David Lazer is a University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, a research fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, and an elected member of the National Academy for Public Administration. 

He has published widely on topics in computational social science, democratic deliberation, collective intelligence, and the online information ecosystem. His research has been published in such journals as Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the American Political Science Review. His research has received extensive coverage in the media, including the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and CBS Evening News.  

He is cofounder and coleader of the Civic Health and Institutions Project (CHIP50), an ongoing 50 state + DC survey evaluating the state of US democracy; lead PI of the National Internet Observatory, a large ($16m) NSF supported data collection/sharing infrastructure designed to support the research on the platforms of the internet; founding board member of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research; founding Director of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, co-director of the Institute for Information, the Internet & Democracy at Northeastern; and has served numerous leadership positions within the academy.