George Wood

I am a sociologist and computational social scientist studying inequality and public policy. I use causal inference and computational methods, including machine learning, to evaluate policy interventions and investigate the mechanisms that sustain social inequality. My work has been published in 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.