Biography:
Sean Doody is a Senior Researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) who leads data science projects. He specializes in designing data ingestion pipelines for diverse data sources, training and deploying machine learning classifiers to improve information extraction and data entry workflows, developing natural language processing algorithms to derive insights from unstructured text data, and applying conventional statistical inference and qualitative research methodologies to address a variety of research problems.
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Background
Education:
- George Mason University, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2022
- Virginia Commonwealth University, M.S. in Sociology, 2016
- Virginia Commonwealth University, B.A. in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, 2014
Honors:
- Presidential Scholarship, George Mason University, 2016-2020
- High Pass in Sociology Comprehensive Exam (Highest Honors), Department of Sociology & Anthropology, George Mason University, 2018
- Graduate Teaching Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014-2016
- Outstanding Student in Political Science Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014
Professional Experience:
- University of Maryland, START, Senior Researcher, 2022-Present
- Graduate Research Assistant, George Mason University, 2016-2022
- Lecturer in Sociology, George Mason University, 2021
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014-2016