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Will Lowe

Will Lowe

@conjugateprior.org

Statistics. Research methods. That kind of thing.

Senior Research Scientist at Hertie School

Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany🇩🇪
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I work on measurement and causal inference, mostly with applications to political science, policy, and economics at the Data Science Lab of the Hertie School of Governance, a small policy-oriented university in Berlin.

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Career: 11

Senior Research Scientist

Hertie School

Feb 2020 - Present
Causal inferenceStatisticsRConsultingTeachingResearchPython

Senior Research Specialist

Princeton University

Aug 2015 - Jan 2020
Causal inferenceStatisticsRConsultingTeachingResearchSQLData Visualization

Senior Researcher

MZES, University of Mannheim

Apr 2011 - Jul 2015
Causal inferenceStatisticsRTeachingResearchData VisualizationPython

Visiting Fellow

London School of Economics and Political Science

Jun 2012 - May 2015
StatisticsRResearch

Assistant Professor of Research Methods

Maastricht University

Oct 2009 - Apr 2011
StatisticsTeachingResearch

Research Fellow

Methods and Data Institute

Jun 2006 - Aug 2009
Causal inferenceStatisticsRConsultingTeachingResearchData VisualizationPython

Technical Architect

Wordmap

Aug 2003 - Apr 2006
JavaConsultingSoftware Project ManagementSQL

Researcher

WCFIA, Harvard University

Mar 2005 - Sep 2005
JavaResearch

Research Fellow

Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin

Feb 2004 - Feb 2005
StatisticsRResearch

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

Jul 2000 - Jun 2003
StatisticsJavaResearch

Research Associate

Tufts University

Nov 1999 - Jun 2000
Research

Education: 3

University of Edinburgh

PhD, Cognitive Science

Sep 1996 - Jul 2001

'Topographic maps of semantic space' (word embeddings and unsupervised neural networks applied to lexical semantics)

University of Edinburgh

MSc, Cognitive Science and Natural Language Processing

Sep 1995 - Jul 1996

University of Warwick

BA, Philosophy

Sep 1992 - Jul 1995

Year 2 spent at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Projects: 2

ICC Legal Tools Project

legal-tools.org

Text as Data Association

Former Board member

Publications: 1

Google Scholar

tl;dr cites > 6300, h = 29

Awards: 3

Best paper award

German Society for Online Research (GOR)

Jan 2022

David A. Lake best paper award

International Political Economy Society (IPES)

Jan 2018

Winning paper: NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics

American Computational Linguistics Society (ACL)

Jan 2014

Languages: 2

English(Native or bilingual)
German(Limited working)

Skills: 11

Technical

Causal inferenceConsultingJavaPythonRSQLStatistics

Business

Data VisualizationSoftware Project Management

Interpersonal

ResearchTeaching