Background

Before becoming a data scientist at Google, I held two postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University, a Thinking Matters Fellowship and then a Science, Engineering, and Education Fellowship, the latter in the department of Statistics. Through these positions I taught a variety of courses on statistics, probability, data science, cryptography, and social science.

I originally hail from Stony Brook, New York. I graduated from Swarthmore College with honors in political science and history, which I also studied as an exchange student at the Free University of Berlin. I hold a master’s of statistics and a PhD in government from the University of Texas at Austin. I also studied at the International Institute for the Study of French in Strasbourg, France. Before heading to graduate school, I worked as a canvass director in New York and Philadelphia.