Selected work
A selection of the databases, search systems, research tools, and policy papers I’ve built or authored.
2026 · in progress
Open, task-sized models that turn published legal documents into structured data. The regulations model emits USLM. A separate Nemotron model extracts subject–predicate–object relationships. The aim is the smallest model that can do each job.
Mercatus Center · 2018–2024
A major focus throughout my six years at Mercatus. I served as database administrator, managed the public API, supported data collection, and helped turn state regulations and statutes into comparable longitudinal datasets. I also created new capabilities—including topic clustering and durable document references that kept documents consistently identifiable across editions—alongside restriction counts, industry relevance, agency metadata, search tools, and dashboards.
Institute for Humane Studies · 2025
A research platform that consolidated statutes, regulations, bills, and scholarly work into traditional, semantic, concept, and graph-search systems.
Institute for Humane Studies · 2025
An Electron application somewhere between VS Code and Word: a workspace for researching, analyzing, and writing about public policy. Its constrained agent assembled dependable workflows—search, graphs, and statistical analysis—from the user’s request, relevant data, and narrowly defined skills.
Mercatus Center · 2024
A graph-based approach to legal search that normalized differences in document length, vocabulary, and topic density using co-occurrence, cross-citation, hierarchy, and legal relationships.
Mercatus Center · AI Engineer · 2024
An AI-assisted system that matched new and changing legislation to research teams, ranked results, tracked selected bills, and delivered weekly email digests.
Mercatus Center · Data Engineer · 2023
The final project of my data-engineering tenure: a retrieval-augmented chatbot for federal and state nuclear-energy law and regulation. I built the search index, shared model storage, API, serverless functions, and network architecture.
Vulcan · 2025–2026
Built a database and collection system spanning federal, state, and roughly 19,000 municipal governments, with billions of records from legal and other public sources.
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Mercatus Center · 2022
A comparison of the volume, complexity, industry relevance, and issuing agencies of regulation in Australia, Canada, and the United States.
Manhattan Institute · 2019
An examination of unfunded retiree health-care obligations and reforms that can preserve benefits while reducing risks to public services.
ALEC · 2019
A survey of more than 280 state-administered public pension plans, their assets, liabilities, assumptions, and funding risks.
ALEC · 2018
A state-by-state collection and analysis of $1.1 trillion in outstanding bonds reported by states and their component units.
ALEC · 2018
A survey of state-administered non-pension benefit plans and the actuarial assumptions, reform choices, and risks behind their unfunded liabilities.
ALEC · 2017
An analysis of public-pension underfunding using both state-reported assumptions and alternative measures of long-term risk.
Yankee Institute · 2016
A review of spending, taxes, deficits, and the constitutional spending cap in the 25 years following Connecticut’s adoption of an income tax.
Yankee Institute · 2015
A town-by-town comparison of per-capita municipal spending in Connecticut, with a closer look at four of the highest-spending municipalities.