Sharing insights on civic tech, digital transformation, and building platforms for the public interest
Speaking engagements at conferences, universities, and professional events on civic technology, open data, and digital government.
Session on how the NJ Department of Community Affairs built the Homelessness Economic Risk Framework (HERF), a ZIP code-level risk model with a conversational GPT interface, and used it to model the effects of federal budget proposals on New Jersey.
Panel on the economic development case for affordable housing and the data tools DCA has built to help communities make that case.
Recorded webinar introducing NJHOMES Atlas, the statewide map of municipally owned vacant land that lets New Jersey CDBG grantees meet the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act's October 2026 publication rule.
Interdisciplinary panel examining AI's impact on education, work, governance, and civic life at Stockton University's Hughes Center conference.
Career panel discussion with Bloustein School alumni sharing insights on careers in public informatics, data analytics, and AI across government, tech, and startup sectors.
Panel discussion on using data-driven approaches to address housing instability, predict homelessness risk, and prepare for federal policy changes in uncertain times.
Workshop demonstrating state-ready, advanced AI workflows including vibe-coding websites, regulation-aware chatbots, and practical guardrails for bringing AI from concept to production in government settings.
In-depth conversations about building civic technology, government modernization, and the intersection of policy and code.
Discussion with DCA leadership on how data is shaping decisions and the tools being built to collect, analyze, and share information across the department.
Media coverage of civic technology projects and digital government initiatives.
NJ DCA announced NJHOMES Atlas, a free tool for mapping the vacant land towns own under a new federal rule. The release quotes me on why it was built.
Route Fifty's national coverage of New Jersey reaching Functional Zero for veteran homelessness, with Gavin Rozzi on the data systems behind it.
New Jersey was named one of 11 states in New America's Eviction Data Response Network. I'm on the state team building the eviction data infrastructure behind it.
Coverage of receiving the Governor's Team of Excellence Award for A4/S50 affordable housing data implementation work at NJDCA.
Professional headshot and bio available for media use
Gavin Rozzi is a government technology executive and data scientist in New Jersey. As the founding Director of the DHCR Data Center at New Jersey's Department of Community Affairs, he leads an in-house civic technology team that builds modern web applications and data infrastructure for affordable housing and community development programs.
He has worked on the policy side and written the code, so his team can take a statute and build the service it calls for. The tools they have built cover all 564 New Jersey municipalities.
Before joining state government, Rozzi founded OPRAmachine, New Jersey's first statewide freedom of information platform, which processed over 75,000 public records requests and released 250GB of government data before he stepped down in 2024. He has also published open-source tools used by researchers nationwide, including zipcodeR, an R package on CRAN with 53+ peer-reviewed citations (as of March 2026).
His career spans academic research as founding Data Scientist at the Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Lab, where he established technical infrastructure and analytical capabilities for urban policy research. He also served as a Research Affiliate at the New Jersey State Policy Lab, leading research on the opioid crisis through advanced spatial data analysis.
Rozzi holds an M.S. in Data Science & Strategic Analytics and a B.A. in Political Science from Stockton University. He holds the Certified Public Manager (CPM) credential from the New Jersey program administered by the Civil Service Commission and delivered by Rutgers SPAA, where his capstone modernized customer service for the State's largest housing division. He was part of the A4-S50 implementation team that received the 2025 Governor's Team of Excellence Award, and he took first place in the 3D category of the 2022 NJ DEP GIS Mapmaking Contest.
Expertise Areas: Civic Technology, Digital Transformation, Data Science & Analytics, Full-Stack Development, Government Innovation, Open Data, Public Records Policy, GIS & Spatial Analysis
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