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 specializing in Measurement, Statistics, and Methodological Studies (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, and he serves as a grant peer reviewer on the Institute of Education Sciences’ Statistics and Modeling panel.

His experience also includes teaching at UMass Boston, both full time from 2019 to 2022 and in individual courses in 2024, 2025 and 2026; a master's degree in Technical Communication and Rhetoric; and collaborating with research teams on statistical analysis.

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.

Beyond the founders

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