I am an assistant research scientist at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and a research fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, I worked as a senior data scientist at Code for America, a civic tech nonprofit organization, where I collaborated with the U.S. federal, state, and local governments to improve access to safety net programs. I completed my PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. My research has been published in top outlets such as Nature Human Behaviour and received multiple awards from the American Political Science Association.
I use data science methods to study (1) policy implementation (state capacity) in social and tech policy and (2) civic engagement (civic capacity) in offline and online spaces.
In addition to my substantive interests, through my work on computational social science and data science pedagogy, I am actively engaged in bridging social sciences and data science and making computational methods accessible.
I am on the job market (political science/public policy/data science) in the 2024-2025 academic year.
You can reach me at jkim638@jhu.edu.
Here is a link to my CV.