Senior Data Scientist

Jun 2024 – Present · Chicago, IL - USA

Led methodological development for Dynata’s Ad Solutions data science team, designing and productionizing causal inference, survey weighting, and machine learning workflows in R, Python, and SQL to measure advertising effectiveness using large-scale survey and exposure data.
Developed an automated panel-equivalence framework combining meta-analysis, classification, and permutation testing, enabling defensible transitions of client tracking studies while preserving data quality and continuity.
Refactored an end-to-end difference-in-differences pipeline, reducing analyst touch time by more than 90% while adding doubly robust estimation and other methodological safeguards; improved precision by more than 40% and reduced bias by more than 50%.

Sep 2021 – May 2024 · Chicago, IL - USA

Served as lead methodologist for Nielsen’s 750,000-member panel, providing scientific leadership across questionnaire design, sampling, weighting, panel operations, measurement validation, and audience measurement methodology.
Led research on co-viewing attribution, integrating household viewing records, individual panel data, and survey measures to evaluate competing measurement approaches and implement resulting methodological changes within Nielsen’s production measurement system.
Designed and analyzed large scale panel experiments and validation studies to assess panel health, improve participant engagement and retention, reduce measurement error, and strengthen data quality.

Data Scientist

Jun 2020 – Sep 2021 · Washington, D.C. - USA

Directed methodological strategy for a survey research firm serving political campaigns, advocacy organizations, and nonprofit clients, overseeing sampling, weighting, statistical analysis, visualization, and client delivery.
Applied regression, classification, clustering, feature selection, and experimental methods to identify drivers of attitudes and behavior, evaluate message effectiveness, segment audiences, and translate findings into actionable recommendations for campaign and advocacy strategy.
Standardized and automated research production workflows in R, built custom Shiny dashboards for interactive reporting, and supervised and mentored two Data Associates and an intern, improving methodological consistency and delivery across concurrent projects.

Sep 2018 – Jun 2020 · Evanston, IL - USA

Taught courses on American government, introductory statistics, and research methods as the primary instructor: created syllabi, scripted and delivered lectures, devised classroom activities and evaluations.

Sep 2013 – Feb 2020 · Evanston, IL - USA

Specializations in American political behavior and quantitative research methodology. Completed coursework in probability and statistics, linear regression, analysis of categorical data, advanced econometrics, design and analysis of experiments, structural equation modeling, causal inference, text analysis, and machine learning. Received competitively awarded grant funding and published original solo- and co-authored research in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Additional training:
- Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (2019)
- Python Programming & Data Science Bootcamp (2015)
- Northwestern-Duke Workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference (2015)
- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research (2014)

Sep 2014 – Dec 2019 · Evanston, IL - USA

Used Stata, R, and Python to reshape, clean, and recode data, scrape data from web APIs, conduct statistical analyses, and create visualizations; generated research proposals and survey questionnaires; contracted with vendors to field surveys.

Sep 2017 – Jan 2018 · Chicago, IL - USA

Assisted with prospect research, call time preparation, compliance, and reporting for an Illinois gubernatorial primary campaign.

Feb 2013 – Sep 2013 · Cleveland, OH - USA

Performed primary and secondary research – drawing on sources including government databases, trade publications, surveys, and interviews – to identify, analyze, and forecast industry trends.
Authored 300 to 500-page reports summarizing market size and share, product segmentation, market segmentation, important industry developments, and industry structure.

Jun 2012 – Dec 2012 · Georgetown, DE - USA

Managed a comprehensive field program in Sussex County, Delaware: supervised two field offices and all field staff, interns, and volunteers; oversaw targeted voter contact and get-out-the-vote efforts; liaised with local and statewide campaigns; advised state legislative candidates on campaign strategy.

Jul 2011 – May 2012 · Medan, North Sumatra - Indonesia

Designed English language curriculum for an Indonesian public high school and taught English to 300 tenth grade students; partnered with the United States Consulate in North Sumatra to promote English language education opportunities and developed programming for an English Teachers’ Forum.

Jul 2010 – Jul 2011 · Portage County, OH - USA

Built organizational capacity to fight poverty in Portage County, Ohio: wrote grants and oversaw volunteer efforts in support of education-related antipoverty initiatives including after-school mentoring, tutoring, and college access programs.

Aug 2006 – Jun 2010 · Meadville, PA - USA

Political Science & English (double major).
Graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Awarded the Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Prize for the best senior thesis in an interdisciplinary field.