Initiator of the PSR HUB, Samir KC is a senior research scholar at IIASA and led the Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Research Group in the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program from 2021 to 2023. KC is a founding member of and Professor at the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University. KC is leading ADRI’s research pillar on Human Capital and Development. He is also a founding member of “Digital Data Systems for Development” in Nepal. Between 2020-2023, KC was affiliated with the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, as a ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor.
KC’s primary research interests are: developing and applying multi-dimensional multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections, focusing on modeling human capital formation (education and health) and urbanization. He has co-developed an R package (MSDem) that can simultaneously model multi-dimensional population dynamics at sub-national levels by age, sex, and educational attainment. KC has published in Science magazine (2011, 2014) and other peer-reviewed journals (e.g., GEC in 2014, PNAS in 2016, 2018 and 2026), and has co-edited and written several chapters in the book “World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” published by Oxford University Press in 2014. KC’s master’s degree in statistics is from Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1997). Subsequently, he taught university statistics in Kathmandu and worked as a biostatistician at the Nepal Health Research Council. KC received his PhD. (specialized in demography and health) from the department of spatial science at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2009). His work connects demography, statistics and human development.
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