PhD, Economics
Doctoral minor in Quantitative Psychology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Biography
About
I am an applied economist, quantitative research designer, and educator based in St. Louis.
I research trade and place-based policy, develop analytical software, and teach quantitative methods.
Current practice
Applied economics, quantitative research design, and education
My research asks how a country should be located in a trade model, how equilibrium can be represented through optimal transport, and whether a rural financing pattern survives comparison within the same intermediary.
Current work includes trade research using night lights and population, a sole-authored study of rural financing in the New Markets Tax Credit, economic theory connecting equilibrium and optimal transport, and public tools for quantitative learning.
I also build Yellowjacket, a browser audio workbench, and work on 3D oceanographic mapping, current-field analysis, and scientific visualization.
Advisory work has included Saudi industrial-sector and import-localization diagnostics and a North America-wide electric-vehicle manufacturing site analysis for Carnegie Mellon University and Toyota Research Institute.
EducationPhD, Economics · Georgia Tech, 2024 · Doctoral minor in Quantitative Psychology
Education
Economics, measurement, geography, and computation
MS, Geographic Information Science and Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
MS, Economics
Georgia Institute of Technology
MA, Economics
Indiana University Bloomington
MSc, Specialized Economic Analysis (Public Policy)
Barcelona School of Economics
BA, Economics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Teaching and public practice
Institutional teaching and independent work
In teaching, I move among words, equations, tables, graphs, and code until the logic is clear and internally consistent.
I have taught as instructor of record at Georgia Tech, supported teaching at Duke and Indiana, taught online microeconomics and macroeconomics, and worked independently with learners and researchers.
Current tutoring figures and the complete institutional chronology appear on Teaching & Coaching; Wyzant and private-practice hours are reported separately.
Leadership, awards, and serviceTeaching leadership, academic service, and documented contributions
Leadership and service
Appointments and awards
- National Network for Critical Technology Assessment
- Additional contributor to the semiconductor demonstration in the 2023 report Securing America's Future; not an author of the full report.
- Georgia Tech Graduate Student Government
- Vice President for Campus Services, 2019–20; Graduate Senator, 2018–20; Senator of the Year, 2020.
- Teaching leadership
- Inaugural Graduate Teaching Fellow cohort, 2018–19; designed professional-development curriculum and co-led orientation.
- Teaching award
- Georgia Tech Economics Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, 2023.
- Academic service
- Ad hoc referee, Journal of Economic Theory.
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