Welcome!

I'm a Program Manager at BlueLabs Analytics. I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania. I received a PhD in Government and an MS in Statistics and Data Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

During my time in academia, I studied formal institutional design, both within and beyond the United States. Legal documents - such as laws, constitutions, or treaties - often contain institutional rules, which describe who can do what, when, and to whom. Unfortunately, dense legal texts are difficult for non-experts to interpret. In my work, I used machine learning and natural language processing methods to unlock the information contained in these documents, which allowed me to study the political and policy origins of formal institutional design choices.

My research has been published in journals including the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.