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Work Experience
Capital One
Principal Data Scientist (People Analytics)2021-Present
- Developing company-wide quality of hire metric in order to optimize new hire quality and evalaute selection practices
- Created and put into production hiring algorithm to forecast the number of software engineers and business analysts
- Validated and monitored the performance of the CodeSignal Assessment used for all Software Engineer candidates
WeWork
Research and Applied Science Intern2020
- Designed and administered experiment to estimate and recommend revenue-maximizing prices at China WeWork locations
- Used a combination of machine learning, economics, and data visualization to aid in algorithmic pricing of office units
Education
PhD, Economics
Washington State UniversityMay 2021
- GPA: 4.0/4.0
- Focuses: Econometrics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
MS, Computer Science
Washington State UniversityMay 2021
- GPA: 4.0/4.0
- Focuses: Machine Learning, Data Science
BS, Kinesiology
Brigham Young UniversityMay 2012
Research Experience
Ben Cowan and Jon Yoder - Washington State University
Graduate Research Assistant2017-2019
- Devised causal inference approaches and analyses for various projects in Economics of Education and Developmental Economics under Ben Cowan and Jon Yoder.
- Built, cleaned, and ran econometric analyses on large datasets (10 million+ observations), high dimensional datasets (1000+ variables), and confidential datasets using Python, R, and Stata
Brent Hickman - The University of Chicago
Research Assistant2014
- Assisted in the design and implementation of affirmative action field experiment in Chicago that later appeared in FiveThirtyEight
- Built, cleaned, and analyzed datasets containing student data from several schools
Joe Price - Brigham Young University
Research Assistant2013-2014
- Hired and supervised 10 undergraduate students to assist in affirmative action field experiment in Utah
- Implemented various econometric techniques to evaluate topics in Labor and Economics of Education
Expertise
Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Statistics, Experiments, Data Visualization (D3.js)
Skills
Python, Javascript (D3.js), R, Stata, Spark, SQL, Git, Linux
Projects
Teaching Experience
Washington State University
Instructor2017-2020
Classes Taught:
- ECONS 506 - PhD Math Camp
- ECONS 526 - Master's Math Camp
- ECONS 321 - Sports Economics
- ECONS 102 - Introduction to Macroeconomics
Awarded School Of Economic Sciences 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award