Academic & Professional Activities

Serious work, with real-world impact

Work Experience

Psychometrician

Office of State Assessment, New York State Education Department | Albany, NY
2024-2025

Analyzed large-scale assessment data and interpreted results, coordinated program analyses, developed automated workflows for data processing and analysis, and created visualizations to effectively communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Research Associate

Institutional Research Department, Schenectady County Community College, SUNY | Albany, NY
2023

Implemented logistic regression and machine learning models based on more than twenty years of academic records to predict student retention, coordinated institutional research initiatives, and disseminated research findings to support data-informed planning and decision-making.

Awards

New York State/Graduate Student Employees Union Professional Development Program (PDP) Funds

New York

2026

Dean’s Excellence Award in Research

School of Education, University at Albany, SUNY

2026

American Educational Research Association Travel Award

The American Educational Research Association (AERA)

2026

National Council on Measurement in Education Travel Grant

The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)

2025

Jean Edgecumbe Groff ’38 Graduate Scholarship

University at Albany, SUNY

2025

Joshua S. Smith & Yun dih Chia-Smith Professional Development Travel Award

University at Albany, SUNY

2024

Alice Clark Long Scholarship

University at Albany, SUNY

2023

Van Slyke Scholarship

University at Albany, SUNY

2021

Service

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Reviewer

Present

The Journal of Experimental Education

Reviewer

Present

Computers in Human Behavior

Reviewer

Present

Graduate Student Organization of Educational Psychology and Methodology, University at Albany, SUNY

Vice President

2022 – 2023

Graduate Student Organization of the Sky Happiness Club, University at Albany, SUNY

Assembly Representative

2022 – 2023