Dylan Nelson
Assistant Professor at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDylan Nelson is an Assistant Professor at UIUC whose research sits at the intersection of corporate governance, organizational change, and worker mobility, with a particular empirical focus on how private equity transactions affect employees in leveraged buyouts and build-up acquisitions. He joined Illinois in 2024 after a PhD in Economic & Organizational Sociology from the University of Michigan and a postdoc at MIT Sloan, bringing 14 years of experience blending rigorous quantitative training (including an MA in Statistics) with sociological theory. Dylan’s work combines careful measurement of labor outcomes with attention to firm-level governance processes, making policy-relevant contributions to debates about modern employment practices. Trained also in political sociology at LSE and with an undergraduate background in music from Brown, he brings an interdisciplinary and sometimes unconventional perspective to organizational research.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology at University of MichiganBachelor of Arts, Music, Bachelor of Arts, Music at Brown UniversityMaster of Science, Political Sociology, Master of Science, Political Sociology at London School of Economics and Political Science
Spanish
Github Skills (84)
sympy10
python-scripts10
h5py10
multi-user10
cuda10
jupyter-notebook10
matlab9
pythonic9
api9
numba9
parallel9
python9
ipython9
svg9
jupyterhub9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
illustristng/illustris_python
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
Illustris[TNG] public data release: Python scripts.
Contributions:27 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 years 10 months
public-datapythondata-releasepython-scripts
illustristng/illustris_matlab
Mar 2015 - Dec 2022
Illustris[TNG] public data release: Matlab scripts.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 years 10 months
public-datasympydata-releasematlab
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