Teaching
Research Design II
Graduate course on causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, matching, synthetic controls, and sensitivity analysis.
Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026
The Innovation Economy
Graduate course on innovation, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, commercialization, university technology transfer, and innovation policy.
Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2025
Research Design in the Social and Policy Sciences
Undergraduate introduction to research design, causal reasoning, measurement, and policy evaluation.
Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2026
Game Theory for Political Scientists
Graduate course on strategic interaction, political economy, bargaining, information, and institutions.
Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2026
From Writing to Cryptocurrency: Science, Technology, and Institutions
Undergraduate course on the historical development of technology and institutions. Cross-listed.
Taught: Fall 2022, Fall 2025
EPPS Policy Lab
Applied undergraduate and graduate policy laboratory co-taught with Timothy Bray. Students learn to apply modern causal inference, policy evaluation, and evidence synthesis to an applied policy question. They delivered a white paper to the project stakeholders.
Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2026
Democratic Backsliding
Undergraduate seminar on democratic erosion, executive power, political institutions, and media.
Taught: Spring 2026
Selected previous teaching
At Georgia Tech, I taught Economics of International Security and Political Economy of Post-Communism. At UCLA, I taught in political science and supported courses in technology and competitive analytics at the Anderson School of Management. Earlier teaching at the University of Maryland and Kazan National Research Technological University included economics, innovation, and intellectual property.