Zack W. Almquist

Zack W. Almquist

Associate Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics and Senior Data Science Fellow @ eScience

Profile

Biography

Zack W. Almquist is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics, and a Senior Data Science Fellow in the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. Before coming to UW in 2020, Prof. Almquist held a Research Scientist position at Facebook, Inc. and was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Minnesota. He has held visiting scholar positions at Stanford University and the University of Washington. Dr. Almquist received his PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, where he also received MAs in Sociology and Demography. He also holds an MS in Statistics from Northwestern University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Oregon.

Awards and Grants

Prof Almquist is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Methodology’s Leo Goodman Award and the ASA’s Section on Mathematical Sociology’s Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Dr. Almquist is a recipient of the NSF’s CAREER Award and the ARO’s Young Investigator Program Award. His research has been funded by the NSF, NIH, ARO, University of Minnesota, and the University of Washington.

Service

Prof Almquist was elected vice chairperson (chair-elect) of the American Public Health Association’s Caucus on Homelessness (starting Fall 2024) and elected and served as the Secretary-Treasurer of ASA’s Section on Mathematical Sociology from 2018-2021.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology. He also served or serves on the Editorial Boards for the journals Social Networks, Sociological Perspectives, Population and Environment, and Sociological Methodology.

Research Interests

Prof Almquist’s research centers on developing and applying mathematical, computational, and statistical methodology to the problems and theory of social networks, demography, education, homelessness, and environmental action and governance. His current research program is focused on understanding crucial issues around housing and homelessness, environmental action and governance, and social network methods. His research has been published in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Sociological Methods & Research, Sociological Methodology, Population Space and Place, Mathematical Population Studies, American Journal of Human Biology and Political Analysis.

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