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Katayoun Kishi

ACLED head of data science · United States

Affiliated with ACLED

Advocacy NGO

Head of Data Science at ACLED; leads methodology, automation, and quality control for event coding.

Funding & financing

ACLED salary from disclosed funder mix.

Affiliations

ACLED data-science leadership.

Disclosures & conflicts

Data-science choices (deduplication, geolocation, actor attribution) shape Gaza dashboards — methodology docs should be read alongside headlines.

Credibility & caveats

Technical authority on ACLED's collection and verification pipeline.

Cases in this record

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Sources & disclosures