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Shiro Kuriwaki is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Resident Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS). His research focuses on American politics, particularly how individual preferences aggregate into electoral and legislative outcomes. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2021) and a B.A. from Princeton University (2014). His work has been published in top journals like Nature, American Political Science Review, and Science Advances.
Research interests include electoral behavior, public opinion measurement, legislative representation, and statistical methods for improving data accuracy. Key projects involve analyzing cast vote records to study voting patterns and developing tools for redistricting analysis (e.g., the 50stateSimulations project). He also investigates the impact of privacy-preserving techniques on census data utility.
Teaching includes courses on the U.S. Congress, quantitative research design, and comparative elections. He received the 2025 Poorvu Award for innovative teaching and has advised students on topics ranging from congressional accountability to racial polarization in voting.
Major grants include Yale’s Democratic Innovations Research Grant (2024) and the MIT Election Data Science Lab’s New Initiatives Grant (2018). He co-authored the Cast Vote Records database and contributed to the Cumulative CCES Common Content dataset widely used in political science research.
