Our Team — DASS
The team

Statisticians who speak human

You work directly with senior methodologists who stay hands-on with your project from first call to final handoff.

Founders

Dr. Nedim Yel
Dr. Nedim Yel
Co-Founder & Lead Statistician

PhD in psychometrics and a Harvard Strategic Data Fellow with 15+ years across NSF-, IES-, and foundation-funded research — from randomized trials at 22 colleges to healthcare and access-to-justice work. Today he also works as a Senior Data Scientist building AI products.

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Dr. Kerrie Wilkins-Yel
Dr. Kerrie Wilkins-Yel
Co-Founder & Mixed-Methods Researcher · NSF CAREER Fellow

Associate Professor at UMass Boston and PI on ~$5M in grants, with research cited over 2,000 times. She blends rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods to answer the questions numbers alone can't.

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Beyond the founders

DASS is building a small network of independent methodologists and statisticians for projects that call for specialized expertise.

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