Experience

SMU Guildhall
• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Jun 2023 - Present


Santa Fe Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Fellow at Foundations and Applications of Humanities Analytics

  • Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

  Supported by: National Endowment of the Humanities Grant (no. HT-272418-20) I plan, teach, and evaluate workshops on text mining and data analytics for humanities data. I foster an inclusive and intellectually rigorous classroom for researchers with diverse backgrounds, from senior faculty to early career graduate students. Supported by: National Endowment of the Humanities Grant (no. HT-272418-20) I plan, teach, and evaluate workshops on text mining and data analytics for humanities data. I foster an inclusive and intellectually rigorous classroom for researchers with diverse backgrounds, from senior faculty to early career graduate students.



Southern Methodist University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead at the Human Trafficking Project

  • May 2022 - May 2023

  Supported by: National Institute of Justice (Bill H.R. 2471) I am designing a machine learning system to improve fine-grained, predictive named entity recognition. I am leveraging human computation gaming to train our system. I am responsible for game design and implementation. I am collaborating with researchers from four university departments and in conversation with Congress and not-for-profis. I offer guidance to two Master’s students at the Guildhall video game development department. I perform various leadership roles including: a) creating new documents (e.g. data sharing agreements), b) hiring, and c) training researchers. Show less

• Research Assistant for "Toward a History of the Associative-Developmental State"

  • Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

  I hired and collaborated with an ArcGIS specialist to make historical maps of New York and its labor movements over time. I geocoded and mapped addresses using geopandas, geopy, and folium.

• Research Assistant for "A History of Early and Modern China"

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

  I stored and processed csv data for time series analysis. I topic modeled debates from Hong Kong’s legislative council to show change throughout the 20th-century.

• Technical Lead for Global Urbanization and Housing Affordability: Poverty, Property and the City

  • Sep 2018 - Sep 2021

  Supported by: National Science Foundation Grant (no. 1520103), Southern Methodist University I developed the first app that applies advanced natural language processing techniques to the c19 British Parliamentary debates for research. I used frameworks like gensim and spaCy. I pioneered an extraction method (for analyzing subject-object relationships) with higher accuracy than existing methods (re: Jo Guldi’s forthcoming book, The Dangerous Art of Text Mining).I stored and processed data sets of 100-200 years of historical data in the form of tables, matrices, and n-grams for time-series analysis. I ran language models locally and on a Unix supercomputer. I hired, trained, and managed a team of 3-6 undergraduates from CS, public policy, and history to create a system for disambiguating speakers in 100 years of historical data. Show less