Lily An

Lily An serves as an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methodology within the Educational Policy Studies department at Georgia State University's College of Education & Human Development. She completed her Ph.D. in Education Policy and Program Evaluation at Harvard University in 2025, where she was affiliated with the Center for Education Policy Research as a PIER Fellow.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Education Policy and Program Evaluation, Harvard University (2025)
• Ed.M. in Education Policy and Management, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• B.A. in Statistics, Williams College

Dr. An's research focuses on advancing educational measurement techniques, developing rigorous program evaluation frameworks, and analyzing school accountability policies. She employs causal inference methods—including quasi-experimental designs—and specializes in meta-analyses of educational interventions. Her work frequently addresses summer learning programs' impacts on student outcomes, with particular attention to sociodemographic disparities in enrichment access and mathematics achievement gaps among low-income populations. She integrates psychometric tools to assess standardized testing validity within policy contexts.

Analysis of her publication record (2019-2025) reveals a consistent trajectory in methodological innovation for education policy research. She has pioneered applications of Gaussian process regression in multidimensional regression discontinuity designs to overcome limitations of traditional analytic approaches, while her extensive meta-analytic work establishes evidence bases for summer learning interventions across cognitive, non-cognitive, and behavioral domains. Her scholarship bridges educational measurement, quantitative methodology, and K-12 policy implementation.

Her professional recognitions include:

• PIER (Partnering in Education Research) Fellow, Center for Education Policy Research
• Equity and Inclusion Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Summer Institute for Computational Social Science participant
• Just Education Policy Institute for Developing Scholars participant

Dr. An has collaborated with state education agencies including the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education during her tenure as a research analyst at Brown University. Her current work continues this practice-oriented focus through quantitative analysis of policy effects on student outcomes, though specific grant funding details and advising activities were not documented in available sources.