I am a doctoral candidate in Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, with concentrations in Policy Design, Analysis, Evaluation, and Public and Nonprofit Management and a research assistant at the Center of Professional Excellence. I conduct research aimed at understanding how various policies, programs, tools, and institutions affect individual and organizational performance and outcomes. I teach undergraduate courses in the key functional areas of public management and policy and provide technical assistance with applied research projects. As an applied researcher, I have worked on a range of research and technical assistance projects with state and local public agencies. I have been involved in research design, data collection, data analysis, and customer report development.

Throughout my career, I have developed a broad set of technical skills and expertise necessary at all stages of research project planning and execution, from formulating research questions to collecting, analyzing, and sharing results. Particularly, I can develop both observational and experimental research designs, build complex survey instruments for online data collection, and use tools for quick and efficient automated processing of large volumes of paper surveys with optic scan technology. In addition to that, I have experience creating tools for automated data extraction, such as web crawling and scraping, to efficiently obtain large samples of data from the web.

Having a passion for data science and analytics, I am proficient in statistical data analysis, data programming, data visualization, and product development using R software ecosystem. These skills allow me to develop complex and reproducible data analyses, dynamic and professionally looking reports in a wide range of outputs and formats, interactive documents, dashboards, and presentations. As a data enthusiast, I enjoy teaching courses in statistical data analysis, constantly learn new skills and methods, and always look forward to new professional challenges.