Melody Huang

Melody Huang joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Political Science with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science. Her research sits at the intersection of statistics and political science and focuses on developing robust statistical methods to credibly estimate causal effects under real-world complications. Her dissertation was awarded the John T. Williams Prize by the Society for Political Methodology in 2023. She received her PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023, and was a Wojcicki-Troper Data Science Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard from 2023-2024.