Hello 👋. My name is Bennett Bernstein, I'm an applied political data scientist with experience at the intersection of civic engagement and contemporary machine learning. Today, I'm employed as a Senior Data Scientist at BlueLabs Analytics, where I work to promote Democratic campaigns and advance progressive causes. I'm also a master's student in the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at Columbia University.

My prior professional experience includes stints as:

• Lead Data Scientist on the Cory 2020 presidential campaign, where I developed novel targeting and forecasting deliverables informing strategic resource allocation advancing the cadidacy of Senator Booker in the Democratic presidential primary
• Product Data Lead at civic tech startup Hustle, where I prototyped NLP-driven product suggestion features embeded within the business' core peer-to-peer organizing platform
• Deputy State Data & Analytics Director on the Hillary for America presidential campaign in Nevada, where I build decision tools leveraged by state leadership to evaluate program execution and targeting strategies in the 2016 general election

My academic research interests include Bayesian techniques for survey-based inference and electoral forecasting, statistical methods for mediating machine bias, and deep learning for tweet-scale natural language processing problems.

Other langagues, platforms and libraries: Stan probabalistic programming language