Research

Interparty dislike is rising in the United States, but it's unclear whether this rise has been accompanied by a divergence in people's underlying ideology. In ongoing work, I propose a new measure of idological polarization in the American public and demonstrate its increase over the last several decades.

Since college, I've worked as an RA on a project using social security death records and IRS tax returns to study the relationship between income, race, and life expectancy in the United States.

In college, I helped develop a method for reporting abuse on private messaging apps that still maintains the guarantees of end-to-end encryption. I devised a way for users to keep their privacy until their messages are reported many times or by many different people.

At Carleton, I studied a generalization of the set-cover problem where—in addition to desirable "good" elements—the universe contains "bad" elements that one actively seeks to avoid.