Welcome
Sho Miyazaki is a Visiting Researcher at Waseda Institute of Political Economy and an incoming 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. He is a member of the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project.
Education
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | Cambridge, MA
- Ph.D. Student | Admitted 2025, Enrollment Deferred to 2026
- Public Policy (Politics and Institution Track)
- Stanford Graduate School of Business | Stanford, CA
- Predoctoral Research Fellow | 2023 – 2025
- Political Economy Group
- Keio University – Faculty of Law | Tokyo, Japan
- LL.B. in Political Science | 2019 – 2023