Tyler Simko

Tyler Simko

Tyler Simko is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Tyler's research investigates sources and solutions to inequality in American state and local public policy using computational methods and causal inference. As a Data Scientist at the Office of Evaluation Sciences — an interdisciplinary team that works across the US federal government to help agencies build and use evidence — Tyler designs and implements causal evaluations of federal, state, and local public policies. Tyler is also a founding member of Harvard's Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project, where he studies geographic inequality through policy issues like legislative redistricting. Before graduate school, he served as the President of the South Amboy Board of Education in New Jersey.