Geoffrey Paulin, Ph.D., is a Senior Economist in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program. He has written numerous articles using various aspects of the CE data, which have been published in periodicals such as  Journal of Consumer Affairs, for which he serves as a member of the Editorial Board, Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, and the Monthly Labor Review.  Currently, he is examining the relationship of student loan debt to expenditures, income, and accumulation of assets and other debts for young adults, as well as coauthoring work on how participants in the Food Stamps and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programs fared before, during, and after the 2007-09 recession. A cofounder of the CE program's annual Microdata Users' Workshop, which provides free, in-depth training in the use of CE microdata, Dr. Paulin frequently organizes sessions for economic and other conferences at which he speaks.  In addition to presenting results of his research, he leads specialized workshops at these events to provide training in use of CE tables and microdata, and in the writing process:  from formulating an idea to publishing the findings.  He also enjoys visiting campuses to speak to students--undergraduate and graduate--and faculty members about the uses of the CE data, his own research, or other topics of interest.