Ben Smith
Full Professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Smith is a Full Professor of Economics and Department Chair at the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a decade of academic experience and a background building commercial web products. He blends rigorous econometric methods with practical data analytics to develop statistically valid measures of learning and improve applied empirical techniques across education, cities, and behavioral topics. As holder of the Harlan and Nancy Noddle Professorship and a former founder of a software company, he pairs scholarly insight with product-minded engineering—having designed CRM and project-management tools that integrated many third-party APIs and led in language analysis and offline mobile UX. Ben’s work emphasizes actionable evidence for policy and practice, and he brings a rare mix of classroom, departmental leadership, and hands-on software development to interdisciplinary problems.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Washington State University
Github Skills (50)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tazzben/CasseySmithCV
Dec 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 2 pushes, 3 tags in 3 years 6 months
tazzben/GradeNudge
Dec 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
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