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The Future of Survey Science

September 22, 2024 - September 25, 2024

Cornell University – Ithaca, NY

Government, industry, and academia depend on surveys more than ever before. However, shifting social behaviors, technology, and public trust mean that the accuracy and reliability of surveys are in flux. This Thought Summit brings together experts in survey research with connections to large NSF-funded surveys, data science, and AI. Our goal is to identify innovations, opportunities for collaboration, and potential infrastructure to support the most accurate and cost-effective surveys. To do this, the Thought Summit will focus on two overlapping areas.

1.) Identifying ways government-funded surveys can collaborate to gain efficiencies and meet survey research goals.

2.) Identifying ways AI and data science can enhance these collaborations and inform strategies to solve contemporary challenges faced by survey research.

Our vision is for all attendees to attend all sessions. At the same time, we understand that pre-existing commitments may mean attendees need to miss some parts of the Thought Summit.

The Summit is supported by the Cornell Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, and the National Science Foundation (Award: 2431915)

Organizers

Portrait of Peter Enns

Peter Enns

PI

Professor, Department of Government & Brooks School of Public Policy; Robert S. Harrison Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences; Co-founder, Verasight.io

Portrait of Colleen Barry

Colleen Barry

Co-PI

Inaugural Dean, Brooks School of Public Policy

Portrait of Thorsten Joachims

Thorsten Joachims

Co-PI

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Department of Information Science; Associate Dean for Research, Bowers College of Information Science

Portrait of Jonathon P. Schuldt

Jonathon P. Schuldt

Co-PI

Professor, Department of Communication; Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Participants

Colleen Barry

Colleen Barry

Moderator

Inaugural Dean, Brooks School of Public Policy

Peter Enns

Peter Enns

Professor, Department of Government & Brooks School of Public Policy; Robert S. Harrison Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences; Co-founder, Verasight.io

Thorsten Joachims

Thorsten Joachims

Moderator

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Department of Information Science; Associate Dean for Research, Bowers College of Information Science

Jonathon P. Schuldt

Jonathon P. Schuldt

Professor, Department of Communication; Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Alice Malmberg

Alice Malmberg

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at UC Davis

Brianna Zichettella

Brianna Zichettella

Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan

Brady West

Brady West

Moderator

Research Professor in the Survey Methodology and Data Science Program at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Byungkyu Lee

Byungkyu Lee

Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University, and co-Director of the Networks in Context lab

Cameron McPhee

Cameron McPhee

Moderator

SSRS Chief Methodologist and former Principal Researcher and Survey Methodologist at the American Institutes for Research

Celestine Mendler-Düenner

Celestine Mendler-Düenner

Principal Investigator at the ELLIS Institute in Tübingen, co-affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Tübingen AI Center

Cheryl Eavey

Cheryl Eavey

NSF Program Director, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)

danah boyd

danah boyd

Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and founder of Data & Society.

David Lazer

David Lazer

Professor of Political Science and Computer Science at Northeastern University, Co-PI of the CHIP50 project, co-founder of Volunteer Science, co-founder of the National Internet Observatory, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard

David Rothschild

David Rothschild

Economist at Microsoft Research and Co-PI on Penn Media Accountability Project

Doug Rivers

Doug Rivers

Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Chief Scientist at YouGov, CEO of Crunch.io

David C. Wilson

David C. Wilson

Moderator

Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, and Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley

Esther Friedman

Esther Friedman

Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

Frauke Kreuter

Frauke Kreuter

Co-Director of the Social Data Science Center and faculty member in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, USA; and Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

Hansol Lee

Hansol Lee

PhD student in Education Data Science at Stanford University

Isabela Coelho

Isabela Coelho

PhD student at the University of Maryland and Graduate Research Assistant at the Social and Data Science Center

James Druckman

James Druckman

Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, Co-PI of the CHIP50 Project, Co-PI of Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)

Jennifer Lin

Jennifer Lin

Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University

Jeremy Pope

Jeremy Pope

Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, Co-PI of the Cooperative Election Study, Co-PI of the American Family Survey; Constitutional Government Fellow at the Wheatley Institution, Senior Scholar with the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy

Lee Walker

Lee Walker

NSF Program Director, Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS), Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB)

Lorrie Frasure

Lorrie Frasure

Inaugural Ralph J. Bunche Endowed Chair and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at UCLA, Co-PI of the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CPMS), Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

Maureen Craig

Maureen Craig

Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University; Co-PI of Time Series Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)

Melissa Sands

Melissa Sands

Assistant Professor of Politics and Data Science, London School of Economics

Natalie Masuoka

Natalie Masuoka

Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at UCLA, Faculty Director of the Asian American Policy Initiative, Co-PI of the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey

Neil Malhotra

Neil Malhotra

Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Nicholas Valentino

Nicholas Valentino

Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan, PI of the American National Election Studies (ANES)

Paige Bollen

Paige Bollen

Assistant Professor of Political Science, the Ohio State University

Pamela Herd

Pamela Herd

Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Co-PI of the General Social Survey (GSS)

René Bautista

René Bautista

Associate Director of the Methodology and Quantitative Social Sciences Department at NORC-University Chicago, Co-PI and Director of the General Social Survey (GSS)

Saskia Bartholomäus

Saskia Bartholomäus

PhD student in Data and Research on Society, GESIS

Sunshine Hillygus

Sunshine Hillygus

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University, Director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology, Associate PI of the American National Election Studies (ANES)

Trent Buskirk

Trent Buskirk

Professor and Provost Fellow, School of Data Science, Old Dominion University