I am an Assistant Professor of Organizations and Management at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Currently, I also serve as a scientific advisor at Instill Labs. I graduated with a PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

My research sits at the intersection of organization theory, cultural sociology, and computational social science. I am motivated by a problem between interpretation and measurement: many of the objects that organize social life (styles, reputations, performances, creative works, forms of communication, etc.) matter because of what they mean, but are difficult to operationalize and compare systematically. I develop ways to make these objects measurable without treating them as simple counts or stripping away their cultural content. Substantively, I use these tools to study how judgments of creativity, legitimacy, authority, success and the like shape organizations and cultural markets. Methodologically, I combine computational analysis of digital trace data with field, archival, and experimental data, including machine learning and AI-based approaches to measurement at scale. You can read more about my research here.

During my time at the GSB, I was a member of the Computational Culture Lab, which aims to pioneer novel ways of unearthing and systematically measuring culture while modeling its evolution. Prior to my studies at Stanford, I obtained an M.S. in Quantitative Methods from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and worked as a research analyst in the Capital Markets function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.