Ryan at a dark desk lit by two screens of precinct maps and racecall dashboards — **plate ii.** Around one in the morning, building data visualizations for an article that ran a few hours later, the morning after the NY‑13 primary.

hey hey, my name is ryan!

Most of my interests sit in some broad cross-section of elections, economics, and AI/inference. Outside of being a nerd, I swim quite a bit for my club and high school teams. In my free time I like to shoot photos, it’s a hobby of mine, and every once in a while I’ll shoot for the Chicago Union, our local pro ultimate frisbee team.

I work as a Data Science Fellow at VoteHub, mostly on racecall and the occasional election model. I originally came on to help with our midterm model, including a small program that normalizes Kalshi odds.

In an earlier life, I worked on the Daniel Biss campaign as the volunteer finance lead doing donor research, and eventually built IL9Cast, a forecasting model for the IL-09 Democratic primary. It landed every candidate’s share within two points, got the finishing order right, and drew local press coverage. Truly a race for the ages!

Even closer to home, I sit on the editorial board at The Evanstonian as website editor. I also co-host Project 2028, a politics podcast I started with a few friends back in eighth grade. In the summer, I lifeguard on the beach for the Evanston Fire Department.

I’m also a committed onion futures advocate: I think the Onion Futures Act, 7 U.S.C. § 13‑1, ought to be repealed, if only for the sake of onion-price stability.