Michael Kotrous
Graduate Research Assistant
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Kotrous is a PhD candidate in Economics and a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Georgia with nine years of professional experience bridging academic research, program management, and web development. His research focuses on regulatory processes, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship, informed by hands-on program leadership at the Mercatus Center where he progressed from associate to program manager. At UGA he supports honors microeconomics, economic analysis of law, and senior thesis supervision, blending teaching with empirical research. Earlier in his career he built interactive web experiences and led digital marketing efforts, giving him practical technical and communication skills that complement his policy work. A Bastiat Fellow for 2021–2022, he brings a policy-oriented perspective to questions of innovation and regulation. He combines rigorous economic training with program delivery experience, making him adept at translating research into actionable programmatic impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Georgia - Terry College of BusinessBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at Creighton University
English
Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
darkmode10
firefox10
firefox-addon10
reader10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
browser-extension10
broadband7
journal6
scraper5
assemble1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
michaelkotrous/form477-panels
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Assemble a panel dataset of U.S. fixed broadband and demographic data from Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2019. Replicate the results of Kotrous and Bailey, "Broadband Speeds in Fibered US Markets," Journal of Information Policy.
Contributions:4 releases, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
policyjournaldatasetus-marketspanel
michaelkotrous/daedalus
May 2017 - Jan 2020
Convert NTSB eADMS tables to research-friendly formats
Contributions:13 PRs, 50 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 8 months
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