I am associate professor in the Department of Government at American University in Washington, DC (AU), where I am also associate director of the Center for Data Science. I also serve as Senior Social Scientist with The Lab @ DC, and Fellow in Methodology with the federal Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES). At AU, I am a Fellow of the Center for Data Science. I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University.
During academic years 2010-2012, I was a Scholar in Health Policy Research in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
I am an affiliate of the research network on Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). At Harvard, I was a doctoral fellow of the Inequality and Social Policy program, and a graduate associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).
My research interests center around statistical political methodology, with applications in American social policy. Methodologically, I develop and implement methods for political experiments, ecological data, missing data, causal inference, and geolocated data. Substantively, I am interested in the intersection of federalism, direct democracy, and the politics of old age pensions and health care.
In 2016, I co-hosted SLAMM! 2016 at American University.