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CURRENT POSITIONS
Microsoft Research, New York, NY (May 2012 – Present) Economist, Senior Principal Researcher
University of Pennsylvania, (2021-Present) Principal Investigator, CSS Lab’s PennMap

PAST POSITIONS
Yahoo! Research, New York, NY (May 2011 – May 2012) Post-Doctoral Economist
New York University, (2015-2017), Member, Social Media and Political Participation
Columbia University, (2012-2015) Fellow, Applied Statistics Center
University of Pennsylvania, (2014-2015) Fellow, Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies

EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA (July 2006 – May 2011)
Ph.D. in Applied Economics (Business and Public Policy concentration)
Advisor: Justin Wolfers, Secondary Advisor: Sunshine Hillygus
Brown University, Providence, RI (September 1998 – May 2002)
Sc.B. in Civil Engineering and B.A. in History
Cumulative GPA 3.9/4.0
Honors: Magna Cum Laude (highest as Brown bestows), Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi

RESEARCH FUNDING
Recent Data Share Agreements: Target Smart, Catalist, Pollfish, 605, Nielsen, TVEyes
Harmony Labs: 2017-2019
Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz PhD Fellowship: 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship Award: 2010

POPULAR WRITING
Blogger for PredictWise 2010-2020
Other Regular Writing: Huffington Post, Washington Post, MSNBC, Yahoo!, Wall Street Journal, NYT

REFEREE (within last few years)
American Economic Review (AER), Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), Nature, Science Advances, Nature Human Behavior, American Political Science Review (APSR), Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ), Quarterly Journal of Political Science (QJPS), Social Science Quarterly, Management Science, Economics and Computation, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Policy and Internet, PC for MAGG, AAPOR Posters, SJDM Posters, PC for IJCAI, PC for QPOL, Southern Economic Journal, Mercatus Center, etc.

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Nov 2010 • University of Kansas’s Business School, Jan 2011 • Santa Clara University’s Business School, Jan 2011 • eBay Research Lab, Jan 2011 • Queens College, Feb 2011 • Yahoo! Research, Feb 2011 • Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, Apr 2011 • University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business, Feb 2013 • Duke University, April 2013 • Fordham, Oct 2014 • Stanford’s GSB, Oct 2014 • Santa Clara’s Business School, Oct 2014 • University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Feb 2014 • University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Oct 2014 • New York University, Dec 2014 • New York Federal Reserve, 2015 • University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, 2015 • Columbia Business School, 2016 • Stanford’s MS&E, 2016 • Cornell Roper Center, 2017 • University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, 2017 • New York University, 2018 • Cal Poly, 2019 • Google, 2019 • Nielsen, 2019 • National Academy of Science, 2019 • National Academy of Science, 2020 • Harvard, 2021 • DARPA, 2021 • Safe Graph, 2021 • MIT, 2022 • Nielsen, 2022 • Poynter, 2022 • Johns Hopkins, 2022 • Cornell Tech, 2023 • Michigan’ School of Information, 2024 • Cornell, 2024 • Rutgers, 2024

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (regular attendance)
Political Science: APSA (American Political Science Association) • MPSA (Midwestern Political Science) • AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research)
Behavioral Finance/Economics: SJDM (Judgment and Decision Making) • BDRM (Behavioral Decision Research in Management)/SPUDM (Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making) • ACR (Association for Consumer Research) • EC (Economics and Computatio) • NBER Political Economy and Market Design Workshops • AEA (American Economic Association) Computational Social Science: IC2S2 (International Conference on Computational Social Science) • CODE@MIT (Confrerence on Digital Experimentation)

QUOTED IN POPULAR PRESS (within last few years)
New York Times, New York Magazine, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Time, PBS (NewsHour), Yahoo!, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Bloomberg, Forbes, Wall Street Journal Radio, National Journal, CBS Radio, DCist, Tomorrow Magazine, CNET, GigaOM, IEEE Spectrum, Daily Beast, Daily Caller, The Verge, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, ING, Boston Herald, Business Week, Reuters, Daily Kos, Fox News.com, Washington Times, G4TV, Popular Science, Techweek Europe, Xconomy, Daily News, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (pre-graduate school)
President – DemStore – Washington, DC (January 2003 – June 2006)
Largest political materials consulting firm in USA: design, production, inventory, distribution and direct sales of materials – merchandizing for all major Democratic presidential campaigns in 2004
Materials Director – Tony Sanchez for Governor – Austin, TX (June 2002 – December 2002)
Civil Engineering Intern – Consolidated Edison – New York, NY (Summer 2001)
Opposition Research Intern – New York State Democratic Committee - New York City (Summer 2000)
White House Intern – White House - Washington D.C. (Summer 1999)