Arnold Lau Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Wrote R code to wrangle, analyze and visualize data for Pew Research Center's ongoing studies of the effects of SMS reminders on response rates, the accuracy of nonprobability samples versus federal benchmarks and their sensitivity to various methods of adjustment, the tradeoff between design effect and sample performance vs. known population parameters for various levels of weight trimming, panel attrition, and the performance of various pollsters and aggregators over the recently concluded U.S. presidential primaries.

Worked with a team under Dr. Robert Y. Shapiro at the Department of Political Science in aggregating monthly national-level public opinion survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation on U.S. healthcare and health reform policy in order to produce state-level estimates.

Researched and wrote chapter drafts for a book on the history of Muslims in the Philippine South.

Carried out research, survey design, and translation for a study evaluating the impact of a government program integrating former rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front into the Philippine Army. Cleaned army roster data using Stata (removing duplicates, checking for unusual fields, etc.) Translated, tested and conducted survey fieldwork for the pilot of a study evaluating the impact of credit-scoring loans to small and medium enterprises.

Organized content and logistics for capacity-building programs for government officials and security forces on the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration paradigm accompanying the peace processes with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other groups. Conducted firearms processing and livelihood assistance for former rebels affiliated with the Cordillera People's Liberation Army.

Summarized reports from overseas labor offices on prevailing wage rates, housing and food allowance for migrant workers, classified by trade/profession, into chewable form.

Documented the entire program and summarized academic research into briefs for workshop use.

Master’S Degree, Quantitative Methods In The Social Sciences

Studying applied data science, space-time data analysis, data mining, data visualization, social network analysis, survey methods, machine.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Development Studies, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Development Society, campus newspaperStudied economics, political science and sociology as applied.

Asian Studies

Spent one term abroad studying Japanese language, history, culture and political economy.