Michael Gill, PhD.
Data Science Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow.
Center for Data Science, NYU.

Education

• PhD., M.A., Government
• Dissertation: "Empirical Essays on Secrecy and Security in the United States"
• Committee: Gary King (Chair), Jeffry Frieden, Kenneth Shepsle, Dustin Tingley

• B.A., with Departmental Honors, magna cum laude, Political Science
• Honors Advisor: Macartan Humphreys

• High School Diploma, with Honors

Research Papers

• Uncertainty-Aware Conditional Word Embedding using Bayes-by-Backprop (with K. Cho, R. Han, and A. Spirling)
• Firm and Product Embeddings (with C. Herwana, L. Ren, and J. Toy)
• Estimating the Severity of the WikiLeaks U.S. Diplomatic Cables Disclosure (with A. Spirling)
  
• Economic Benefits of Conflict? Estimating Defense Firm Responses to Major Events in International Security
• Understanding Private Information in International Relations via Diplomatic Communications (with A. Spirling)
• Bayesian Instrumental Variables with Relaxations of the Exclusion Restriction (with A. Sabagghi, B. Schneer)
• How Federal Reserve Discussions Respond to Increased Transparency (with M. Egesdal, M. Rotemberg)
• Estimating Poverty Rates in Target Populations: An Assessment of the Simple Poverty Scorecard and Alternative Approaches (with A. Diamond, M. Rebolledo, E. Skoufias, K. Vinha, Y. Xu)
• How Judicial Identity Changes the Text of Appellate Court Rulings (with A. Hall)

Ongoing Projects

• Sample weighting for bias adjustment in word embeddings
• Can Radio Programs Build Peace? An Experimental Study from Afghanistan (with K. Sharma)

Fellowships, Grants, Awards

• Research Fellow, The Governance Lab, New York, NY USA2016—2017
• Research Fellow, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY USA2016—2017
• "Can Radio Programs Build Peace?", United States Institute for Peace, Washington, DC USA2016
• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA2015
• Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University 2012
• Presidential Instructional Technology Fellow (PITF), Harvard University2011—2013
• GSAS Prize Fellowship, Harvard University2010—2015
• Deparment Honors, Political Science, Columbia University2010

Teaching

• DS-GA 3001: Causal Inference (NYU)*2018
• DS-GA 1006: Data Science Capstone (with R. Bonneau, C. Silva, NYU)*2017
• Gov 1729: Formal Models in International Relations (M. Bas, Harvard)2014
• Gov 61: Research Practice in Quantitative Methods (A. Spirling, A . Glynn, Harvard)2013—2014
• Empirical & Mathematical Reasoning 13: Analyzing Politics (K. Shepsle, Harvard)2012
• Gov 50: Introduction to Political Science Research Methods (M. Bas, A. Spirling, Harvard)2011—2013
• *Lead instructor

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