My name is Mikaela Meyer, and I’m a PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) Fellow in the joint Statistics and Public Policy program at Carnegie Mellon University. I earned my BS in Mathematical Statistics and Applied Statistics from Purdue University in May 2018. I am the 2017 Truman Scholar from Indiana. Currently, my research interests include fairness in pretrial risk assessments, causal inference, applying statistics to criminal justice questions and statistics pedagogy. When I’m not in the office, you can usually find me playing intramural sports, cheering for the Boilermakers, or having fun at board game night.
Ph.D. in Statistics and Public Policy, 2023
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Statistics, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University
BS in Mathematical Statistics, 2018
Purdue University
Automated merging of multiple structure data sets for use in the Coastal Louisiana Flood Risk Assessment (CLARA) model’s damage calculations
Calculated future flood return period estimates based on projections from three regional climate models for Pittsburgh
Internship completed as part of Truman Scholarship Foundation’s Summer Institute
Summarized DHS R scripts for a team of statisticians and non-statisticians to better understand how the Department calculated various border security metrics. Findings can be found in this report.
Using methods from cognitive science to uncover misconceptions students in introductory statistical inference courses may hold
Building hierarchical logistic regression models using Center for Policing Equity data to analyze the variance in racial disparities in policing within a city