Ethan Fosse

Ethan Fosse is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Data Sciences Institute, Faculty Affiliate with the Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering, and Co-Director of the Consortium on Advanced Social Analytics at the University of Toronto. Before joining the University of Toronto, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Politics, where he developed and led a series of open-source data science and computer programming workshops. At the University of Toronto, Professor Fosse teaches courses on artificial intelligence, social change, and data science.

Professor Fosse's research focuses on applying innovative computational and quantitative methods to understand social change, inequality, and social connectedness. He is primarily engaged in three interrelated projects: first, creating a new set of techniques for cohort analysis, with wide application in sociology and related fields; second, applying and extending these methods to various substantive areas, from verbal ability to political party identification to social mobility; finally, developing and applying novel data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) methods, such as graph neural networks and transformer-based models, to answer pressing social science questions. Professor Fosse's research has been published in numerous volumes and journals, with recent work appearing in Demography, Sociological Science, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods and Research, and the Annual Review of Sociology.

Note: I am currently accepting graduate students for supervision and research positions. If you are interested, please email me at: ethan.fosse@utoronto.ca