Summary
Philip Schrodt is a seasoned data scientist and political-methodology expert, currently Senior Research Scientist at Parus Analytics LLC. His career spans decades in academia and applied research, including roles at Northwestern University, the University of Kansas, and Pennsylvania State University, along with leadership of NSF, DARPA, and IARPA-funded projects. He was at the forefront of political forecasting, inventing the ICEWS event-data core in the 1990s and advancing computational NLP, neural networks, and ML methods for social science. He holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in Mathematics from Indiana University Bloomington, reflecting a rare blend of quantitative rigor and political insight. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, he has almost 100 academic publications and a long track record of remote collaboration with clients and researchers.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Political Science, Ph.D, Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington