George Wood

Data Scientist, GeoMatch
Stanford University

Email: georgewood@stanford.edu

About

George is a data scientist at the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford, where he works on the GeoMatch research program. Before joining IPL, George was Moore-Sloan Faculty Fellow in the Center for Data Science at New York University and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and Northwestern University. His background lies in evaluating the causal effects of policy interventions, particularly in settings where it is difficult to perform randomized experiments. He previously worked on interventions to reduce gun violence, police misconduct, and discrimination in the criminal legal system.

George holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.