I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Riverside.  

My research focuses on how institutions and information interact to affect political behavior.  In this research I primarily use experimental methods to identify the causal effects of these two factors. 

I am a Principal Investigator in the Everyday Respect project that is developing multimodal, multi-perspective machine learning models to study communication between officers and drivers during traffic stops.

I also study  how scholars can combine multiple research methods to improve the quality of research with a particular focus on the study of causal mechanisms . 

I received my PhD from UC San Diego. You can find my Google Scholar link here.