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. In 2024, I won the Walter Beach Award for "substantial contribution to strengthen the relationship between political science and public service".
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.