Professor in Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
David Lazer is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, and Co–Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His research focuses on the nexus of social networks, computational social science, and collaborative intelligence. He is the founder of the citizen science website "Volunteer Science." His research has been published in such journals as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the American Political Science Review, and the Administrative Science Quarterly, and has received extensive coverage in the media, including the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, and CBS Evening News.