Sharad Goel

Affiliated Scholar

Sharad Goel is an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Department of Management Science & Engineering, in the School of Engineering. He also holds courtesy appointments in computer science, sociology, and law, and is the founder and faculty director of the Stanford Computational Policy Lab.

Professor Goel's primary area of research is computational social science, an emerging discipline at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and the social sciences. He's particularly interested in applying modern computational and statistical techniques to study social and political policies, such as stop-and-frisk, swing voting, filter bubbles, do-not-track, and media bias.

Before joining Stanford, Sharad was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and Yahoo Labs. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University, as well as a MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago.