Aaron R. Kaufman
Associate Professor of Political Science · NYU Abu Dhabi
I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. I am Associate Program Head (DGS) for the Masters in Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI (MIDSAI), and Co-PI for the Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI (CIDSAI). I also hold affiliations with the Department of Politics and the Center for Data Science at New York University, the Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP), and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University.
My research interests leverage cutting-edge methods in computer science and causal inference to solve measurement problems in political science. I am also a scuba diver, naturalist, puzzle hunter, and installation artist.
Recent
- Sep 2026 Intra-Partisan Gerrymandering (with Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Christopher Kenny) — forthcoming at the Michigan Law Review
- Sep 2026 Congressional Oratory Research Archive (CORA) — forthcoming at Scientific Data
- Aug 2026 Inducing Emotions in Laboratory Experiments with Virtual Reality — R&R at PLOS ONE
- Jul 2026 Awarded a $585,000 ADIA Lab Research Grant (with Jean Imbs, Robert Engle, Richard Berner, and Viral Acharya) to study how AI will shape the global economy and finance
- Jul 2026 Discussant at PolMeth 2026 for papers by Libby Jenke & Gary King and by Erin Hartman — slides
- Jun 2026 Invited talks at Waseda University and University of Tokyo