Nynke Niezink
Assistant Professor
Bio
Nynke Niezink is an Assistant Professor in the Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science Department, an affiliated faculty member of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and a core member of the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics, housed in Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
She joined Carnegie Mellon in 2018, after completing her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Prior to that, she received her B.Sc. in Mathematics, B.Sc. in Pedagogigal Sciences, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, and Research M.Sc. in Behavioral and Social Sciences, with a specialization in Psychometrics and Statistics, from the University of Groningen. Her work has been supported by an NWO Research Talent Grant, an NSF SBE Award, a Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant, and various NIH grants, amongst others.
Specific Research Interests
Niezink's main methodological research interests include statistical inference for social network data (longitudinal modeling, multiplex networks, relational event models, three-way networks, etc) and social sciences and humanities data broadly (pairwise comparisons, text data, etc). Her applied areas of interest include education, health sciences, organizational behavior, sociology, and criminology.