Suresh Naidu

Suresh Naidu is a Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs with a joint appointment in Economics. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, an M.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His primary affiliations include membership in Columbia's Data, Media and Society center and Computational Social Science Committee.

Naidu's research integrates computational linguistics with economic history and political economy. He focuses on analyzing digitized historical documents—such as Congressional records (since 1870) and judicial opinions—using natural language processing to study political discourse, labor economics, and institutional evolution. Key projects include automated classification of slavery-related judicial decisions and detection of political bias in academic literature.

His recent publications (2022-2025) demonstrate concentrated expertise in labor market dynamics, with recurring themes including:

• Monopsony power and wage structures
• Collective bargaining and union impacts
• Intergenerational mobility and inequality
• Historical analysis of labor institutions
• Policy interactions in climate and antitrust domains

Methodologically, he employs large-scale textual analysis, experimental designs, and cross-national comparative frameworks.