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I grew up in the West Coast, and earned my bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Washington, Seattle. I then worked at Amazon and Google as a full stack software engineer for a few years. Recently, I earned my PhD from the University of Michigan, School of Information. I'm currently working as a Data Engineer at the Center for Informed Public (CIP) at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Outside of work, I enjoy basketball, badminton, running, weight lifting, horror films, Dungeons and Dragons with my close friends, and teaching my pets new tricks. I have also solo backpacked in Asia and Europe for half a year, and contemplated being a wandering comedian for a time.
I'm broadly interested in data science for social good, and I'm particularly interested in complex sociotechnological systems with vast user-generated content. Thus far, I have published numerous manuscripts in the field of misinformation and online political communications. My projects rely on extensive social media datasets and a diverse range of computational methods including natural language processing (topic modeling, word2vec, entity extraction, NLTK, BERT), network analysis (centrality, network casc