Yair Ghitza Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc

Catalist is a data services company that collects, standardizes, and enhances data from official voter registration databases, as well as other commercial, public, and private data sources. We provide data to political campaigns, organizations, not for profit groups, and research organizations to help them conduct research or outreach, primarily focusing on the U.S. registered voter electorate.I lead statistical research and development as part of Catalist's Analytics team. As such, I am mainly responsible for constructing and overseeing the construction of thousands of predictive models. I also develop and implement new statistical methods to leverage our data to create new products that help our clients achieve their research and outreach goals. I regularly present research at academic and non-academic conferences, and I have prepared data and expert reports as a Catalist representative in a number of voting rights cases.

Chicago, Il

Part of Obama's "Analytics Cave" for the last 6 weeks of the campaign.

Washington, Dc

Created and implemented large-scale statistical models and data visualization projects for national, state and Congressional campaigns. This "microtargeting" work predicted probability of candidate support, voter turnout, issue support, and financial donation on the individual level for hundreds of millions of registered voters.

Cambridge, Ma

Performed core research in artificial intelligence and computer vision. Helped develop "attention glasses," a wearable aid that uses eye tracking to augment visual search capability.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science

Specialized in statistical and data visualization methods in American Politics, with particular focus on political behavior, large-scale.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science And Engineering

Focused on artificial intelligence, including implementation of a content-based audio identification system, which was able to identify.