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Policy Analyst Data Engineer Computational Social Scientist

Dr. Edwin
Alvarado-Mena

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01 / PRACTICE

Core Expertise

Applied AI Systems

I develop AI systems that strengthen organizational workflows and improve day-to-day performance.

  • AI architecture and requirements engineering
  • Integration and refactoring of existing systems
  • Testing and deployment
  • Prompt design and optimization

Independent Technology Evaluation

I help organizations evaluate and procure AI, data, and software solutions that fit their needs, constraints, and objectives.

  • AI requirements and evaluation criteria
  • Vendor evaluation and procurement support
  • Proposal and contract review
  • Independent validation and acceptance testing

Document Intelligence

I use concept-guided LLMs to extract verifiable evidence from complex document collections.

  • Applied natural language processing
  • Ontology engineering and annotation schema design
  • Human-in-the-loop evaluation
  • Knowledge graphs and graph databases

Strategic Policy and Regulatory Advisory

I assess policy and regulatory change through computational analysis of authoritative sources.

  • Policy, regulatory, and governance document analysis
  • Stakeholder and institutional mapping
  • Policy narrative and risk monitoring
  • Evidence assessment and strategic response

Data Systems & Communication

I design reliable data systems and pipelines that support analysis, reporting, and impactful communication.

  • Data collection, cleaning, and validation
  • Data modeling and visualization
  • SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Provenance tracking and technical documentation

Computational Capacity Building

I train professionals to work computationally, collaboratively, and reproducibly.

  • R and Python instruction
  • Code and documentation review
  • Computational environments for reproducibility
  • Version control and containerization
Policy Data Science Consulting LLC

02 / BROADER ENGAGEMENTS

Looking for a Broader Engagement?

Policy Data Science Consulting LLC provides services in organizational improvement, implementation, technology review, and strategic investigations.

We combine policy, data, and computation to strengthen organizational performance, readiness, and informed technology adoption.

Engagement models

03 / RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

Computational Support for Researchers

I partner with universities, research institutions, and individual scholars to strengthen computational capabilities, research practices, and scientific communication.

Course and curriculum design

Reproducible reports, books, and websites with Quarto

Cloud-based research and teaching notebooks with Google Colab

Custom websites for researchers, laboratories, and research projects

Responsible LLM-assisted research and writing workflows

Research data management and open science practices

Programming and computational support for publications and replication materials

Computational training for research groups

04 / A DOCUMENT INTELLIGENCE ECOSYSTEM

The Manifold: AI for Policy Data Science

Struggling to connect fragmented information across document-heavy environments?

The Manifold is an AI-powered research ecosystem that combines public policy and ontology engineering to transform unstructured documents into knowledge graphs.

The Manifold is organized into specialized modules, each designed to extract and structure a distinct type of policy-relevant information.

Upon — Organizational Networks

Upon

Organizational Networks

Racconto — Policy-Relevant Events

Racconto

Policy-Relevant Events

Simonizer — Policy Beliefs and Narratives

Simonizer

Policy Beliefs and Narratives

From Document Overload to Strategic Advantage

Many organizations rely on information buried in regulations, social media, contracts, and countless other sources.

The Manifold expands through new modules that extract, organize, and connect policy-relevant information.

Computer workstation used for applied research

05 / CURRENT AGENDA

Ongoing Applied Research

My current applied research examines how LLMs can support reliable government-affairs monitoring, the generation of high-quality networked data, and effective human-AI collaboration.

REGULATORY READINESS

Regulatory Monitoring for the Data Center Industry

Rapid growth in the data center industry is creating complex regulatory, environmental, economic, and political questions for companies and host communities alike.

How can LLMs help the data center industry and host communities keep pace with increasingly dynamic environments and better understand competing policy framings?

AI & ORGANIZATIONS

Toward a Science of LLM-Augmented Work: A Playbook

Business, government, and research institutions urgently need practical guidance for the responsible and effective use of generative AI.

What procedures, standards, and best practices are needed to preserve transparency and output quality as LLMs automate parts of organizational and scientific work?

HUMAN-AI COLLABORATION

Self-Organizing Human Task Forces for AI Output Evaluation

As the cost of AI-assisted data generation falls rapidly, human oversight remains resource-intensive. Redistributing the evaluation burden is imperative.

How can users design cross-model evaluation frameworks that leverage agreement among LLMs to prioritize human review and allocate the remaining work across projects?