Santiago Olivella
Chair, Division Of Data Science And Society, School Of Data And Information Sciences
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSantiago Olivella is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UNC Chapel Hill with a decade of experience applying Bayesian probabilistic modeling and quantitative methods to electoral politics. He holds a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and has held visiting positions at Harvard and Princeton, reflecting a strong cross-institutional research network. Santiago combines a sustained publication record with multiple open-source software contributions that operationalize complex statistical models for empirical researchers. He teaches and mentors across levels, from undergraduates to graduate students, and has a track record of translating methods into accessible coursework. Based in Chapel Hill, he brings both deep theoretical expertise and practical tooling that make advanced Bayesian approaches usable in real-world political analysis.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Fe InstituteDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Political Science at Washington University in St. LouisUniversidad de los Andes
Spanish, German
Github Skills (17)
bayesian10
geolocation10
rcpparmadillo9
armadillo9
r-package9
regression-models9
rcppeigen9
rcpp9
r8
latent-dirichlet-allocation7
topic-models7
natural-language-processing6
linear-algebra4
stan4
statistical-models3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
solivella/NetMix
Mar 2018 - Jun 2022
NetMix: Mixed-membership network regression models
Contributions:3 releases, 168 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 3 months
regression-models
solivella/keyATM
Aug 2020 - Feb 2023
An R package for Keyword Assisted Topic Models
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
nlpr-packagetopic-modelslatent-dirichlet-allocationassisted
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