Applied & Policy Research
Analytical projects on international science, policy, governance, and human security.
Global R&D Leadership Forecasting and Policy Modelling
Time series and regression analysis of aging demographics and R&D productivity across six world regions using V-Dem and World Bank data, 1996--2019.
Two-Century Trend -- Wealth & Democracy
Two-century cross-national analysis of education, wealth, and participatory democracy.
Women in Governance & Women's Empowerment
Cross-national analysis of women's representation in governance, educational gender parity, and egalitarian democracy across six regions using V-Dem and World Bank data.
Benchmarking Global Research Impact
Bibliometric framework for benchmarking research impact across countries and fields of research.
Terrorism Endangers Ape Conservation
QGIS mapping of terrorism attacks within primate habitats in sub-Saharan Africa shows a concentration in Africa's poorest, least democratic regions.
Terrorism in China -- Uyghur Areas
QGIS mapping of GTD terrorism data (China, 2010--2018) reveals geographic concentration of attacks in Uyghur-majority regions.
Access to Health Care Workers & Life Expectancy
Health care worker density positively impacts life expectancy outcomes by up to a year. Oral health is often neglected due to lack of access to a provider and costs even though poor oral health increases mortality risk.
Water-Related Extreme Weather Events (USA 1996--2011)
Spatial and temporal analysis of severe weather events identifies storm and flood types with the greatest fatality, injury, and property damage impacts across the US.
Fitness Tracking: Classifying Bicep Curl Form
Random forest and gradient boosting models applied to wearable accelerometer data classify bicep curls into correct and incorrect forms.
Human Variation Challenges Face Recognition Technology
Evaluate whether a state-of-the-art face recognition model (FaceNet) shows performance disparities across race, gender, and age.
Morph Attack Detection Using ResNet
Train a binary classifier to distinguish genuine face images from morphed (blended) images and understand presentation attack detection workflows.
XAI Prompt Engineering Using Bedrock
Few-shot prompt engineering for biometric sensor classification -- parameter optimization across Temperature, Top-K, and Top-P via AWS Bedrock.
Document Validation Using AWS Bedrock
Serverless document validation and auditing pipeline using Claude 3 Haiku via AWS Bedrock.
Shiny Applications
Four interactive Shiny applications: NSF award exploration, democracy indicators, next word prediction, and speed/distance calculation.