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Jeff Jacobs (He/him)

Assistant Professor

Data Science and Public Policy

Georgetown University

About

Welcome! I teach classes in the Data Science and Analytics program and McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

I received my PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2022, with a dissertation on quantitative approaches to studying the history of political thought. During the PhD I worked as an Adjunct Instructor in NYU's Center for Data Science and Research Assistant in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

My research in political science mainly pertains to the history of political thought and what I call "computational political theory" (Natural Language Processing + Network Analysis + Political Theory)

My research in economics focuses on empirical, text-analytic studies of monopsony and collective bargaining in modern and historical labor markets.

Publications

Unsupervised Extraction of Workplace Rights and Duties from Collective Bargaining Agreements

Elliott Ash, Jeff Jacobs, Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu, and Dominik Stammbach

Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining -- International Workshop on Mining and Learning in the Legal Domain (ICDM-MLLD). 2020.

Monopsony in Online Labor Markets

Arindrajit Dube, Jeff Jacobs, Suresh Naidu, and Siddharth Suri

American Economic Review: Insights, (2)1: 33-46. 2020.

How to Do Things with Translations: Cross-Lingual Phrase Embeddings for Translation Analysis

Jeff Jacobs

Ninth Annual Conference on New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA). 2018.

Information Cartography: Creating Zoomable, Large-Scale Maps of Information

Dafna Shahaf, Jaewon Yang, Caroline Suen, Jeff Jacobs, Heidi Wang, and Jure Leskovec

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 1097-1105. 2013.

Metaheuristic Approaches to Resource Scheduling in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Cristy Duan, Honghao Gao, Jeff Jacobs, and Weixiang Wu

Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). 2012.

Evolving Musical Counterpoint: The Chronopoint Genetic Algorithm

Jeff Jacobs and James Reggia

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 11-16. 2011.

Education

Columbia University

  • PhD in Political Science, Sep 2022
  • MPhil in Political Science, May 2018
  • MA in Political Science, May 2016

Stanford University

  • MS in Computer Science, May 2014

University of Maryland

  • BS in Computer Science, BS in Mathematics, BA in Economics, May 2012

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