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Kirk Bansak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as Inaugural Faculty Director of the Yardi Scholarship and is affiliated with the Immigration Policy Lab (Stanford/ETH Zurich) and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI).
Research Interests:
- Causal inference and experimental design
- Refugee resettlement and asylum politics
- Algorithmic decision-making and public policy
- Public opinion and political behavior
Scientific Awards:
- Gosnell Prize for Political Methodology (2021)
- Facebook Ph.D. Fellowship in Computational Social Science (2018)
- Edmund A. Gullion Prize (Fletcher School, 2013)
Teaching: Courses on machine learning for social scientists, algorithms and ethics, and causal inference. Co-designer of the flagship Building Bridges between Democracy and Technology course.
Article Trends: His recent work spans conjoint experimental methodology (Political Analysis), algorithmic governance (PNAS Nexus), dynamic refugee matching systems (Operations Research), and cross-disciplinary applications at the intersection of political science, statistics, and AI ethics.
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