George Wood

I am a sociologist and computational social scientist. I use statistical methods, causal inference, and machine learning to evaluate policy interventions and investigate the roots of social inequality. Most of my recent work has focused on policing and immigration. My research has been published in top journals, including the Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences and Nature Human Behavior.

I am a data scientist in the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University. Previously, I was Assistant Professor in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester and 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 and my PhD at the University of Oxford.