Current Position

Assistant Program Director
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
2026 - Present (Program Coordinator and Lecturer, 2024 - 2026)

I design and teach courses in macroeconomic theory and econometrics for masters students. All course materials are open source and available at jhu-econ.github.io. I serve as faculty advisor to students interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics or a career in industry, and as course manager for adjunct faculty teaching econometrics.

Visiting Assistant Research Professor
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2023 - 2024

Continued research on heterogeneous agent models and solution methods. Advised Ph.D. students interested in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics. Collaborated with Prof. Christopher Carroll on ongoing projects.

Education

Ph.D. in Economics
The Ohio State University, 2023
Advisors: Prof. Christopher Carroll (JHU), Prof. Meta Brown (OSU)

M.A. in Economics
The University of Texas at Austin, 2017

B.S. in Pure Mathematics, B.A. in Economics with Special Honors, B.A. in Government, Certificate in Scientific Computation
The University of Texas at Austin, 2013

Research Interests

My research focuses on developing advanced computational methods to analyze the economic conditions of households, with emphasis on understanding and addressing inequality, poverty, and economic mobility. I work at the intersection of computational economics, quantitative macroeconomics, and household finance, developing tools and methods that make economic research more accessible, transparent, and reproducible.

Key areas: Computational Economics, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Sequential Decision Making, Machine Learning, Economics of AI, Household Finance, Inequality, Computational Social Science, Open Source Economics, Reproducible Research

Affiliations

Core Developer, Econ-ARK (2020 - Present)
Core developer and maintainer of HARK, Econ-ARK’s open-source Python toolkit for heterogeneous-agent models. Researcher on its methods and life-cycle work, released as reproducible REMARKs. Assisted in grant development. Joined through Google Summer of Code, 2020. Econ-ARK is an open-source project sponsored by NumFOCUS.

Service

Chair, SCE Working Group on AI Assistance, Reproducibility and Standards (2026 - Present)

Organizer (with Christopher Carroll), CEF 2026 Pre-conference Meeting
Venice, Italy (June 2026)

Organizer, David A. Kendrick Memorial Conference
Society for Computational Economics and Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC (May 2026)

Chair, Open Source Science (OSSci) Economics Interest Group (2024 - Present)

Reviewer, Journal of Open Source Software

Graduate Student Representative, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Department of Economics, The Ohio State University (2020 - 2023)

Delegate for the Department of Economics, Council of Graduate Students
The Ohio State University (2020 - 2022)

President, Economics Graduate Student Society
The Ohio State University (2018 - 2020)

Awards