Sho Miyazaki

Research Fellow @ Stanford GSB

Welcome

Sho Miyazaki is a Research Fellow (predoctoral) at Stanford Graduate School of Business, mentored by Prof. Andrew Hall in Political Economics Group.

He holds LL.B. from Keio University, where he studied political science (major), Japanese literature and arts (minor), and statistics. From Fall 2025, he will be a Ph.D. student in Public Policy (Politics and Institution Track) at Harvard University.

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), decentralized governance, and rugby football.

Outside Stanford, he is affiliated with the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project, and awarded as Keio University Global Fellow 2023.

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