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.
Education
- Harvard Kennedy School & GSAS | Cambridge, MA
- Ph.D. Student | August 2025 -
- Public Policy (Politics and Institution Track)
- Stanford Graduate School of Business | Stanford, CA
- Research Fellow (Predoctoral) | July 2023 - June 2025
- Political Economics Group
- Keio University | Tokyo, Japan
- LL.B. in Political Science | April 2019 - March 2023
- Harvard College | Cambridge, MA
- Visiting Undergraduate Student | August 2020 - May 2021