Christoph Kern, PhD, is a visiting Assistant Professor from the Department of Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany.  Dr Kern will be teaching two JPSM courses this Fall; SURV727: Fundamentals of Computing and Data Display and SURV699U:Machine Learning for Social Science. We are very happy to have him join us for a semester at Maryland. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kern to JPSM!