Rohan Alexander

Assistant Professor

Campus

Cross-Appointments

Faculty of Information

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

Quantitative social science; Bayesian methods; Text as data; Messy data; Multilevel modelling with post-stratification

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in Information and Statistical Sciences (joint).

My academic research answers questions in social sciences, such as: are our politicians actually representing us, do elections matter, and how can we make political polling better. To do this I build, clean, maintain, and share datasets in a reproducible way, and then use quantitative methods, such astext analysis, machine learning, and Bayesian hierarchical models, to analyse them.

Education

PhD, Australian National University.

Administrative Service

Assistant Director, CANSSI Ontario