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4890
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2319

Overview

Sharad Goel is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a publication record primarily in the social sciences. Their research interests focus on political science and international relations, artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, as well as statistics and probability.

Their work covers a range of topics including electoral systems and political participation, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, game theory and voting systems, crime patterns and interventions, ethics and social impacts of AI, criminal justice and corrections analysis, and advanced causal inference techniques.

Sharad Goel has published extensively in several frequent venues such as Harvard Dataverse, arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

Frequent collaborators in Sharad Goel's research include Marc Meredith, David Rothschild, Michael Morse, Houshmand Shirani-Mehr, and Julian Nyarko.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • "Racial disparities in automated speech recognition" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Who Does What on the Web: A Large-Scale Study of Browsing Behavior" (2021) published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "The limits of human predictions of recidivism" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models" (2023) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States" (2020) published in Nature Human Behaviour

Best Publications

  • Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption

    Seth Flaxman;Sharad Goel;Justin M. Rao

  • Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness

    Sam Corbett-Davies;Emma Pierson;Avi Feller;Sharad Goel

  • Predicting consumer behavior with Web search

    Sharad Goel;Jake M. Hofman;Sébastien Lahaie;David M. Pennock

  • The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion

    Sharad Goel;Ashton Anderson;Jake M. Hofman;Duncan J. Watts

  • The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness: A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning.

    Sam Corbett-Davies;Sharad Goel

  • Racial Disparities in Automated Speech Recognition

    Allison Koenecke;Andrew Nam;Emily Lake;Joe Nudell

  • A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States.

    Emma Pierson;Camelia Simoiu;Jan Overgoor;Sam Corbett-Davies

  • The structure of online diffusion networks

    Sharad Goel;Duncan J. Watts;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • Forecasting elections with non-representative polls

    Wei Wang;David Rothschild;Sharad Goel;Andrew Gelman

  • Assessing respondent-driven sampling

    Sharad Goel;Matthew J. Salganik

  • Fair and Balanced? Quantifying Media Bias through Crowdsourced Content Analysis

    Ceren Budak;Sharad Goel;Justin M. Rao

  • Precinct or prejudice? Understanding racial disparities in New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy

    Sharad Goel;Justin M. Rao;Ravi Shroff

  • Real and Perceived Attitude Agreement in Social Networks

    Sharad Goel;Winter Mason;Duncan J. Watts

  • Anatomy of the long tail: ordinary people with extraordinary tastes

    Sharad Goel;Andrei Broder;Evgeniy Gabrilovich;Bo Pang

  • The Problem of Infra-marginality in Outcome Tests for Discrimination

    Camelia Simoiu;Sam Corbett-Davies;Sharad Goel

  • Who Does What on the Web: A Large-Scale Study of Browsing Behavior

    Sharad Goel;Jake M. Hofman;M. Irmak Sirer

  • Predicting Individual Behavior with Social Networks

    Sharad Goel;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • De-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks

    Jessica Su;Ansh Shukla;Sharad Goel;Arvind Narayanan

  • Partisan selective exposure in online news consumption: evidence from the 2016 presidential campaign

    Erik Peterson;Sharad Goel;Shanto Iyengar

  • The Mythical Swing Voter

    Andrew Gelman;Sharad Goel;Douglas Rivers;David Rothschild

Frequent Co-Authors

Duncan J. Watts
Duncan J. Watts University of Pennsylvania
Daniel G. Goldstein
Daniel G. Goldstein Microsoft (United States)
Jennifer L. Skeem
Jennifer L. Skeem University of California, Berkeley
Susan Holmes
Susan Holmes Stanford University
Simon D. W. Frost
Simon D. W. Frost Microsoft (United States)

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