About Austin
Austin Boyd, PhD, is the principal and founder of A. T. Boyd Consulting. He founded his first consulting company in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Knoxville, Tennessee. During that time, he worked as both an independent consultant and a full-time student at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, where he earned his doctorate in Evaluation, Statistics, and Methodology with a minor in Statistics in May of 2022.
Prior to attending the University of Tennessee, he earned his BA in Psychology with a minor in Biology from the University of Virginia in 2018. Throughout undergrad and graduate school, Austin worked as a statistics tutor for graduate and undergraduate students, a graduate research assistant and teaching assistant in evaluation and statistics based courses, and occasionally, a substitute teacher in Title I elementary schools.
While attending the University of Tennessee, Austin was also involved in student government, serving as the Graduate Student Senate’s (GSS) Legislative Steering Chair and Senate President, during the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years, respectively. During his time in the GSS he served on a number of university action committees, including the University Leadership Council, Title IX Action Collaborative, and the Commission for Disability, which he was a founding member of.
Austin has published three articles, including one on Item Response Theory and another on Social Network Analysis, and has presented at a number of national and international conferences. For copies of the articles, previous presentations, and other work samples, see the portfolio tab.
Currently, Austin lives in the Tampa Bay area with his wife, Katy, and their two beagle mixes. His wife is a graduate student in the University of South Florida’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program and a Second Lieutenant in the Army Inactive Reserves.