About Me

I am currently a Research Scientist at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability with joint appointment at the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), working primarily with Marshall Burke and other members of the Environmental Change and Human Outcomes (ECHO) lab to estimate the impact of climate change on various measures of political behavior and accountability. Many of my current projects involve the use of remote sensing data and machine learning algorithms to create global, high-resolution data that can be used in downstream inference tasks. A development economics application of this data was recently featured as the cover article in Nature.

We are actively recruiting collaborators to leverage this new microspatial data in other domains, and have developed large databases of geolocated survey responses and high-resolution climate data with which to pair it, unlocking many interesting and unanswered questions at the intersection of climate science, political economy and comparative politics. To learn more, check out the collaborate page.

I received my PhD in Politics from Princeton University in August 2019. Prior to coming to Princeton, I earned an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge University. My dissertation committee members were Helen Milner, Kosuke Imai, Lucy Martin, and Leonard Wantchekon. Please use the navigation bar at the top of this site to see my research, contact information and updated curriculum vitae.

In 2021, after several years of increasingly severe symptoms, I was diagnosed with two rare but commonly co-occurring genetic disorders caused by mutations in the KIT and Kallikrein gene families, as well as a related disorder of the autonomic nervous system. These and similar chronic illnesses — degenerative, multi-system, and hard to diagnose — are particularly challenging to deal with as a graduate student and early career scholar. If you or someone you know is currently struggling to receive a diagnosis or having difficulties reconciling professional demands with their declining health, please reach out, I am always happy to share my experiences and lessons learned. For those who don’t feel comfortable revealing personal information, I maintain a by-invitation blog that touches on navigating the American healthcare system, finding the right doctors, and dealing with the professional and personal consequences of chronic illness.