Nirvikar Jassal is an assistant professor of political science at the London School of Economics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's King Center on Global Development. He specializes on policing, crime, and criminal justice with a regional focus on South Asia. His research has utilized quasi-experiments, experiments, and machine learning to understand violence against women, hate crime, perceptions of law enforcement, and criminal justice accountability. His writings have appeared in the American Political Science Review and Science. He also worked at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, and served as an aide in the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He holds a BA from Columbia University (2010), an MSc from Oxford University (2012), and a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley (2020).