EDUCATION
University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | 2019/01 - 2023/12
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
advised by Daniel Larremore
concentration: computational social science, hierarchies, networks
Santa Fe Institution | Santa Fe, New Mexico | summer 2019
Complex Systems Summer School student
University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | fall 2017 - summer 2019
Master of Science, Computer Science
with a focus on Natural Language Processing, Text
Tufts University, College of Arts and Sciences | Medford, MA | fall 2011 - spring 2015
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
PUBLICATIONS
Competition in Online Dating Markets | 2024
in preparation
Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty | 20240110
in review
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty | 20231020
Science Advances
Subfield prestige and gender inequality among US computing faculty | 20221122
Communications of the ACM
Labor advantages drive the greater productivity of faculty at elite universities | 20221118
Science Advances
Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention | 20220921
Nature
webweb: a tool for creating, displaying, and sharing interactive network visualizations on the web | 2019
Journal of Open Source Software
Device-Agnostic Indoor Positioning for Mobile Phones | December 2015
2015 IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
* the authors contributed equally
EXPERIENCE
Visiting Research Assistant | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | 2020/07 - present
- for Elizabeth Bruch
- researching preference hierarchies in online dating
Research Assistant | University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | spring 2019 - fall 2023
- for Daniel Larremore
Teaching Assistant | University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | fall 2019
- for Daniel Larremore's Network Analysis and Modeling class
Research Assistant | University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | 2018/01 - 2018/08
- for Chenhao Tan
Software Developer | athenahealth | Watertown, MA | 2015/08 - 2017/06
- backend engineering work to evaluate patient outcomes across the electronic health records platform
summer researcher | Tufts University | Medford, MA | summer 2014
- worked on computational complexity in music with Anselm Blumer
Data Analyst | Kennet Partners | San Mateo, CA | summer 2011
- interned at a Hedge Fund researching bootstrapped companies for investment potential
PROJECTS
Infinite Jest Networks | Boulder, CO | fall 2018
- exploring David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest through temporal character co-occurrence networks
webweb | Boulder, CO | fall 2018 - present
- a tool for creating embeddable visualizations from python/Matlab
textual style over time | Boulder, CO | fall 2018
- how does writing style change?
wisecrackings.com | Boulder, CO | spring 2018 - fall 2018
- a website for movie jokes and quotes built to create a dataset for use in a machine-in-the-loop humor assistant
pun detection and location | Boulder, CO | fall 2017
- a suite of classifiers to determine if a sentence contains a pun and, if so, which word within that sentence is the "pun word"
TALKS AND LECTURES
Faculty Hiring in the U.S. Academic Labor Market | July 2021
- for Network Science 2021
The Structure and Construction of the U.S. Academic System | July 2020
- for the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
guest lecture: Sampling Networks | October 2019
- for the Computer Science 5351, Network Analysis and Modeling at the University of Colorado, Boulder
guest lecture: Configuration Model | September 2019
- for the Computer Science 5351, Network Analysis and Modeling at the University of Colorado, Boulder
how to do things with words | slides | April 2019
- for the University of Colorado, Boulder's Data Science course
narratives, networks, and art | slides | January 2019
- for the University of Colorado, Boulder's Graduate Research Exposition
POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Revealing Narrative Structure through Temporal Co-occurrence Networks | 2019
K. Hunter Wapman, Daniel B. Larremore- Network Science 2019
- Graduate Research Exposition, University of Colorado, Boulder
Device-Agnostic Indoor Positioning for Mobile Phones | Spring 2015
- PIMRC ‘15
- Tufts University Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium
- New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
the Society of Young Network Scientists | August 2019 - Fall 2023
Member of the Board (Membership Officer)
the Colorado chapter of the Society of Young Network Scientists | October 2019
Co-founder
ACTIVITIES
Awards 2023: Computer Science Department Research Paper Award
Half Ironman 2018
Marathon 2018, 2016
Olympic Triathlon 2017
Half Marathon 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Classical Piano 2011 - 2015
Edited Open Source Math and Physics Textbooks for the CK12 Foundation 2008, 2009
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do 2007
Community Service in Kedougou, Senegal and Darjeeling, India