Noah Dasanaike
PhD Candidate
Department of Government
Harvard University
Hi, I'm Noah. I'm a fourth-year PhD candidate and the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where I also received my MA (2024) and BA (2022). In the Summer of 2025, I was a Quantitative Research Intern at Two Sigma, where I continue to work part-time during the academic year.
My research studies the origins, structure, and persistence of political cleavages, particularly from a comparative and geographic perspective. I also work on computational methods for large-scale data collection, including the use of language models for historical document digitization, record linkage, and ethnicity inference.
I am the creator of the Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset, a database of geocoded, small-area (usually polling-station level) election results for 110 countries. You can read more, download the data, and explore it on the map here.
You can access EnsembleLink, my state-of-the-art method for zero-shot record linkage, here.
At Harvard, I have twice taught the Ph.D.-level "Math Prefresher" and GOV 2020: The Hidden Curriculum (for Gary King). I have also taught STAT 186: Causal Inference (for Susan Murphy) and GOV 97: Political Geography (instructor on record), as well as a GIS workshop for PhD students. Separately, I have also done redistricting consulting.
You can contact me by email at noahdasanaike@g.harvard.edu.