Bladimir Lopez-Prado is a research database coordinator in SRI Education where his work focuses on managing, collecting, processing, manipulating, and analyzing data to support the broad diversity of research projects within the Division.

He has extensive experience managing large, complex datasets and is also skilled in extracting educational and demographic data from national and state databases, such as the National Center for Educational Statistics, the U.S. Census, and the California Department of Education’s Standardized Testing and Reporting program. He provides support for data management, processing, and analysis for more than 25 projects per year.

Prior to joining SRI, Lopez-Prado was a researcher and instructor at the Universidad Autonoma in Chapingo, Mexico. He also worked as a research analyst for the Santa Clara County Office of Education in San Jose, California.

Lopez-Prado earned his BS in agricultural engineering/quantitative methods at the Universidad Autonoma in Chapingo, Mexico. He received his MBA in project evaluation at Michoacan State University in Mexico.

Key projects

1. Ready to Learn Initiative
2. Evaluation of the SEED Grant on New Teacher Center Preservice Support Automated Collaboration Skills Assessment