SPEND Team

Mauro Ampie

Senior Associate Data Scientist

Mauro Ampie serves as Senior Associate Data Scientist for the SPEND Initiative. He comes to SPEND with over five years of experience in the education finance sector, specializing in the technical steps needed to transform raw data files into standardized datasets for comparisons across districts and states. He brings to SPEND a deep commitment to helping the education research community derive the most value possible from education finance data.

In 2020, Mauro started his professional career at Education Resource Strategies (ERS), where he supported schools, districts, and states in utilizing analytics for data-driven decision making. While at ERS he led the company’s adoption of R as the analytic tool for its main service lines: financial benchmarking, course schedule, and human capital. Additionally, he co-founded the Data Strategy and Innovation practice area and built the company’s first machine learning model for financial coding.

Mauro has a Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Psychology from the University of Chicago and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.