Welcome to my website. I am a Ph.D. student at Harvard Kennedy School (Ph.D. in Public Policy, Politics and Institutions Track).

My interest spans two fields: international relations (especially, political violence, civil wars, terrorism, and misinformation) and political methodologies (especially, causal inference, machine learning, and integration of both fields). Substantively, I am interested in the interaction among militant organizations, governments, and local populations and how militant organizations try to survive under severe counterinsurgencies. I am also investigating how information campaigns are carried out by states or non-state organizations, and how we can prevent it. To solve my research question, I am developing novel methodologies, working mainly on causal inference, machine learning, and their intersection.

I have been engaged in several research projects related to these interests. My work has been published at the peer-reviewed journal (international journal of communication). Since September 2022, I also have worked as a Data and Causal Inference Analyst at Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST).

Before coming at Harvard, I received M.S. in Statistics from the University of Chicago and B.A. in Political Science from Waseda University in Japan. You can download my CV from here. Feel free to reach me out from knakamura [at]g.harvard.edu.