I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rice University and the founding Co-Director of the Center for Computational Insight on Inequality and Society at Rice University. I have broad research interests in social and spatial inequality, a substantive focus on residential segregation, and methodological expertise in computational social science and quantitative methods.

 My research integrates a classic sociological interest in the social organization of cities and the development of innovative methods to examine fundamental questions about the spatial structure of residential segregation and the complex relationship between the social and built environment of cities. My research has been supported by the American Sociological Association and the National Academies, and I received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

I received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University, and a B.A. and M.P.A. from George Washington University. I was awarded a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems, which supported my postdoctoral research at the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. I have previously held positions as a Presidential Management Fellow and Research Analyst at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Brookings Institution, and Government Accountability Office.