About Me

I am a third year PhD student in the Deparment of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am advised by Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla. My research interests include Bayesian modeling, social statistics, causal inference, and applications of high-performance computing to each of these fields.

I am also interested in public policy and have previously worked for the municipal governments of New York and Philadelphia, as well as for the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to UCLA I spent the 2020-2021 academic year as a PhD student in the Economics Department at Boston University.

While completing my MS in Economics and Computation at Duke University, I held two positions as a research assistant:

• I worked with Dr. Christopher Timmins on completing a long-term data validation project and other spatial data analysis projects for Duke’s Environmental Justice Lab.
• I worked in the lab of Dr. Rebecca Steorts, where I developed software for implementing Bayesian record linkage methods.

Education

• MS in Economics and Computation
  Duke University, 2020
• BA in Philosophy, Politics, Economics
  University of Pennsylvania, 2016