Jae Yeon Kim
@jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
incoming asst prof of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data science @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
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9 Tips for Forging Your Own Path After the PhD (Especially for Policy-Oriented Social and Data Scientists)
These are the nine tips (some dos and also don'ts) I’ve shared with graduate students and postdocs at Berkeley, Stanford, and USC.
These are the nine tips (some dos and also don'ts) I’ve shared with graduate students and postdocs at Berkeley, Stanford, and USC.
I wanted to write a longer piece on Vijayendra Rao's farewell lecture (Policy for the People) at the World Bank after 26 years of service, but I'll save that for later.
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
Policy Research Talk | Policy for the People
In this Policy Research Talk, World Bank Lead Economist Vijayendra Rao explores participatory, adaptive approaches that make development inclusive, accountable, and effective.
www.worldbank.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I wanted to write a longer piece on Vijayendra Rao's farewell lecture (Policy for the People) at the World Bank after 26 years of service, but I'll save that for later.
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
Reposted by Jae Yeon Kim
Hello Bluesky 🤗
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hello Bluesky 🤗
9 Tips for Forging Your Own Path After the PhD (Especially for Policy-Oriented Social and Data Scientists)
These are the nine tips (some dos and also don'ts) I’ve shared with graduate students and postdocs at Berkeley, Stanford, and USC.
These are the nine tips (some dos and also don'ts) I’ve shared with graduate students and postdocs at Berkeley, Stanford, and USC.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
9 Tips for Forging Your Own Path After the PhD (Especially for Policy-Oriented Social and Data Scientists)
These are the nine tips (some dos and also don'ts) I’ve shared with graduate students and postdocs at Berkeley, Stanford, and USC.
These are the nine tips (some dos and also don'ts) I’ve shared with graduate students and postdocs at Berkeley, Stanford, and USC.
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/raising-th...
Today was another rejection, this time from one of the big grants I applied to this year. Academic CVs are a perfect example of survivor bias because we never list these parts. But if you aim high, getting knocked down is almost inevitable.
Today was another rejection, this time from one of the big grants I applied to this year. Academic CVs are a perfect example of survivor bias because we never list these parts. But if you aim high, getting knocked down is almost inevitable.
jaeyeonkim.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/raising-th...
Today was another rejection, this time from one of the big grants I applied to this year. Academic CVs are a perfect example of survivor bias because we never list these parts. But if you aim high, getting knocked down is almost inevitable.
Today was another rejection, this time from one of the big grants I applied to this year. Academic CVs are a perfect example of survivor bias because we never list these parts. But if you aim high, getting knocked down is almost inevitable.
Thanks to Brian, I had the chance to share my unusual career path (tenure-track → civic tech → academia → tenure-track) with a group of graduate students in USC's political science PhD program.
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Thanks to Brian, I had the chance to share my unusual career path (tenure-track → civic tech → academia → tenure-track) with a group of graduate students in USC's political science PhD program.
New from me.
What I Tell Policy Students About Doing Research with Practitioners
1. Meet practitioners where they are.
2. Do not start by asking for what you need.
3. Make your partners' lives easier.
substack.com/@jaeyeonkim/...
What I Tell Policy Students About Doing Research with Practitioners
1. Meet practitioners where they are.
2. Do not start by asking for what you need.
3. Make your partners' lives easier.
substack.com/@jaeyeonkim/...
What I Tell Policy Students About Doing Research with Practitioners
During the last APPAM, many students approached me to ask how to conduct applied policy work or how to undertake projects that advance scholarship and still benefit practitioners.
substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New from me.
What I Tell Policy Students About Doing Research with Practitioners
1. Meet practitioners where they are.
2. Do not start by asking for what you need.
3. Make your partners' lives easier.
substack.com/@jaeyeonkim/...
What I Tell Policy Students About Doing Research with Practitioners
1. Meet practitioners where they are.
2. Do not start by asking for what you need.
3. Make your partners' lives easier.
substack.com/@jaeyeonkim/...
Administrative Imagination
How to be an Effective Problem Solver in the Policy Space (as a Social and Data Scientist)
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/administra...
How to be an Effective Problem Solver in the Policy Space (as a Social and Data Scientist)
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/administra...
Administrative Imagination
How to be an Effective Problem Solver in the Policy Space (as a Social and Data Scientist)
jaeyeonkim.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Administrative Imagination
How to be an Effective Problem Solver in the Policy Space (as a Social and Data Scientist)
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/administra...
How to be an Effective Problem Solver in the Policy Space (as a Social and Data Scientist)
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/administra...
I arrived a day early for APPAM and spent some time doing fieldwork in the CID (Chinatown and International District), which is part of my book project: jaeyk.github.io/book_project...
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I arrived a day early for APPAM and spent some time doing fieldwork in the CID (Chinatown and International District), which is part of my book project: jaeyk.github.io/book_project...
My personal tips on how to write a strong SOP for political science or public policy programs:
jaeyk.github.io/essays/sop.h...
jaeyk.github.io/essays/sop.h...
How to Write a Statement of Purpose for Graduate School in Political Science / Public Policy – Hello, I’m Jae.
jaeyk.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My personal tips on how to write a strong SOP for political science or public policy programs:
jaeyk.github.io/essays/sop.h...
jaeyk.github.io/essays/sop.h...
Parenting Between Two Worlds: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Parenting Between Two Worlds
My wife and I are both first-generation immigrants, so parenting, especially in the domain of language education, has been an interesting challenge.
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Parenting Between Two Worlds: substack.com/home/post/p-...
My brief reflection on attending this year’s GovAI Coalition Summit as one of the few academics:
Bridging the Gap:
Why Policy Scholars Should Attend Practitioner Conferences
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/bridging-t...
Bridging the Gap:
Why Policy Scholars Should Attend Practitioner Conferences
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/bridging-t...
Bridging the Gap: Why Policy Scholars Should Attend Practitioner Conferences
This week I attended the GovAI Coalition Summit, a gathering of local governments across the U.S.
jaeyeonkim.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My brief reflection on attending this year’s GovAI Coalition Summit as one of the few academics:
Bridging the Gap:
Why Policy Scholars Should Attend Practitioner Conferences
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/bridging-t...
Bridging the Gap:
Why Policy Scholars Should Attend Practitioner Conferences
jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/bridging-t...
Fellow policy scholars attending APPAM next week: If you work on language accessibility and AI translation/interpretation at the local level, I would love to discuss. You can reach out to me via [email protected]
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Fellow policy scholars attending APPAM next week: If you work on language accessibility and AI translation/interpretation at the local level, I would love to discuss. You can reach out to me via [email protected]
📅 Excited to share my next week's APPAM schedule!
Fellow social and tech policy scholars: I’ll be presenting and discussing research on administrative burden, AI, and tech governance across four sessions next week in Seattle:
Fellow social and tech policy scholars: I’ll be presenting and discussing research on administrative burden, AI, and tech governance across four sessions next week in Seattle:
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📅 Excited to share my next week's APPAM schedule!
Fellow social and tech policy scholars: I’ll be presenting and discussing research on administrative burden, AI, and tech governance across four sessions next week in Seattle:
Fellow social and tech policy scholars: I’ll be presenting and discussing research on administrative burden, AI, and tech governance across four sessions next week in Seattle:
2nd day at the GovAI Coalition Summit
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
2nd day at the GovAI Coalition Summit
Working paper alert 📢
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest
<p><span>Protests constitute a primary way that members of the public express their preferences and seek to change public policy. Focusing on policy protests in
papers.ssrn.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Working paper alert 📢
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Here at the GovAI Coalition Summit until this Friday
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Here at the GovAI Coalition Summit until this Friday
APPAM is next week. It's definitely one of my favorite communities, academic or otherwise. This year marks the 47th APPAM research conference. In this post, I share what Duncan MacRae Jr. wrote about his experience at the very first one, held in 1979 in Chicago: substack.com/home/post/p-...
APPAM at 47: A Community Where Policy Science Thrives
Duncan MacRae Jr., my department’s institutional founder at UNC, received his PhD from Harvard’s Department of Social Relations, which was later disaggregated into separate departments.
substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
APPAM is next week. It's definitely one of my favorite communities, academic or otherwise. This year marks the 47th APPAM research conference. In this post, I share what Duncan MacRae Jr. wrote about his experience at the very first one, held in 1979 in Chicago: substack.com/home/post/p-...
This Thursday, I shared what my postdoc (or post-PhD) experience was like and how I used that time to bridge my dissertation work with my long-term research direction.
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This Thursday, I shared what my postdoc (or post-PhD) experience was like and how I used that time to bridge my dissertation work with my long-term research direction.
Reposted by Jae Yeon Kim
Don't talk about it much on here, but I co-direct a research lab, and here is an update of what we are up to.
cc @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social @jbarofsky.bsky.social @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
bettergovernmentlab.org/so/c6PeDbgsR...
cc @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social @jbarofsky.bsky.social @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
bettergovernmentlab.org/so/c6PeDbgsR...
October Newsletter
The Better Government Lab (BGL) monthly newsletter keeps you up-to-date with the latest research, conversations, and news from the world of civic tech, state capacity, and public policy. Comments or q...
bettergovernmentlab.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Don't talk about it much on here, but I co-direct a research lab, and here is an update of what we are up to.
cc @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social @jbarofsky.bsky.social @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
bettergovernmentlab.org/so/c6PeDbgsR...
cc @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social @jbarofsky.bsky.social @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
bettergovernmentlab.org/so/c6PeDbgsR...
GovAI Coalition Summit is next week, and I’m looking forward to connecting with procurement professionals and researchers working to make the process smarter, more effective, and more accountable. I see procurement as both a key bottleneck and al lever for enabling government innovation.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GovAI Coalition Summit is next week, and I’m looking forward to connecting with procurement professionals and researchers working to make the process smarter, more effective, and more accountable. I see procurement as both a key bottleneck and al lever for enabling government innovation.
I wrote a short reflection on my appreciation for my mom. I came from a working-class background, but she made the difference: jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/dear-mama?...
Dear Mama
I came from a working-class family.
jaeyeonkim.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I wrote a short reflection on my appreciation for my mom. I came from a working-class background, but she made the difference: jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/dear-mama?...
Reposted by Jae Yeon Kim
Stanford's RegLab is also hiring a new executive director:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/executi...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/executi...
Executive Director, Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab), Stanford Law School in School of Law, Stanford, California, United States
Executive Director, Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab), Stanford Law School About Us: Stanford RegLab is an impact lab that carries.....
careersearch.stanford.edu
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Stanford's RegLab is also hiring a new executive director:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/executi...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/executi...
Reposted by Jae Yeon Kim
Upturn is hiring a new Executive Director: www.upturn.org/join/executi...
Upturn Seeks an Executive Director
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
www.upturn.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Upturn is hiring a new Executive Director: www.upturn.org/join/executi...
Reposted by Jae Yeon Kim
Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
Cornell University, Empire AI Fellows Program
Job #AJO30971, Postdoctoral Fellow, Empire AI Fellows Program, Cornell University, New York, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971