Jae Yeon Kim is a Fellow at the Better Government Lab and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Michigan’s Ford School. He is also assistant research scientist at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Kim is a computational political scientist focusing on urban, social, and technology policy in the United States. Specifically, he uses computational approaches to study (1) state capacity in policy implementation and (2) civic capacity in offline and online spaces. His recent projects seek to identify and reduce administrative burdens in U.S. safety net programs using human-centered design, field experimentation, and surveys, collaborating with state and local governments and nonprofits.