development of statistical methods and machine learning algorithms and their applications to social science research. His areas of expertise include causal inference, computational social science, program evaluation, and survey methodology. Imai leads the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology Project (ALARM) and is the author of Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2017). Outside of Harvard, Imai served as the President of the Society for Political Methodology from 2017 to 2019. He is also Professor of Visiting Status in the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at The University of Tokyo.