Current Fellows - Spring 2025
Sofia Avila Jamesson
PhD Student, Sociology
Research Interests: Labor, Immigration, Spatial Inequality, Social Stratification
Technical Expertise: R, Python, Causal Inference
Tom Bearpark
PhD Student, Science, Technology & Environmental Policy
Research interests: Climate change impacts, environmental economics, applied econometrics
Technical expertise: R, Python, Julia, Causal Inference, Spatial Data, Data visualisation
Jeron Fenton
PhD Student, Politics & Social Policy
Research Interests: Race and Ethnics Politics; Electoral Politics; Black Churches; Social Policy; Survey Methods
Technical Expertise: R, GIS Mapping, Record Linkage, Big Data, Causal Inference, Experiments
Dan-Mircea Mirea
PhD Student, Psychology
Research Interests: Mental Health, Computational Psychiatry, Reinforcement Learning, Social Media, Large-Language Models
Technical Expertise: R, Python, Stan, Cognitive Modeling, Large-Language Models, Multi-Level Modeling of Social Media/App Data, Survey Research Methods (e.g. Factor Analysis), Online…
Linda Ouyang
PhD Student, Economics
Research Interests: Health Economics, Market Behavior, Labor Economics, AI and Economics
Technical Expertise: R, Python, Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Structural Econometric Modeling
Alessandra Rister Portinari Maranca
PhD Student, Sociology
Research interests: Quantitative Methods, Mathematical Sociology, Social Networks, Economic Sociology, Social Mobility, Sociology of Dating
Technical expertise: R, Python, Online Survey Experiments, Social Network Analysis, LLMs
Till Raphael Saenger
PhD Student, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: Statistical Methodology, Causal Inference with Text, Applications of Large Language Models
Technical Expertise: R, Python, Machine Learning, Statistics, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Text Analysis
Kara Schechtman
PhD Student, Computer Science
Research Interests: algorithmic fairness, algorithm evaluations and audits
Technical Expertise: causal inference, data science, decision theory, Python
Rae Yu
PhD Student, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: Causal Inference, Network Interference, Regression Discontinuity Design, Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics
Technical Expertise: R, Python, Stata, Statistics, Machine Learning
Spring 2025
Sofia Avila Jamesson, Sociology
Tom Bearpark, Technology & Environmental Policy
Jeron Fenton, Politics & Social Policy
Dan-Mircea Mirea, Psychology
Linda Ouyang, Economics
Alessandra Rister Portinari Maranca, Sociology
Till Raphael Saenger, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Kara Schechtman, Computer Science
Rae Yu, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Fall 2024
Kennedy Casey, Psychology
Zoë Gorman, Public Affairs - Security Studies
Angela Li, Sociology
Yuhan Liu, Computer Science
Jeremy McKey, SPIA
Varun Nagaraj Rao, Computer Science
Till Raphael Saenger, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Qishuo Yin, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Rae Yu, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Spring 2024
Dahyun Choi, Politics
Zoë Gorman, Public Affairs - Security Studies
Kim Kreiss, Public Affairs – Economics and Public Policy
Angela Li, Sociology
Yuhan Liu, Computer Science
Filippo Palomba, Economics
Till Raphael Saenger, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Benedikt Ströbl, Science, Technology & Environmental Policy (STEP)
Jacob Tucker, Politics
Rae Yu, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Fall 2023
Alvaro Carril, Economics
Dahyun Choi, Politics
Zoë Gorman, Public Affairs - Security Studies
Kim Kreiss, Public Affairs – Economics and Public Policy
Yuhan Liu, Computer Science
Till Raphael Saenger, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Will Schulz, Politics
Jacob Tucker, Politics
Spring 2023
Dahyun Choi, Politics
Ari Dyckovsky, Psychology
Promise Ekpo, Computer Science
Kim Kreiss, Public Affairs – Economics and Public Policy
Will Schulz, Politics
Jacob Tucker, Politics
Lai Wei, Sociology