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Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

1737 Cambridge Street
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone: 617-384-6778
Email: Imai at Harvard dot Edu
URL: https://websites.harvard.edu/koi605/

Education

  • Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard University (1999 – 2003).
  • A.M. in Statistics, Harvard University (2000 – 2002).
  • B.A. in Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo (1994 – 1998).

Positions

Honors and Awards

  • Invited to read “Experimental Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Human Decision-Making: Application to Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument.” before the Royal Statistical Society Research Section, London (2022).
  • Highly Cited Researcher (cross-field category) for “production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science,” awarded by Clarivate Analytics (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021).
  • Excellence in Mentoring Award, awarded by the Society for Political Methodology (2021).
  • Statistical Software Award for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution, for “fastLink: Fast Probabilistic Record Linkage,” awarded by the Society for Political Methodology (2021).
  • President, the Society of Political Methodology (2017-2019). Vice President and President-elect (2015-2017).
  • Elected Fellow, the Society of Political Methodology (2017).
  • The Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award, awarded by Journal of Peace Research (2017).
  • Statistical Software Award for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution, for “mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis,” awarded by the Society for Political Methodology (2015).
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Educaional and Behavioral Statistics, given by the American Educational Research Association (2014).
  • The Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award, given by the Department of Politics, Princeton University (2013).
  • Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2012 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, for “Explaining Support for Combatants during Wartime: A Survey Experiment in Afghanistan,” awarded by the Midwest Political Science Association (2013).
  • Invited to read “Experimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms” before the Royal Statistical Society Research Section, London (2012).
  • Inaugural recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award for a young scholar making exceptional contributions to political methodology who is within ten years of their terminal degree, awarded by the Society for Political Methodology (2011).
  • Political Analysis Editors’ Choice Award for an article providing an especially significant contribution to political methodology, for “Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Optimal Planning of the Get-out-the-vote Campaign,” awarded by the Society for Political Methodology and Oxford University Press (2011).
  • The Tom Ten Have Memorial Award for the best poster presented at the 2011 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference, for “Identifying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity through Optimal Classification and Variable Selection,” awarded by the Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics, University of Michigan (2011).
  • Nominated for the Graduate Mentoring Award, The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University (2010, 2011).
  • New Hot Paper, for the most-cited paper in the field of Economics & Business in the last two months among papers published in the last year, for “Misunderstandings among Experimentalists and Observationalists about Causal Inference,” named by Thomson Reuters’ ScienceWatch (2009).
  • Warren Miller Prize for the best article published in Political Analysis, for “Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference,” awarded by the Society for Political Methodology and Oxford University Press (2008).
  • Fast Breaking Paper for the article with the largest percentage increase in citations among those in the top 1% of total citations across the social sciences in the last two years, for “Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference,” named by Thomson Reuters’ ScienceWatch (2008).
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Outstanding Reviewer Recognition (2008).
  • Miyake Award for the best political science article published in 2005, for “Do Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout? The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Experiments,” awarded by the Japanese Political Science Association (2006).
  • Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science, for Essays on Political Methodology, awarded by Harvard University (2004). Also, nominated for American Political Science Association E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government and politics.

Selected Manuscripts

Publications in English

Books

Refereed Journal Articles

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Invited Contributions

Other Publications

Publications in Japanese

Statistical Software

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