I am a sixth-year Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. I hold a Senior Data Science Fellow position at the Data Lab (D-Lab) at UC Berkeley. In previous years, I held a fellowship with the National Institutes of Health with the Department of Demography at UC Berkeley, supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Branch for Child and Human Development.

I earned my Bachelor of Science in Sociology from the University of South Carolina, where I received training in quantitative methodology. During my time at South Carolina, I co-authored an article with Drs. Carla Pfeffer and Jennifer Augustine on the amount of time same-sex couples with children spend in activities related to health and well-being.

As an economic sociologist in training, I am broadly interested in market politics, market building, and the use of machine learning tools (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in economic action. More specifically, I am curious about the various strategies market actors use to reduce uncertainty in market transactions. I employ nationally representative data, causal inference, and computational methods to investigate these topics.

I have spent the bulk of my graduate career developing a robust set of statistical and computational skills. In 2020, I contributed to the CenSoc project at the Department of Demography at UC Berkeley, involving the linkage of the 1940 Census to files from the Social Security Administration. Additionally, I mentored students within the Cal-ADAR program, guiding them in using R and data science to engage in quantitative social science research. Furthermore, I have taught courses in Data Science at the Advanced Talent Development Program (ATDP), both domestically and internationally, covering subjects such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and ethics.

In 2023, I became a Data Science Fellow at the Social Sciences Data Lab (D-Lab) at UC Berkeley. In 2024, I won the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in the Department of Sociology. I also actively participate in mentoring through programs like ATDP and Cal-ADAR, which focus on guiding advanced students at UC Berkeley in their academic pursuits.