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CSET research sheds light on the backgrounds and career paths of nearly 3,600 awardees in China’s Youth Thousand Talents Plan. While concerns over China’s recruitment of science and technology experts for military-supporting roles are legitimate, this brief finds that the vast majority of YTTP awardees receive civilian-oriented job offers. Read the CSET issue brief here.
Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency and 5G/6G will reshape our education system by 2030. It is essential that governments and the private sector collaborate to make sure that the economic transition to these technologies doesn’t exacerbate existing socioeconomic divides in the United States. In order to prevent a widening class divide, the education sector will need to evolve to match the skills required for newly emerging jobs – including digital literacy and soft skills – and must ensure that students across the…Continue Reading “Emerging Talent: Rethinking Higher Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution”
Policymakers continue to debate the ability of the United States to attract and retain top international talent. This Issue Brief assesses how many international Ph.D. graduates across various STEM fields and nationalities intend to stay in the United States after completing their degrees. Read the CSET issue brief here. Read related Washington Post (Monkey Cage) article.
Research project with Greg Volynsky to increase the diffusion of academic research into public policy. This project was supervised by Professor George Loewenstein. Read the report here! The academic world has long treasured her independence — academia is seen as an intellectual silo; an oasis of thought and science. This is, in many ways, a necessary, positive, and formative feature of the academic world — transformational thought requires autonomy and distance. Intellectual developments have, therefore, historically had a substantial incubation period; this, too, can be…Continue Reading “The Ripples Project: Expanding the Reach of University Research”
Global climate change represents a significant threat to our well-being and to the well-being of future generations, across the world and in Pittsburgh. Climate change is driven by the emission of greenhouse gases, and urban areas are responsible for approximately 70% of global emissions. The state of Pennsylvania contributes significantly to global carbon emissions; if it were ranked as a country, it would be the 22nd largest carbon emitter in the world. Within Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh has a legacy of high per capita greenhouse gas (GHG)…Continue Reading “Reducing Building Energy Consumption in Pittsburgh”
How much money could my family save monthly on gas by switching to an electric car? The answer: not much. Check out the RMarkdown file.
“Rollief” was a medical product idea that I developed with a group of friends for Carnegie Mellon’s Impact-a-thon on February 12, 2018. We continued the project (conducted market research) until September 2018 but ultimately decided to sunset the project. View slide deck or poster. In emergency relief scenarios, first-responders attempt to prevent infection by appropriately bandaging wounds. However, emergency situations often have an abundance of infected (standing) water and poor sanitation. Clearly, there is a need for an improved system that allows victims of natural…Continue Reading “Rollief: One-step Wound Care”
Presented Fall 2017 Air Lab research at Carnegie Mellon University’s “Meeting of the Minds” on May 9, 2018. A key problem in the field of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation is simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Ultra Wideband (UWB) localization systems present a partial solution, because they are highly effective in featureless dynamic environments. This study sought to understand the accuracy, range, and localization capabilities of two UWB products: the commercial Posyx system and a custom-built Arduino Pro Mini connected to a DecaWave1000 UWB transmitter…Continue Reading “Testing the range and accuracy of Ultra Wideband (UWB) devices for UAV localization applications.”
American democratic institutions have begun to degrade without a robust and secure connection between representatives and constituents—their purpose lost. Most work has either sought to exclusively define the extent and source of a lack of political justification in American politics or propose general solutions to the problem. However, this work has not yet drawn a connection between source and solution in a broad, aggregated analysis. This paper first presents innovative interpretations of (1) the reasons for a lack of political justification and (2) previously proposed…Continue Reading “Mending the bridge: Repairing political justification in American society”
Paper for a statistics course: Understanding the significance of constituent demographics is incredibly important to politicians and policymakers alike. These individuals constantly apply statistical tools to surveys in order to effectively understand the political perspectives of target populations. How fervently an individual practices their religion—what will be called “Degree of Religious Practice”—is one key aspect of political science. This study seeks to answer one primary research question and two secondary research questions. The primary research question is to determine whether or not there exists a…Continue Reading “Religious Fervor: Analyzing the significance of religious practice”