Taylor B. Alarcon

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.

At Columbia, he is affiliated with the Data Science Institute Computational Social Science Working Group, the Data & Racial Inequality Project, the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab, the New York City Reducing Inequality Network, and the OADI Research Collective on Policing, Surveillance, and Resistance.

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.

BA in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2017