Brian Kim is an Assistant Research Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology and a Co-director for the Social Data Science Major at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on social network analysis, network sampling methods (particularly respondent-driven sampling), and […]
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Robyn Ferg is a senior statistician at Westat. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on developing methods for extracting insights from social media data. She has taught graduate and short courses at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (University of Maryland) and given talks on text analysis at the Census Bureau, University of Maryland, University […]
Continue ReadingJennifer (Jen) Dykema
is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Faculty Director of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC). Jen’s research focuses on survey methodology, identifying sources of errors produced in the process of gathering standardized measurements and developing and implementing methods to reduce those errors. This work examines three main areas of inquiry: questionnaire design, methods […]
Continue ReadingAlicia Menanteau, PhD
She is a University of Chicago trained sociologist with over 20 years’ experience, Alicia Menanteau, PhD, is founder and president of Insights360, a qualitative research firm which designs and executes in-person and virtual (online) research for international and domestic clients. In addition to past teaching roles for the University of Minnesota and University of South Carolina […]
Continue ReadingSabrina Hermosilla
Dr. Sabrina Hermosilla is a Research Investigator at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. She completed her PhD, MIA and MPH at Columbia University, holds an MS from The City College of New York, and a BA from Colgate University. Dr. Hermosilla has almost two decades of experience designing and conducting applied research […]
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Dr. Colter Mitchell is a Research Associate Professor in the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He is the director of the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics Program and is the Co-Director of the ISR Biospecimen Lab and the NIA supported Genomics for Social Scientists course. Dr. Mitchell’s research […]
Continue ReadingChristopher Antoun
Christopher Antoun is an Assistant Research Professor with a joint appointment at the College of Information Studies (iSchool) and Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). His research focuses on using smartphones to collect population data, either through text messaging, mobile questionnaires, or apps and sensors. Before coming to UMD, he obtained his PhD in Survey […]
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Jinseok Kim, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, and also in the U-M School of Information (by Courtesy). Dr. Kim has studied how data quality can affect knowledge discovery from big scholarly data and how to improve data quality control in digital libraries through […]
Continue ReadingVictoria Vignare
Victoria Vignare is an operations manager in Westat’s large-scale survey group. She specializes in developing and leading deployment of performance dashboards, GPS and mobile technologies. She has managed a number of large household studies including the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health, the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the National Epidemiologic Survey on […]
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Mike Kearney is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri where he holds a joint appointment in the School of Journalism and the Informatics Institute. His research examines the spread of political information through digital media using computational social scientific methods. Kearney earned his Ph.D. in communication studies along with a graduate minor in […]
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