About Me

I am a computational social scientist and a 5th-year PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Colorado, Boulder (graduating in June 2025), where I am fortunate to be supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and I am co-advised by Aaron Clauset and Dan Larremore. I am also getting a Master’s in Education Policy, advised by Kevin Welner.

I’m interested in identifying and describing inequalities in social systems such as in health, politics, education and careers, and informing policy decisions that address those inequalities. My PhD research is broadly focused on quantifying barriers to and retention within the scientific and technical workforce for historically excluded populations. I enjoy using a diverse range of data science and social science methods to conduct large-scale, interdisciplinary administrative, survey, network, and text analyses, which often reveal patterns not visible at a smaller scale.

Prior to grad school, I worked as a research engineer at IBM Research, and studied computer science at Indiana University, where I developed an early-warning system to detect dyslexia in children’s handwriting.

Upcoming

Fall: Giving an invited talk at the University of Colorado Boulder Academic Leadership Conference and 2 contributed talks at the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

News

I am a data science fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau this summer!

JUL 2024 ∙ Gave two talks at the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation

JUN 2024 ∙ New paper in PNAS Nexus!

MAY 2024 ∙ Honored to have recieved an Achievement Reward for College Scientists and an Annual Outstanding Paper Award from CU Boulder.

MAR 2024 ∙ I enjoyed participaing in the Atlanta Academy on Science and Innovation Policy!

FEB 2024 ∙ New preprint: Gendered devaluation underlies faculty retention

FEB 2024 ∙ Gave a talk [slides] at the Academic Analytics Research Center

DEC 2023 ∙ Presented my work to CU Office of Faculty Affairs to help them improve their faculty retention efforts

NOV 2023 ∙ Passed my dissertation proposal defense and I am officially a PhD candidate!

OCT 2023 ∙ New paper in Science Advances! Covered by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Science Careers and Nature News. Featured as an exemplary paper in social and interdisciplinary sciences by Science Advances .

OCT 2023 ∙ New preprint: Book bans in political context: Evidence from U.S. schools. Such a fun collaboration started at a summer school!

JUL 2023 ∙ Gave a talk [slides] and presented a poster at the International Conference on Computational Social Science

MAY 2023 ∙ New preprint: Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty. Gave a talk at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy [slides]

JUL 2022 ∙ Gave a talk and presented a poster at the International Conference on Computational Social Science

JUL 2022 ∙ Gave a talk at the Women in Network Science and Diversify NetSci Satellite

JUN 2022 ∙ I enjoyed participating in the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science

JUN 2022 ∙ Gave a talk and presented a poster at the International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation

MAY 2022 ∙ I passed my prelims and finished year 2!