Winston Chou

Hi there,

I'm a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix, where I work horizontally on experimentation and causal inference and substantively on measuring fairness in A/B tests.

Prior to joining Netflix, I was a Staff Data Scientist at Apple, where I helped to build Siri's A/B testing platform, and a Research Scientist at Facebook, where I worked on missing data problems in ads measurement.

I received my PhD in political science from Princeton University, where I was lucky to work with Rafaela Dancygier and Kosuke Imai. I studied voting decisions and survey methodology, and eventually wrote a dissertation on electoral politics in Europe.

My wife, Katherine McCabe, teaches American politics and data science at Rutgers University.

My resume can be found here.

Research

1. Chou, Winston. 2021. "Randomized controlled trials without data retention." Presented at Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT).
2. Chou, Winston and Rafaela Dancygier. 2021. "Why parties displace their voters: Gentrification, coalitional change, and the demise of public housing." American Political Science Review. A nice blog post on this paper.
3. Chou, Winston, Rafaela Dancygier, Naoki Egami, and Amaney Jamal. 2021. "Competing for loyalists? How party positioning affects populist radical right voting." Comparative Political Studies. Shared on the Monkey Cage blog and CNN.
4. Chou, Winston, Kosuke Imai, and Bryn Rosenfeld. 2020. "Sensitive survey questions with auxiliary information." Sociological Methods & Research.
5. Blair, Graeme, Winston Chou, and Kosuke Imai. 2019. "List experiments with measurement error." Political Analysis.
6. Chou, Winston. 2017. "Culture remains elusive: On the identification of cultural effects with instrumental variables." American Sociological Review.
7. Chou, Winston. 2016. "Seen like a state: How illegitimacy shapes terrorism designation." Social Forces.