Research Interests

  • Fairness in criminal justice, especially policing
  • Social inequality and discrimination
  • Causal inference
  • Data science

Education

Nuffield College, University of Oxford
PhD in Sociology

  • Research Areas:
    • Computational Social Science
    • Statistical Inference on Networks
    • Gun Violence
    • Policing
  • Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

2017

St Cross College, University of Oxford
MSc in Sociology

2012

University of Sheffield
BA in Sociology with First-Class Honours

2011

Experience

New York University
Moore-Sloan Faculty Fellow, Center for Data Science

2020—2023

Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

  • Supervised by Andrew Papachristos

2019—2020

Yale University
Postdoctoral Associate, Institution for Social and Policy Studies

  • Supervised by Andrew Papachristos

2017—2019

Teaching

New York University

Undergraduate

DS-UA 202 Responsible Data Science

  • Technical course that covers data quality, algorithmic fairness, transparency of data and algorithms, ethics, privacy, and data protection
  • Find out more about the course here

2021—2022

DS-UA 111 Data Science for Everyone

  • Flagship course at the Center for Data Science
  • Designed for students without prior statistics or programming experience

2021—2022

Postgraduate

DS-GA 1017 Responsible Data Science

  • Co-taught with Julia Stoyanovich

2021—2022

University of Oxford

As Teaching Assistant:

  • Quantitative Methods in Politics and Sociology
  • Introduction to Statistics
  • Sociological Analysis
  • Sociology of Post-Industrial Societies