Cory McCartan

Hoben and Patricia Thomas and Thomas and Ann Hettmansperger Early Career Professor of Statistics (Assistant Professor)
Cory McCartan
Cory
McCartan
Hoben and Patricia Thomas and Thomas and Ann Hettmansperger Early Career Professor of Statistics (Assistant Professor)
Interests
Computational Social Science
Bayesian Methods
Causal Inference
Spatial Data
Elections
Address
Phone
(814)867-5363
Website
corymccartan.com

Biography

Cory McCartan is the Hoben and Patricia Thomas and Thomas and Ann Hettmansperger Early Career Professor of Statistics at Penn State and a faculty affiliate in political science.

His research focuses on methodological and applied problems in the social sciences, including elections, legislative redistricting, racial disparities, and missing data. He is a Co-PI of the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project at Harvard University. As part of his research, he also develops and maintains a number of open-source R packages for redistricting, statistical analysis, and visualization.

McCartan earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 2023, and a BA in math from Grinnell College in 2019.  He worked as a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University for a year before joining Penn State in 2024.

 

Research and Publications

An up-to-date list of publications and research areas may be found on his website.