I am a Data Scientist specializing in applied social statistics, NLP, interdisciplinary collaboration, and public speaking. I am also a founding Board Member of The Computational Democracy Project, a non-profit which stewards the open source platform, Polis, and supports its usage in democratic deliberative processes across the world. Previously, I was a Fellow and Assistant Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan where I researched the origins of Bitcoin's economic value in online communities and used computational modeling to investigate the emergence of cultural dynamics from individual cognitive processing.
Listed skills include Sociology, Economic Sociology, Multivariate Statistics, Quantitative Research, and 6 others.