In Jan 2022, Melanie and I wrote a manuscript, titled “Thriving in Graduate School as an International Student: How to Combat the Hidden Costs and Barriers,” on what are potential costs and barriers that international students face that might not be immediately recognizable. This was rejected from PS, and we... [Read More]

In Oct 2020, I shared a rough draft of what I wrote up as a guideline on political science R1 job market for Caltech graduate students as I prepared to graduate. Seeing how many people came up to me and said this was helpful, especially the month-to-month to-do list, I... [Read More]

I gave a talk today at R-Ladies Dallas via Zoom. The meetup was recorded and a video is now available here. The slides are here. TL;DR you should not do the following things for reproducibility within and across research projects: Not working in an R project Not using Git (version... [Read More]

The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, which I am part of, issued an advisory PDF titled “Making Sure That Your Vote Is Counted In 2020.” [Read More]

Thanks to the 2020 Iowa Caucus Conference hosted by Caroline Tolbert at the University of Iowa, I have been able to see the rallies, the field office operations, and ultimately the 2020 Iowa caucuses myself. Here are some of the pictures that captured the storm. [Read More]

The 3rd annual Election Sciences, Reform, & Administration Conference wrapped up successfully, at the University of Pennsylvania. Although there were no streams/videos recorded, here is a short brief on our working paper that was presented, posted on Medium by the MIT Election Lab.

I have given a public talk at the LA East R Users meetup on July 8, 2019, at the USC Health Campus. The slides on the meetup GitHub are here. [Read More]