Taylor B. Alarcon is a Ph.D. Student, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow, and Provost Diversity Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Broadly, he uses a range of quantitative and computational methods — including causal inference from observational data, experiments, machine learning for the social sciences, and spatial analysis — to study racial and economic inequality in the United States.
Prior to Columbia, Taylor was an IRT Fellow, a research associate at the Just Data Lab at Princeton University and the Information Sciences Institute at University of Southern California, and a product design leader in the tech industry. He holds a degree in Applied Mathematics and a minor in Philosophy from Brown University.