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Arlington, VA, US

• Working as an independent research and data automation consultant
• Building tools in Visual Basic to help organize Excel data more efficiently
• Assisting with background research for published opinion columns on subjects ranging from legacy admissions to corporate tax rates
• Organizing and preparing FEC campaign finance data in R to track and categorize out-of-state contributions for competitive 2024 U.S. Senate races

Washington D.C.

• Oversaw on-site office logistics, including planning & coordinating Healthsperien’s 10-year anniversary celebration
• Built macros in Visual Basic to optimize data collection efficiency for administrative staff
• Used NIH studies to prepare epidemiological research memos on subjects such as value-based mental healthcare
• Sorted and catalogued client contact information in R to track data and generate email lists

• Conducted quantitative analysis on Twitter data related to the Hong Kong protests using web scraping tools & Excel
• Co-authored & presented a report on Chinese soft power to clients at Joint Special Operations Command (NC)
• Filmed and produced a video trailer on Chinese military strategy as part of a JSOC policy proposal
• Helped install robotic equipment for clients at Fair Oaks Farms (Fair Oaks, IN) to expand their visitor attractions

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Reported on Belarus’ democracy movement and published an interview with opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
• Clearly communicated complex domestic and foreign policy subjects through short video explainers
• Used social media marketing tools to assess online performance growth

• Co-authored a book on digital disinformation, using computational analysis techniques to assess the Russian-language media landscape and track disinformation campaigns in Eastern Europe
• Ran Keyness relative frequency tests on Russian state media datasets to assess linguistic similarities among outlets
• Helped conduct SVD topic modeling on English, Russian, and Chinese-language Twitter data using C++ and SQL
• Wrote intelligence reports for the U.S. Office of Naval Research on Chinese economic expansion and military strategy

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Wrote research packets on subjects including the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the 2020 Belarus protests
• Submitted “Daily Packets” with summaries of new English and Russian-language commentary on Russian internal and external politics

Master'S Degree, Politics & Data Science

Bachelors, Business Fellows, Computer Science, And Mathematics