Quantitative Social & Behavioral Scientist | Data Analyst | Project Manager | Collaborator & Teammate | Research Communicator | Innovative Problem Solver


Summary: I am a mixed-method social scientist, with 10 years of experience using innovative research methods to answer questions and solve problems related to social attitudes, motivated decision-making, and impression formation. My experiences include extensive coding in R and integration of relational databases through tools like MySQL.
Professional history:
Research Fellow & Quantitative Data Lead, Social Perception Action and Motivation Lab, New York University
September 2023 – Present, New York, NY (https://www.spamlabresearch.com/)
• Trained and mentored lab researchers to facilitate skill-development and growth among research team
• Analyzed and visualized 15+ data sets to provide actionable insights to collaborators and stakeholders
• Presented research, submitted publications, and taught classes to communicate relevant scientific findings
Associate Consultant (Contract), DataWise Consulting
June 2024 – September 2024, Remote
• Designed data collection plans to maximize insights for organizational problem-solving for client
• Conducted 15 1-hour interviews with client constituents to identify strategies for organizational growth
• Reported findings to client leadership based on qualitative interview themes and organizational patterns
Graduate Research Manager, Social Cognition Lab, Northwestern University
September 2018 – August 2023, Evanston, IL
• Proposed innovative research ideas to secure $16,000+ in funding for collaborative research projects
• Trained research assistants on software systems to facilitate effective distribution of project responsibilities
• Collected, analyzed, and reported on 25+ data sets to provide original social psychosocial insights
Program Trainee, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
Summer 2021, Remote (https://sicss.io/)
• Joined social scientists from academia, industry, and government to engage in creative problem-solving
• Developed research ideas using text as data, web-scraping, digital field experiments, and machine learning
• Applied programming and coding skills to develop innovative research using computational methods
Research Associate, DataWise Consulting
Summer 2016 – Summer 2018, Grand Rapids, MI
• Hired, trained, and supervised research assistants to build a high-quality, collaborative research team
• Assigned project tasks to ensure timely execution of high-quality deliverables for 20+ client projects
• Collected and managed data, designed surveys, and produced reports to provide data-driven solutions
Core Research Skills:
- Quantitative Analysis – 7 years of experience using R to conduct both descriptive and complex inferential analyses, including ANOVA, regression, multi-level, and Bayes modeling, on 50+ unique datasets.
- Data Collection – 10 years of experience designing data collection strategies and recruiting online and in-person research participants, including over 100 surveys prepared using advanced techniques in Qualtrics.
- Science Communication – 8 years of experience, writing, professionally reviewing, and publishing research articles, teaching classes of up to 200 students, and presenting research at 20+ invited presentations.
- Data Visualization – 10 years of experience using R and Tableau to create interactive data visualizations of survey and operational data, and maximizing impact by delivering user-friendly visualization decks.
- Data Management – 9 years of experience integrating relational datasets through R or MySQL to extract applied insights across various waves of data collection and highlight key relationships between data sets.