GeoPoll is worked up to welcome Dr. Charles Lau to the group as our Chief Analysis Officer (CRO). Dr. Lau is an internationally acknowledged professional in survey analysis who focuses on harnessing modern strategies to enhance information high quality and researching new information assortment strategies. On this new position at GeoPoll, Dr. Lau will provide his technical experience in analysis to help GeoPoll’s cellular device-driven information assortment tasks.
He joins GeoPoll from RTI Worldwide, the place he led multi-mode surveys and carried out analysis on survey strategies for 12 years. He was a survey methodologist for a decade and most lately led RTI’s Worldwide Survey Analysis Program.
Dr. Lau has carried out surveys in additional than 30 nations for shoppers within the worldwide improvement and industrial sectors. His expertise consists of examine design, questionnaire improvement and testing, sampling, information assortment, information processing, and evaluation. Dr. Lau has used a number of modes—cell phone, face-to-face, and internet—to check various matters around the globe. He has carried out public opinion surveys with most of the people and particular populations for the U.S. State Division, USAID, and the Pew Analysis Middle. With the U.S. CDC, he supported Ministries of Well being in 10 nations to make use of cellphones for illness surveillance. Dr. Lau additionally led a program of nationally consultant surveys on expertise adoption with over 200,000 respondents in 12 nations.
His scientific analysis focuses on enhancing information high quality by means of modern survey strategies, sampling, and measurement methods. He has printed greater than 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals, such because the Worldwide Journal of Public Opinion Analysis, Survey Analysis Strategies, and the Journal of Worldwide Improvement, and lately served as an Professional Panel Member and Co-Moderator for a U.S. Nationwide Academies of Sciences panel on the standard of worldwide survey information.
“I’m delighted to hitch GeoPoll because the Chief Analysis Officer,” stated Charles Lau. “GeoPoll is a world chief in cellular analysis: its expertise platform allows scientifically legitimate, multi-mode surveys to help our shoppers’ data-driven resolution making. I look ahead to supporting GeoPoll’s mission and advancing to GeoPoll’s modern information assortment methodologies.”
Dr. Lau holds a PhD in Sociology and Masters in Epidemiology from the College of California, Los Angeles and a BA in Sociology from Brown College.
