Professor Dr. Bailey Flanigan

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Bailey Flanigan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a background in computer science. In the 2024-2025 academic year, she will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Data Science Institute and the Harvard Ash Center. She obtained her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. Bailey's research employs computer scientific techniques to study political methodology, formal theory, and substantive applications related to the design of democratic processes. Her teaching includes courses on AI Alignment, exploring moral, political, and computational foundations in collaboration with esteemed colleagues.

Research Interests

Formal Methods Sampling Methods Deliberative Democracy Public Opinion Measurement Preference Elicitation Democratic Process Design Machine Learning Social Choice Theory Survey Research

Experience

Assistant Professor

2024-01-01 — 2025-07-31

Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science.

Courses

17.S917/6.S051 AI Alignment: Moral, Political, Computational Foundations