Daniel Cork
Senior Fellow
Daniel Cork joined the Massive Data Institute (MDI) and the McCourt School of Public Policy as a Senior Fellow in April 2025, bringing nearly 25 years of experience from the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He began his tenure at CNSTAT in the summer of 2000, initially supporting the Panel to Review the 2000 Census. Over the next two decades, he played a leading role in virtually every CNSTAT study related to the U.S. decennial census and the American Community Survey through 2024.
His contributions included coordinating expert panels that advised on and helped shape the designs of the 2010 and 2020 Censuses, conducting in-depth reviews of the 2020 Census, and examining the residence rules that govern how individuals are counted. In addition to his work on population statistics, Dr. Cork made significant contributions to the field of crime and justice statistics. He directed major studies on the programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the development of a modern crime classification system for statistical purposes to modernize U.S. national crime statistics, and a follow-on study addressing the classification and measurement of cybercrime.
His other projects included work on the feasibility of a national ballistic imaging database and studies on quantifying excess mortality resulting from natural disasters.
Dr. Cork holds a B.S. in Statistics from The George Washington University and both an M.S. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.