RESEARCH PROJECTS—————————————————
FUNDED ASSISTANTSHIPS
Research human trafficking and homeless youth in NYC
Research Assistant, Funded by NSF # 1935602
- Designed a survey for qualitative research data collection currently being deployed to 500 homeless youth
- Developed a sampling mechanism for prevalence estimation of homeless youth in NYC
- Leveraged secondary data to produce a dataset on homeless youth and their needs in NYC
- Collaborated with homelessness organizations and the NYC Mayor’s Office to inform analysis
Research on the U.S. immigration system
Research Assistant, Funded by NSF # 1825348
- Applied discrete event simulation and data science methodologies to analyze, understand, and build models involving the backlog of cases in the immigration court system
- Assembled a database of data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Conducted exploratory data analysis on millions of court proceedings from 1985-2019
Research on human trafficking (HT) in Nepal
Research Assistant, Funded by NSF # 1841893
- Analyzed data from a nonprofit organization to extract insights on individuals at risk of experiencing HT
- Developed a data envelopment analysis model to evaluate the effectiveness of their current operations across 7 different locations from 2016 to 2019
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