I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department at Harvard. My research interests include civil war, state-building, democratization, climate change, and machine learning. My regional interests are in the Horn of Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa region. I use non-parametric machine learning techniques such as Bayesian Additive Regression Trees and Artificial Neural Networks in addition to traditional quantitative methods.
Contact
dbaissa@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Comparative Politics | International Relations | Methods and Formal Theory
Academic Interests
Climate Change | Data Science and Political Methodology | Democracy | Foreign Policy | Political Economy & Development | Political Geography | Security Studies | Social Policy & the Welfare State | State-Society Relations
Research Methods
Experiments | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Africa | Middle East and North Africa