George Wood

Computational Social Scientist

I am a sociologist and computational social scientist. My research focuses on social inequality and discrimination, particularly in the areas of policing, gun violence, and the criminal legal system. I am interested in applications of causal inference and machine learning in the social sciences.

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester. Previously, I was Moore-Sloan Faculty Fellow in the Center for Data Science at New York University, where I taught Responsible Data Science. I completed my postdoc at Yale and Northwestern under the supervision of Andrew Papachristos and my PhD at the University of Oxford.