Welcome –– I am an incoming Applied Research Statistician at Harvard Law School.
I received my Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University
of Southern California (USC), where I also served as a Graduate Research Associate in the
Democracy Lab and Security and Political Economy Lab (SPEC). Prior
to joining Harvard, I worked as a Survey Statistician at the U.S. Census
Federal Statistical Research Data
Center (FSRDC) branch at USC. My research and professional interests span political
institutions, computational social science, and political methodology, with a particular
emphasis on race and ethnicity.
Some of my solo and collaborative work is forthcoming in the Journal of Race,
Ethnicity, and Politics and the Journal of Experimental Political Science. See
my Research page for more details on these works and my current
projects.
I am also the creator of TextViz
Studio, a platform that simplifies complex computational text analysis and stastical
programming for social scientists by offering intuitive, no-code tools. Designed to
lower technical barriers, TextViz Studio empowers users to explore, visualize, and
interpret statistical and textual data without programming knowledge, making advanced
data science methods more accessible to the broader research community.
In addition to my current role, I am a Researcher with the
Everyday Respect Project at USC,
where I analyze how police-community interactions influence residents' perceptions of
safety and trust in law enforcement in Los Angeles. I earned my B.A. in Political Science from
California State University, Long Beach,
and my Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) from the University of Southern California’s
Sol Price School of Public Policy, with a concentration
in Applied Econometrics for Public Policy analysis.
Outside of academia, I enjoy studying languages, traveling, and amateur photography.
I've shared some of my travel photos in the Photography section — I hope they offer a bit
of amusement and inspiration.
