Joseph Sutherland is a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. His research generates novel insights about the interplay between artificial intelligence and politics, and leverages these insights to address critical functions of our political institutions. The subject matter is part of the emerging field of computational social science, which combines data science and political science to conduct research at scale. His research has been featured in top political science publications, including Political Behavior.
As a result of his work, he holds provisional patents for the reduction and mapping of dimensionality in “big” unstructured datasets and a system and interface for massive-scale, multi-container processing of generative programming to process “big data.” His work received the National Science Foundation’s Honorable Mention in 2017, considered a national honor. Before starting his Ph.D., he worked as a senior director at an industrial text analytics company, and as an advance staffer in the Obama White House. As an ISEP fellow, he partners with entrepreneurial electricity providers to examine the nature of microgrid electrification in developing countries.