Robert Kubinec
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Kubinec is an Assistant Professor of Political Science with a decade of experience applying novel data-science and causal-inference methods to political economy questions—especially corruption, business politics, entrepreneurship, and development in North Africa and the Middle East. He blends rigorous academic research (PhD from UVA, postdoc at Princeton) with hands-on consulting for researchers, NGOs, and companies to design innovative online studies and tackle complex computational problems. His work emphasizes measurement, interpretability, and Bayesian analysis, bringing advanced tools from biomedical and social sciences to thorny field settings. Before academia he gained practical analytic and diplomatic experience as a data-mining specialist at IBM and a Foreign Service Officer, a background that informs his pragmatic approach to research design. Based in Columbia, SC, he is known for creating reproducible methods that make messy development-era data more usable and more trustworthy.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., M.A. at The George Washington UniversityB.A., B.A. at Wheaton CollegeWarwick Senior High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (92)
shiny-apps10
data-repository10
quarto10
stan10
r-package10
bayesian10
brms10
r9
shiny9
imputation9
eigen9
boost9
autocorrelation9
bayesian-data-analysis9
bayesian-inference9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saudiwin/saudiwin.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jun 2026
Contributions:419 pushes, 18 branches, 3 comments in 9 years 9 months
saudiwin/panelsim
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
Simulation and power analysis of panel/hierarchical data that allows for independently generating effects by cross-section (between-subject) and case (within-subject), including auto-correlation in either dimension.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 3 years 3 months
autocorrelationhierarchical-datasimulation
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