Brian McInnis

Biography

Brian McInnis joined RAND in 2009 as a Research Assistant. He holds a B.A. in Economics and History from the University of California, Davis and an M.P.P. with a concentration in Education Policy from the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. During 2005, he served as the student member of the California Preschool through Post-Secondary Education (P-16) Council where he focused on issues of K-12 school accountability as well as academic rigor. For several years he worked with Dr. Dale Ballou to study achievement trade-offs and the accountability component of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). While at Vanderbilt, McInnis also developed web-bots and text/data-mining engines in his capacity as a computer programmer for the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI). At RAND, McInnis focuses on K-12 education policy issues, naval acquisition programs, and has developed Python based text mining algorithms for Natural Language Processing.