Neelanjan Sircar is a Senior Visiting Fellow at Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. His research interests include Indian political economy and comparative political behavior with an eye to Bayesian statistics, causal inference, social network analysis, and game theory. His recent work focused on State level elections in India through both data work and ethnographic methods.

Neelanjan is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and economics from UC Berkeley.