Welcome
Sho Miyazaki is a Ph.D. Student in Public Policy (Politics and Institutions track) at Harvard University. Before Harvard, he was a predoctoral research fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Political Economy Group, advised by Andrew B. Hall. He holds an LL.B. from Keio University, where he studied political science (major), Japanese literature and arts (minor), and statistics.
His research focuses on the political economy of voting systems. He is studying both statistical methodology for empirical analysis and game theory for formal theoretical analysis. With experience in working with unstructured data such as geographical shapefiles and blockchain records, he is also interested in developing computational methodologies for social science research. His substantive interests expands to legislative redistricting, proxy voting (liquid democracy), roll-call voting, and rugby football.
Outside Stanford, he is affiliated with the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project, and awarded as Keio University Global Fellow 2023.
Education
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | Cambridge, MA
- Ph.D. Student | August 2025 -
- Public Policy (Politics and Institution Track)
- Stanford Graduate School of Business | Stanford, CA
- Predoctoral Research Fellow | July 2023 - June 2025
- Political Economy Group
- Keio University – Faculty of Law | Tokyo, Japan
- LL.B. in Political Science | April 2019 - March 2023