Brendan is Associate Director for Partnerships and Community Engagement in the Epistemic Analytics lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Learning Sciences from UW-Madison, and B.A. in Mathematics and Asian Studies from St. Olaf College. Brendan is a bridge builder within the growing Quantitative Ethnography (QE) community and has experience connecting QE research and practice in many different fields, including the learning sciences, computer supported collaborative learning, learning analytics, health care, ethics in education, child development, policy analysis, and community development.