Christopher Scott Inkpen

Penn State University

211 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802

CSInkpen@gmail.com
www.christopherinkpen.weebly.com
267.614.6583

Core Technical Skills

Statistical Packages: R, STATA, SAS, SPSS, HLM, Scikit-Learn (Python), JAGS
Programming Languages: Python
Spatial Analysis Packages: ArcGIS, Geoda, Cartodb, R
Database Administration: MySQL, Neo4j (Cypher scripting language)
Spoken Languages: English and Spanish (fluent and able to translate)
Education
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, December 2016 (expected)
Doctoral Minor in Social Data Analytics

M.A., Sociology and Demography, December 2013

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
B.A., Political Science, May 2006
Honors and Awards
Penn State University Graduate Fellowship 2015 2016
Integrative Graduate Ed. and Research Traineeship in Big Data Social Science 2013-2015
Schochor Centennial Graduate Endowment Scholarship 2012
Joan Huber and William Form Endowment Scholarship 2012
Fulbright-Garca Robles Public Policy Research Scholarship 2009
Research Experience
WaterSmart Software
Data Science Intern, San Francisco, CA
06.2015 08.2015
Designed, tested, and implemented irrigation detection algorithm (patent pending) for
integration with companys cloud-based software
Collaborated with engineering team to translate and test irrigation detection
algorithm for production across multiple water utility databases
Developed parameterized R scripts to run analyses using Rackspace servers
Used SQL to query multiple databases to create and analyze datasets
Performed and presented results from survival analyses to examine efficacy of
companys directed messaging program
Pew Research Center
Advanced Analytics Intern, Washington D.C.
06.2014 08.2014
Authored data-driven articles on Pews Fact Tank blog
Designed and collaborated on data visualizations in Tableau, R, and CartoDB
Created and analyzed large longitudinal migration database from various official
statistics sources and authored documentation for future use
Extracted, cleaned, and analyzed commercial flight data
Collected tweets using Python and R and performed text-mining analysis
Visualized geo-located tweets for domestic and international events using Python and
CartoDB
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Research Assistant, University Park
08.2011 - present
Conducted empirical analyses of multiple domestic and international datasets using

R, SAS, and STATA

Wrote programs to manipulate and merge multiple data sets for analysis in R and
STATA
Authored original research monographs related to migration and immigration topics
for submission to peer-reviewed journals and discipline-specific conferences
Applied Bayesian statistical perspective to population size estimation problems
Constructed economic and immigration longitudinal dataset from multiple sources
Developed database and data mining procedure of Demographic and Health Surveys
Principal Investigator, Tobat, Paraguay
05.2012 08.2012
Acted as principal investigator for original data collection project in Tobat, Paraguay
Designed and administered surveys to children of migrants and caretakers
Conducted qualitative data analysis to produce narrative of salient themes from
interviews

International Institute of Education, Mexico

Fulbright-Garca Robles Grantee, Public Policy Initiative
08.2009 08.2010
Conducted archival research of government surveys and studies
Interviewed academic and government sources
Administered health and history surveys to immigrants for the Instituto Nacional de
Migracin
Conducted in-depth interviews with over 50 migrant workers in various industries

Publications:
Thomas, K. J., & Inkpen, C. (2013). Migration Dynamics, Entrepreneurship, and African Development:
Lessons from Malawi. International Migration Review, 47(4), 844-873.
Thomas, K. J., & Inkpen, C. (Forthcoming) Foreign student migration to the United States: pathways of
entry, demographic antecedents, and the role of origin-country contexts. International Migration Review

Manuscripts In Progress
Inkpen, Christopher. Immigrant Generation, Race, and College: Testing Assimilation Theory with the
NLSY97.
Inkpen, Christopher. An Exploratory Analysis of Immigrant Assimilation: Incorporating Decision Trees
and Random Forests in Social Science.
Inkpen, Christopher. The Modern Migrant Mother: Internal Migration, Stalled Fertility, and Proximate
Determinants in Benin.
Inkpen, Christopher. A Qualitative Inquiry into the Educational Processes of Migrants Children in
Paraguay.

Online Publications:
Inkpen, Christopher, (2014) Seven Facts about World Migration. Pew Research Center Fact Tank
Inkpen, Christopher & Ruth Igielnik, (2014) Where Refugees to the U.S. Come From. Pew Research
Center Fact Tank
Lipka, Michael, & Christopher Inkpen, (2014) Where World Cup Footballers Play During the Regular
Season. Pew Research Center Fact Tank
Inkpen, Christopher, (2010) Security and Human Rights Issues on the Guatemalan/Mexican Border.
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Conference Presentations:
The Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Washington D.C. April 2016. Paper Presented.
Immigrant Generation, Race, and College: Testing Assimilation Theory with the NLSY97.
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. August 2015. Paper Presented. An
Exploratory Analysis of Immigrant Assimilation: Incorporating Decision Trees and Random Forests in
Social Science.
The Population Association of America Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. May 2015. Poster Presented.
Movement in America: A Spatial Analysis of County-to-County Migration.
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2014. Paper Presented.
Settling in Spain: Integration and the Influence of Immigrant and Domestic Organizations.
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2014. Roundtable Paper
Presented. A Qualitative Inquiry into the Educational Processes of Migrants Children in Paraguay.
The Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. May 2014. Poster Presented.
The Modern Migrant Mother: Internal Migration, Stalled Fertility, and Proximate Determinants in Benin.
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute Opening Workshop on Computational
Methods in Social Sciences. Research Triangle Park, NC. August 2013. Poster Presented Methodology
from Return Migration and Attitudes Towards Contraception: Evidence from Benin.
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. August 2013.
Roundtable Paper Presented Return Migration and Attitudes Towards Contraception: Evidence from
Benin.
Midwestern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. April 2012.
Paper Presented Ethnography of an Immigrant Labor Market on the Mexico/Guatemala Border

Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University Park
Aug. Dec. 2015
Led statistical labs for graduate statistics and data analysis class using STATA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University Park
Aug. Dec. 2012
Taught statistical analysis labs using SPSS for undergraduate research methodology
Research Interests and Methodologies
Social Demography; Quantitative and Survey Methodology; Measurement; Big Data;
Migration; Immigration and Assimilation; Latin America; Africa; Fertility; Education.
Methodologies: Generalized Linear Models, Demographic Techniques, Hierarchical
Linear Modeling, Spatial Econometrics, Event History Analysis, Causal Inference, Data
Mining/Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Survey Design and Analysis, Qualitative
Research.

References
Dr. Kevin Thomas, Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
kjt11@psu.edu
Dr. Burt Monroe, Department of Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University burtmonroe@psu.edu
Dr. R.S. Oropesa, Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
oropesa@psu.edu