Some of my academic and industry work has been covered in the media ... ### Academic Dishonesty (from my time @ Carnegie Mellon and Duke) I was quoted in both of these pieces in 2023 exploring the people and backstories surrounding questions about Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely's research ethics. * New Yorker, [They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie) * New York Times, [The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/business/the-harvard-professor-and-the-bloggers.html) ### AI in Agriculture (@ Bowery Farming) * New Yorker, [The Age of Robot Farmers](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/the-age-of-robot-farmers) * Fortune, [A.I. gets down in the dirt as precision agriculture takes off](https://fortune.com/2020/10/05/a-i-precision-agriculture-deere/) * New York Times, [No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/dining/hydroponic-farming.html) ### Investor behavior and data science (@ Betterment) * Betterment, [Why’d I do that: Never forget with the Investing Journal](https://www.betterment.com/resources/inside-betterment/product-news/whyd-i-do-that-never-forget-with-the-investing-journal/) * Professional Wealth Management, [Marrying automation and traditional banking](http://www.pwmnet.com/FinTech/Marrying-automation-and-traditional-banking) * Bank Investment Consultant, [The Advantage of Data-Driven Financial Advice](http://www.bankinvestmentconsultant.com/news/reinvent_wealth/the-advantage-of-data-driven-financial-advice-2693905-1.html?zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1) * Betterment, [Betterment Customers Stay the Course, Steer Clear of Behavior Gap](https://web.archive.org/web/20190914053442/https://www.betterment.com/resources/betterment-customers-stay-the-course-steer-clear-of-behavior-gap/) * Betterment, [Data Suggests Women Are Better (Behaved) Investors](https://www.betterment.com/resources/investment-strategy/behavioral-finance-investing-strategy/data-suggests-women-are-better-behaved-investors/) * Fortune, [Why women are better investors than men](https://fortune.com/2015/04/10/why-women-are-better-investors-than-men/) * Quartz, [If you want to invest smarter, invest like a woman](http://qz.com/412502/if-you-want-to-invest-smarter-invest-like-a-woman/) * Ascent (Columbia/CUNY/NYU/Cornell), [Career transitions from academia to data science](https://video.cvn.columbia.edu/media/t/0_hj4q5qik/24901351) (video) at About.com ### Admissions and hiring decisions (@ Carnegie Mellon) * Los Angeles Times, [Grade inflation works – in schools and in the workforce, study finds](http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-grade-inflation-20130724,0,3196331.story) * Wall Street Journal, [M.B.A. Admission Tip: Always Go for an Easy ‘A’](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323997004578640241102477584.html) & [In Hiring and Promoting, Look Beyond Results](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576586931897851772.html) * Financial Times, [Employers’ blind spot that causes hiring mistakes](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/09f5ab9e-f523-11e2-b4f8-00144feabdc0.html) * Businessweek, [Colleges With Lenient Grades Get Six Times as Many Grads Into B-School](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-30/colleges-with-lenient-grades-get-six-times-as-many-grads-into-b-school) * Scientific American, [How Data Beats Intuition at Making Selection Decisions](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-beats-intuition-at-making-selection-decisions/) * Boston Globe, [The trouble with grade inflation: It works. Easy A’s really do open doors, suggests a new study.](http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/31/the-trouble-with-grade-inflation-works/tL6am7MEz56f3PA2MD7I3I/story.html) * USA Today, [College grade inflation: Does A stand for ‘average’?](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/21/college-grade-inflation-what-does-an-mean/3662003/) * Quartz, [The psychological phenomenon that skews college admissions and hiring](http://qz.com/110434/the-psychological-phenomenon-that-skews-college-admissions-and-hiring/) * Pacific Standard, [There’s a Good Reason Grade Inflation Is Here to Stay]( http://www.psmag.com/education/good-reason-grade-inflation-stay-princeton-harvard-university-71087/) * Inside Higher Education, [Questionable Admissions](http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/30/study-suggests-admissions-decisions-reward-grade-inflation) * McKnight’s Long Term Care News, [Employers giving too much credit when hiring: research](http://www.mcknights.com/employers-giving-too-much-credit-when-hiring-research/article/310058/) * Daily Cal, [Study finds admissions officers prone to select students with inflated grades](http://www.dailycal.org/2013/07/31/study-finds-admissions-officers-prone-to-select-students-with-inflated-grades/) * Daily Princetonian, [New research on grade deflation’s impact concerns Eisgruber ’83](http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2013/10/new-research-on-grade-deflations-impact-concerns-eisgruber-83/) * Association for Psych Science, [Grade inflation works – in schools and in the workforce, study finds](http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/grade-inflation-works-in-schools-and-in-the-workforce-study-finds.html) * McKnight’s Long Term Care News, [Employers giving too much credit when hiring: research](http://www.mcknights.com/employers-giving-too-much-credit-when-hiring-research/article/310058/) * Haas Newsroom, [Are You Hiring the Wrong Person?](http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research-news/are-you-hiring-wrong-person) * HBS Working Knowledge, [Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway](http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7281.html) ### Geopolitical forecasting and wisdom of the crowd (@ UPenn & UC Berkeley) * Economist, [Forecasting examined, the World in 2014 appears](http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2014/2013/11/forecasting-examined) & [Adventures in Punditry](http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/09/perils-prediction) * New York Times, [Forecasting Fox](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/opinion/brooks-forecasting-fox.html?hp&_r=1&) * New Yorker, [When Less Confidence Leads to Better Results](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/11/when-less-confidence-leads-to-better-results.html) * Washington Post, [Good judgment in forecasting international affairs](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/26/good-judgment-in-forecasting-international-affairs-and-an-invitation-for-season-3/) * National Public Radio, [So You Think You’re Smarter Than a CIA Agent](http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-you-think-youre-smarter-than-a-cia-agent) * Smithsonian, [Can Crowds Predict the Future?](http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/12/can-crowds-predict-the-future/) * Foreign Policy, [Trending Upward, How the intelligence community can better see into the future](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/06/trending_upward?page=0%2C0) ### Profiles * Carnegie Mellon, [A Buggy Connection](http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/society/2014/fall/a-buggy-connection.shtml) * The Data Incubator, [How a Degree in Social Science Can Lead to a Career as a Data Scientist](http://blog.thedataincubator.com/2014/11/how-a-degree-in-social-science-can-lead-to-a-career-as-a-data-scientist/) * Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research Office, [Alumni: Sam Swift](http://www.cmu.edu/uro/highlights/alumni-sam-swift.html)