Phone: (972) 883-3808 | tmiller@utdallas.edu
Dr. Trey Miller is an associate professor of economics and director of the Texas Schools Project in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Miller has led mixed methods research projects with multidisciplinary research teams for clients including the Institute of Education Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Greater Texas Foundation, and the Houston Endowment. Miller has led three IES-funded research projects with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), which are focused on informing the implementation and scaling of statewide reform to policies surrounding the delivery of postsecondary developmental education in Texas. Miller also currently serves as the co-principal investigator of the College Completion Network, which engages in research and coordinates the activities and dissemination strategies of five aligned IES-funded research projects evaluating strategies to improve student success in college. Miller also recently completed a statewide study of dual credit education programs for THECB, and a study for the Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest assessing transitions to postsecondary education for students with disabilities in Texas.
In addition to research reports and briefs, Miller’s research has been published in top-tier journals including the American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Research in Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education, Economics of Education Review and Demography. Miller also has extensive experience presenting research to policymakers and practitioners including the THECB, Texas Association of Community Colleges, the Texas Governor’s Office, and the Texas Senate and House Education Committees; and his commentaries have appeared in outlets including the Texas Tribune, U.S. News and World Report, and the RAND Blog.
Miller received his PhD in economics from Stanford University.
Phone: (972) 883-2964 | hkosiewicz@utdallas.edu
Dr. Holly Kosiewicz’s research broadly investigates the effectiveness and implementation of efforts designed to improve college access and success, particularly among traditionally underserved students. As a mixed methods researcher, she has conducted studies investigating developmental education, dual credit coursework, student mental health, and the impacts of COVID-19 on community colleges. Her work has been published in the American Education Research Journal, Research in Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education, and Community College Review, and funded by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES), the Spencer Foundation, Greater Texas Foundation, the Trellis Foundation, and U.S. Congress. Kosiewicz received her PhD in urban education policy from the University of Southern California.
Phone: (972) 883-2482 | camila.morales@utdallas.edu
Camila Morales is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. She also serves as the Director of Research for the Texas Schools Project and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Education Research Center. Her research interests lie at the intersection of education economics, labor economics, and the economics of immigration. Specifically, she studies the impact of immigration policies on the labor market outcomes of young adults, as well as the efficacy of school-level programs and peer interactions on the academic achievement of immigrants, refugees, and English Learners.
Phone: (972) 883-5478 | zxl063000@utdallas.edu
Mark Lu is the manager of data resources and research support operations at the Texas Schools Project. As such, he is responsible for downloading data and managing data organization, translation, and verification, managing project permissions and setting up the working environment for the researchers in Linux system, managing and re-patching on-site thin client system, configuring NoMachine on server side.
Mark joined the Texas Schools Project started from 2009 as a data team lead. He holds two Master’s degrees, in geospatial information science from The University of Texas at Dallas, and computer science from Prairie View A&M University.
Phone: (972) 883-4939 | Jessica.Guzman@UTDallas.edu
Jessica Guzman is an associate financial analyst for the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS), the Texas Schools Project, and the Institute for Urban Policy Research (IUPR). She provides assistance with managing grants in EPPS, and she manages budgets and grants for the Texas Schools Project and IUPR.
Guzman joined The University of Texas at Dallas in 2022 following a 20-year career in mortgage finance operations.
Arslan Khalid is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) expected to graduate in summer 2025. His research is centered around education policy development and analysis. His dissertation focuses on teacher turnover in Texas public schools.
Arslan currently is working on two research projects that are closely tied together. The first project looks at the impact of COVID-19 on trends in teacher turnover. The second aims to uncover the impact of the four-day school week schedule on teacher turnover and student achievement.
Daniel.VargasCastano@UTDallas.edu
Daniel Alejandro Vargas Castaño is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Texas Schools Project (TSP). Daniel has a BS with a major in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Currently Daniel is an Economics PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests are economics of education, applied microeconomics, and labor economics.
Dareem Antoine is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Texas Schools’ Project (TSP) where he supports the project’s research mission. Dareem has a BS in Mathematics, BBA in Economics, and four-years of experience as a classroom educator in a major urban school district.
Currently he is an Economics PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas. His academic pursuits are rooted in K-12 education, with research interests in education inequity, student labor market outcomes, education and economic growth, and education technology and innovation.
Siyuan Luo is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests are in applied microeconomics and education economics, with a specific focus on the peer effects at the post-secondary level and same-race match between students and instructors in higher education.