Curriculum Vitae

A summary of my academic journey, research experience, and professional development.

🎓 Academic Appointments

2024 – Present

Post-Doctoral Researcher

The Criminal Law & Justice Center, UC Berkeley

📚 Education

2019 – 2024

Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy

University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation: "Criminal Justice Reform: Voting, Policing, and Public Attitudes"
Committee: Jonathan Simon (Chair), Rebecca Goldstein, Gabriel Lenz
Graduate Fellow, Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies
Graduate Fellow, Center for American Democracy, Stanford

2018 – 2019

LL.M., Thesis Track

University of California, Berkeley

Dean's List at Berkeley Law (top 10% of LL.M. class)

2012 – 2016

LL.B. and B.A. in Linguistics

Tel Aviv University

Joint Program in Law and Humanities (Full Tuition)

🔬 Research Initiatives

2024 – Present

AI for Defense Lawyers Portal

Created and maintain a comprehensive resource for public defenders on AI adoption, featuring tool evaluations, implementation case studies, and ethical guidelines.

2024 – Present

Berkeley Empirical Research in Quantitative Justice (BERQ-J)

Founded and direct interdisciplinary workshop series for quantitative criminal justice research at UC Berkeley. Administer small grants program ($1,000–$2,000) supporting graduate student research.

💻 Technical Skills

Statistical Software

  • R
  • STATA
  • Python

Programming

  • Python
  • SQL
  • LaTeX

Methods

  • Causal Inference
  • Experimental Design
  • Survey Methods
  • Text Analysis & NLP
  • Machine Learning

🏆 Selected Awards & Grants

Berkeley LLM Outstanding Thesis Scholarship

$10,000

Berkeley Law, Economics, and Politics Center Fellowship

$7,000

Politics, Philosophy, and Law (PPL) Graduate Fellow

$6,500

CSLS Independent Summer Research Fellowship

$3,000

UC Berkeley CSLS Graduate Student Paper Prize

$1,000

Western Society of Criminology Paper Award

2021

Stanford Center for American Democracy Fellowship

$2,000

Coblentz Civil Rights Endowment Fellowship

$2,500

Total number of grants: 8

👨‍🏫 Teaching Experience

2020 – 2023

Graduate Student Instructor

UC Berkeley

• Quantitative Approaches to Law & Social Science (Graduate, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
• Supreme Court and Public Policy (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022)

2015 – 2016

Teaching Assistant

Tel Aviv University

Politics, Economics & Culture • Evidence Law • Legal Theory • Family Law

📈 Methods Training

2021

ICPSR Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

University of Michigan

2019 – 2024

Graduate Coursework in Quantitative Methods

UC Berkeley

Causal Inference, Experimental Design, Machine Learning, Text Analysis, Survey Methods

🤝 Professional Service

Journal Reviewer

  • Public Opinion Quarterly
  • American Politics Research
  • Punishment & Society

Professional Memberships

  • American Political Science Association
  • Law and Society Association