About me
I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations and a M.S. in Applied Economics and Econometrics from the University of Souther California. I currently work as a Senior Applied Statistical Analyst (Senior Client/Branch Insight Analyst/Applied Statistical Analyst) for Edward Jones.
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My academic and industry research revolves around corporate activism/CSR, corporate strategy, multi-stakeholder approaches, and participatory/inclusive governance in product and policy design. I have 8+ years experience working with complex sets of stakeholders (politicians, policymakers, businesses, think tanks, organizations) to create and update programs and products that aim to improve the lives of various populations. Currently, at Edward Jones, my focus is on optimizing rollouts of financial tools and products, planning, and executing segmentation strategies of such tools and products as well as assessing their effectiveness and impact.
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I draw upon a broad set of qualitative and quantitive methods. My dissertation project used social network analysis and network statistical models (exponential random graph models), a survey experiment, as well as evidence from stakeholder interviews and fieldwork in Germany. As a mixed-methods researcher in the industry I have heavily relied upon surveys, A/B tests, benchmark studies, cognitive testing, focus groups, interviews, usability testing as well as various supervised and unsupervised ML techniques including topic modeling, sentiment analysis, text similarity, dictionaries, and random forests.
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