Emilio Zagheni

Emilio Zagheni is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also affiliated with the eScience Institute. He received his MA in Statistics (2008) and his PhD in Demography (2010) from the University of California, Berkeley.

He is broadly interested in population dynamics. He has worked on a number of interdisciplinary projects, in areas like kinship microsimulation, population and environment, the social determinants of the spread of infectious diseases, and the use of digital records to study patterns of internal and international mobility and migrations. Some of his recent work focuses on methods to make statistical inference from non-representative samples, like the ones extracted from social media data.