Welcome!
Short Academic Biography:
I am a doctoral candidate in
Sociology at
the
University of California, Irvine. I have MA degrees in
Sociology
and
Demography from UCI, a MS in
Statistics
from
Northwestern University, and a BS in
Mathematics
from the
University of Oregon. Currently, I am a Graduate Student Researcher
for Professor
Carter T. Butts, a member of the
Networks,
Computation, and Social Dynamics (NCASD) Lab, and a Graduate Student Fellow in the
Center for
Networks and Relational Analysis. My research lies at the intersection of sociology, social network analysis, and demography and has been
published (or forthcoming) in such journals as Sociological Methodology, the Journal of Statistical Software, Demographic Research, and
Social Networks.
Research Summary:
My research is centered in two primary areas: the first is social network analysis, where my work includes
research on the effects of geography and time on social processes (and large-scale social structure) and the measurement and sampling
of social networks; the second is the field of demography, where I look to integrate spatial analysis and social network analysis with
classic and formal demographic theory. Underlying both of these themes is a strong interest in developing statistical techniques for
application to social science problems, especially social network analysis and demography.