Research Areas

Methodological work ⚙️Applications 🔬
Global causal inferenceTheory & empirics of descriptive representation
Research designPolitical economy
Computational text analysisSport, social movements & globalization
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Academic Background

A.M., Statistics, Harvard (2020)

Ph.D., Government, Harvard (2021)

Since 2022: Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

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2020

  • September 16 – Presenting “Detecting and Characterizing Latent Influence Dynamics in Social Science Data Using Machine Learning” at the Harvard Applied Statistics Workshop
  • September 13 – Presenting “Detecting and Characterizing Latent Influence Dynamics in Social Science Data Using Machine Learning” at APSA
  • July 14 – Presenting “Detecting and Characterizing Latent Influence Dynamics in Social Science Data Using Machine Learning” at PolMeth XXXVII
  • May 28 – Received an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University
  • May 4 – The paper, “The impact of a transportation intervention on electoral politics: Evidence from E-ZPass”, published in Research in Transportation Economics [PDF] [Boston Globe Write-up]

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