Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology
Postdoctoral Fellows
Specializations
Machine Learning, Social Sciences, Statistics
Postdoctoral Fellows
Specializations
Machine Learning, Social Sciences, Statistics
Biography
Department of Anthropology
UW Mentors
Ben Marwick, Anthropology
Jeff Arnold, Political Science
Education History
Ph.D. Political Science, Pennsylvania State University (2017)
M.A. Political Science, University of Georgia (2013)
B.A. Political Science/Philosophy, Georgia Southern University (2010)
Research Goals
Zach is a political methodologist interested in interpretable machine learning, its application to the study of political violence, and social science generally. He is also interested in meta-scientific issues related to the analysis of social data. He has published applications of these methods and developed software which implements them. He has also published work showing the advantages of this approach.
Zach is interested in further development of these methods and their application to new areas and sources of data. He is also interested in developing systems which make their use more reliable, transparent, and easy to use.