Summary
Brandon Kopp is a director and research-focused data scientist with over a decade of experience applying social psychology and qualitative methods to improve large-scale survey operations at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He designs and operationalizes data science solutions—R Shiny monitoring dashboards, ML-based text extraction from PDFs, email clustering, and paradata pipelines—that translate research insights into production-ready workflows and governance. Brandon coordinates cross-office projects, leads a growing data science training program and internship pipeline, and helped establish agency-wide GitLab-based version control, a now-standard production tool at BLS. His background as a research psychologist and Army National Guard leader gives him a rare blend of rigorous experimental design, people management, and mission-oriented systems thinking.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Griggs County Central High School
B.S., Psychology, Sociology, B.S., Psychology, Sociology at North Dakota State University
M.A., Social Psychology, M.A., Social Psychology at The Ohio State University