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Stanford, CA, United States
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Full Time
The Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab) at Stanford University is hiring full-time pre-doctoral Research Fellows to join our research team. This is a minimum one-year position, with the option of renewal based on performance and funding. This position is a great next step for those considering graduate school, law school, and/or business school in the future.
Prior Research Fellows have been accepted by PhD programs in computer science, economics, and political science and JD programs at top schools (e.g., Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale). In recent years, fellows have been coauthors on RegLab publications for PNAS, JAMA Health Forum, Nature Sustainability, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the American Law and Economics Review, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, ACM FAccT, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and the Stanford Law Review.
Stanford RegLab builds the evidence base and technology for effective government. Our interdisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, social scientists, and legal experts partners with agencies at every level—from federal departments to states, counties, and cities—bringing frontier AI, machine learning, and causal inference to the public sector. RegLab’s work has prompted an overhaul of tax auditing, mapped racial covenants across millions of records, and enabled streamlining of statutes and regulations.
As a member of our research team, you will work closely with the Faculty Director, Research Director/Manager, data scientists, and teams of fellows and students to drive forward a diverse research program focused on machine learning and policy evaluation. The following tasks are designed to culminate in co-authorship on research papers:
Plan and perform research tasks requiring initiative and judgment: conceptualize suitable empirical methodologies and models, Collect, manage, and structure quantitative datasets, Conduct statistical analyses of complex datasets and interpret results, Design and implement state-of-the-art machine learning models, algorithms, and statistical models, Participate in literature searches, report writing and manuscript preparation
Present research findings to supervisor.
Ensure compliance with research protocols.
You may be asked to orient and train new staff or students.
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