Jennifer Bachner

About Jennifer Bachner

Jennifer Bachner, PhD is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the University of Maryland School of Public Health.She was previously Director of the Center for Data Analytics, Policy, and Government at Johns Hopkins University, and prior to that founded and directed the JHU Data Analytics and Policy Program.She is the author of Warping Time: How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Present and Future (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Michigan University Press), America\'s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Routledge), What Washington Gets Wrong (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Penguin Random House) and editor of Analytics, Policy and Governance (with Kathryn Wagner Hill and Benjamin Ginsberg, Yale University Press). Her reports,\"Optimizing Analytics for Policymaking and Governance\" and \"Predictive Policing: Preventing Crime with Data and Analytics,\" have been published by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Her work on online learning has been published by the Journal of Political Science Education and PS: Political Science and Politics. As an expert on analytics, political behavior, and online education, she has been quoted and/or cited in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Roll Call, Government Executive, and on NPR and Federal News Network.Bachner received her PhD in Government from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees in political science and social studies education from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Experience

1. Affiliate Faculty

   Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute At Maryland Aim

   Jun 2024 — Present

Education

• University of Maryland

  B.A, Government and Politics

  2001 — 2005

• University of Maryland

  B.S., Secondary Social Studies Education

  2001 — 2005

• Harvard University

  Ph.D, Government

  2005 — 2011

Skills

• Stata
• Spss
• Latex
• Policy Analysis
• Quantitative Analytics
• Project Management
• Political Science
• Public Policy
• Research
• Politics
• Qualitative Research
• Statistics
• Public Opinion Research
• Teaching
• Grant Writing
• Public Speaking
• International Relations
• Program Evaluation
• Editing
• Research Design