PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Dustin Tingley

Also known as Dustin H. Tingley

Dustin Tingley is a political scientist whose work applies machine learning to social science and education. He earned a BA from Rochester and a PhD from Princeton, then co-founded ABLConnect; his work also includes the stm package for structural topic models. With Helen Milner, he wrote an APSA-awarded book on U.S. foreign policy, and with Alexander Gazmararian he wrote about political obstacles to the clean-energy transition. As of October 2026, he is Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning.

Timeline

  1. 2001–2010

    Education in Rochester and Princeton

    He earns a BA from the University of Rochester in 2001 and a PhD in politics from Princeton in 2010.

  2. 2012

    Founding ABLConnect

    He co-founds ABLConnect in 2012 as an online database of active-learning resources.

  3. 2015–2016

    Sailing the Water’s Edge

    With Helen Milner, he publishes Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy in fall 2015; the book receives the 2016 Gladys M. Kammerer Award from APSA.

  4. 2018

    The stm R package

    In 2018, Tingley, Molly Roberts, and Brandon M. Stewart receive the Statistical Software Award for stm, an R package for Structural Topic Models.

  5. 2023

    Uncertain Futures on clean energy

    With Alexander F. Gazmararian, he publishes Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse in 2023. The book examines political obstacles to the energy transition and proposes credible promises that build support.

  6. As of October 2026

    Vice provost for learning

    Harvard names him vice provost for advances in learning in September 2026, after he serves as deputy vice provost from 2018 and interim vice provost from August 2025. His office coordinates Harvard’s pedagogical innovation, digital education, and education technology efforts. As a political scientist, his recent work applies machine learning to social sciences and predicts students’ likelihood of online course completion.

  1. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 53% of people in our data with a known employment countryOur estimates of where AI careers are concentrated now and how countries’ shares of dated positions changed over time.
  3. 47% of living people in our data with known birth and employment countries work outside their birth countryOur estimate of cross-border careers in AI, from country of birth and the country of each current organization.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionOur estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

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  1. Dustin Tingley - Open edX openedx.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Dustin Tingley named vice provost for advances in learning — Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Dustin Tingley – Department of Government gov.harvard.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Gladys M. Kammerer Award - American Political Science Association (APSA) apsanet.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Statistical software award cambridge.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Uncertain Futures cambridge.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Harvard Kennedy School’s Dustin Tingley Named Vice Provost for Advances in Learning | The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com. Checked 19 October 2026.