Dylan Nelson
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorDylan 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.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (78)
voronoi10
python-scripts10
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h5py10
binary-data10
hdf10
visualization10
matlab9
parallel9
python9
ipython9
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jupyterhub9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
illustristng/illustris_idl
Dec 2019 - Jun 2023
Illustris[TNG] public data release: IDL scripts.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
idl
illustristng/illustris_julia
Jan 2022 - Jan 2026
Illustris[TNG] public data release: Julia scripts.
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 1 month
public-datadata-analysisjulia-languagefmidata-release
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