Daniel S. Nagin

Daniel Steven Nagin (born November 29, 1948) is an American criminologist, statistician, and the Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025. Education Nagin received his B.S. in Administrative and Managerial Sciences and M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 1971, and his Ph.D. from what is now the university's Heinz College in 1976.

Career Nagin served as Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986. He was also the research program area director of Carnegie Mellon University's National Consortium on Violence Research from 1997 to 2001. He has also researched the use of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data, as well as changes in criminal behavior over the human lifetime. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.