About Me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE), 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 accountability.

I specialize in comparative political economy and causal inference with a strong regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Many of my current projects involve the use of remote sensing data and machine learning algorithms, particularly convolutional neural nets, to create global, high-resolution data that can be used for downstream inference tasks. A development economics application of this data was recently featured as the cover article in Nature.

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. I completed my undergraduate education at the University of California, Irvine, where I received a B.A. in Political Science. 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.