2013 Fellows & Mentors – Data Science for Social Good Fellowship

2013 Fellows

Samrachana Adhikari

Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University

Andres Akle Carranza

Math
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Scott Alfeld

Computer Science
UW Madison

Sophia Alice

Math
University of Chicago

Zahra Ashktorab

HCI
University of Maryland

Jonathan Auerbach

Statistics
Columbia University

Varoon Bashyakarla

Statistics, Economics
Yale University

Jordan Bates

Computer Science
Arizona State University

John Brock

Computer Science
UC Irvine

Christopher Brown

Linguistics
UT Austin

Michael Castelle

Sociology
University of Chicago

Giorgio Cavaggion

Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

Kyla Cheung

Computer Science
Columbia University

Walter Dempsey

Statistics
University of Chicago

Sarah Evans

Computer Science
Stanford University

Andrea Fernandez Conde

Political Science, Math
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Adam Fishman

Math
Yale University

Jette Henderson

Computer Science
UT Austin

Kayla Jacobs

Computer Science
Technion: Israel Institute of Technology

Kwang-Sung Jun

Computer Science
UW Madison

Nathan Leiby

Software Developer
Harvard University

Allen Lin

Computer Science, Policy
Cambridge University

Edward McFowland III

Computer Science, Policy
Carnegie Mellon University

Paul Meinshausen

Psychology
Harvard University

Brenna Miller

Statistics
University of Michigan

Evan Misshula

Criminal Justice
City University of New York

Jit Nandi

Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University

Alessandro Panella

Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

Ahmad Qamar

Physics, Math
University of Chicago

Emily Rowe

Public Policy
University of Chicago

Zach Seeskin

Statistics
Northwestern University

Nihar Shah

Economics
Harvard University

Camelia Simoiu

Human Dynamics
MIT

Sriram Somanchi

Computer Science, Policy
Carnegie Mellon University

Edward Su

Physics
MIT

Vidhur Vohra

Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Joseph Walsh

Political Science
University of Alabama

Skylar Whorton

Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Min Xu

Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

2013 Mentors

Aron Culotta

Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Elena Eneva

Management Scientist at Accenture, machine learning expert

Nick Mader

Economist PhD at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Tom Plagge

Astrophysicist PhD turned data scientist

Brandon Willard

Statistician at the Booth School of Business

Michelangelo D'Agostino

Former senior analyst for Obama campaign, current data scientist at Braintree

2013 Volunteer Mentors

Derek Eder

Open government developer, founder of DataMade

Forest Gregg

Sociology PhD student at the University of Chicago

Will High

Data scientist at Sociocast, former astrophysicist

Dean Malmgren

Data scientist, co-founder of Datascope Analytics

Q Ethan McCallum

Professional-services consultant, author, and speaker.

Svetlozar Nestorov

Lecturer at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science

Irina Matveeva

Senior software developer and research at Dieselpoint

Max Shron

Data strategist based in New York City, former data scientist at OkCupid

Mike Stringer

Data scientist, co-founder of Datascope Analytics

2013 Staff

Rayid Ghani

Chief scientist of 2012 Obama campaign, CI and Harris School fellow

Matt Gee

Policy PhD student at the University of Chicago, former analyst at U.S. Treasury

Tom Plagge

Astrophysicist PhD turned data scientist

Juan-Pablo Velez

Civic technologist with Open City, former data journalist

Kate Kusiak Galvin

Senior Associate Director of the Urban Center for Computation and Data, University of Chicago

Rob Mitchum

Staff science writer for the Computation Institute

Charlie Catlett

Director of the Urban Center for Computation and Data

2013 Advisors

Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman of Google

Jake Porway

Founder and executive director of DataKind

Ian Foster

Director of the Computation Institute