Jordan Lawson, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the Center for Optimized Student Support in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College and a Research Affiliate with SEII. His research inter­ests and exper­tise include school access and equi­ty, exper­i­men­tal and qua­si-exper­i­men­tal research design, causal infer­ence, Bayesian infer­ence, and high-per­for­mance com­put­ing. Jordan com­plet­ed his Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis at Boston College in 2019. He is cur­rent­ly involved in research that eval­u­ates the effects of an inte­grat­ed stu­dent sup­port pro­gram using cen­tral­ized stu­dent assign­ment mechanisms.