Erin Abbott
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Erin is an Environmental and Urban Studies major and pre-med at the College. She is currently working on a project researching air quality and health in Chicago.
Tony Aburaad, A.B.
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Tony Aburaad is a Research Assistant at the Center for Spatial Data Science and a Masters student in Computer Science. Before joining, he worked at Nielsen doing marketing analytics and more recently the Computation Institute.
Karina Acosta Ordonez
Visiting Scholar and Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Karina Acosta is a postdoctoral scholar who got her PhD in the field of Regional Science with minor in Demography at Cornell University. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a researcher at the Center for Regional Economic Studies at the Central Bank of Colombia. She also has a B.A. in Economics from the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). Her research focuses on poverty, spatial statistics and population dynamics.
Javier Andres Rojas Aguilera
Data Science Fellow: Social-Spatial Networks
Javier Andres Rojas Aguilera is a student in the Master in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MSCAPP) at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Javier previously worked as an econometrician at the Colombian National Planning Department, where he developed a passion for data-driven policy-making and data visualization. He holds a B.A. in economics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Javier will work with HeRoP lab researchers to examine how social networks and social geography affect HIV and HCV risks among young persons who inject drugs from suburban and rural.
Vidal Anguiano Jr.
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Fusing his love for technology and smarter governance, Vidal Anguiano Jr. is driven to help government use data science and analytics more effectively, ethically, and equitably. He is excited by the prospect of local governments using spatial data science tools to implement localized, data-driven policy. He is currently a Data Science Consultant with Accenture Federal Services, specializing in implementing machine learning solutions for federal agencies. He holds a M.S. in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MS-CAPP) from the Harris School of Public Policy and is a graduate of the College at the University of Chicago.
Zander Arnao
Summer Institute in Social Research Methods Intern and Quad Undergraduate Research Scholar, Center for Spatial Data Science
Zander is a third-year Public Policy student with a strong interest in applying data to the study of governance. He is a Fellow at the Summer Institute in Social Research Methods, and his research interests lie in studying the public regulation of technology companies, particularly social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Çağlayan Bal
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Çağlayan is a second-year Ph.D. student in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is interested in using GIS and remote sensing techniques to understand long-term human-environment interactions in archaeological data. She holds a BSc in Environmental Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU, Turkey), a BA in Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology from Ankara University (Turkey), and an MSc in Settlement Archaeology from METU.
Desireé Becerra
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Desireé is a first-year MPP student at the Harris School. She is interested in incorporating gender perspectives in research on development and inequality, especially using data science and spatial analysis techniques. Her professional experience has been mainly in international organizations in the areas of local government, project management, and infrastructure. She has completed masters in Public Management from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores en Administración (IESA) and Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Vera Beilinson
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Vera Beilinson is a third year student at the University of Chicago specializing in computational and applied mathematics. She is helping to improve CSDS's GeoDa software program by tracking bugs and testing fixes.
Serena Bernstein
Research Associate, HEROP
Serena Bernstein is a rising second year in the College majoring in Public Policy with a minor in History. She loves research and is particularly passionate about health disparities and global development. She especially looks forward to using geospatial tools to explore these areas.
Liang Cai, MA
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Liang Cai received his MA in social sciences from UChicago. He is interested in urban sociology, environmental criminology, and human geography. At CSDS he is helping to test functions for the new version of GeoDa and more.
Kenna Camper
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Kenna is a student in the College majoring in Visual Art. She is working on projects for the US Covid Atlas, and is interested in data visualization
Nick Carola
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Nick Carola is a student at the University of Chicago's College. He is helping to improve CSDS's GeoDa software program by tracking bugs and testing fixes.
Cyrus Caughey
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Cyrus Caughey is a second year in the College majoring in Geographical Sciences and Statistics. He is also Vice President of the Tobler Society, which is the Youthmappers Chapter on campus.
Laura Chen
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Laura Chen is a fourth year at the College, majoring in Creative Writing. She is interested in storytelling via data visualization, digital analytics, and social media. She is currently working on communications for the US Covid Atlas project.
Ruxin Chen, B.S.
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Ruxin Chen is a master student of Computational Social Science at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include income inequality measure, hypothesis testing and bootstrapping procedure. She is helping to develop and improve methodologies in spatial econometrics.
Allie Chu
Quad Research Scholar, Center for Spatial Data Science
Allie is a third year undergraduate student in the College double majoring in Computer Science and Media Arts and Design with a minor in Social Problems, Inequality, and Change. She is interested in data visualization and the way it can be applied to spatial data to make it approachable and digestible. In her free time, Allie captains UChicago’s Ultimate Frisbee Team.
Maia Conrado
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Maia Conrado is an intern at the Center and a second-year Computer Science major in the University of Chicago's College. She has worked at Motorola Solutions as a UX Design/Software Development intern and at the University of Chicago Research Computing Center.
Andrés Crucetta
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Andrés Crucetta is a candidate for the Masters in Computational Analysis for Public Policy (MSCAPP) at the University of Chicago. He’s interested in using technology and data to create healthier communities. Prior to UChicago, he worked in the healthcare sector helping medical centers use data to create a better patient experience and reach more people. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Yan Cui, B.S.
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science and School of Social Service Administration
Yan Cui is a masters student in Computer Science at UChicago. He has a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, where he studied Computer Science. Previously, he worked at the National Lab of Intelligent Technology & Systems at Tsinghua University.
Marcos Falcone
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Marcos is a student in UChicago's MA Program in the Social Sciences who is currently concentrating in Geographic Information Science. Since graduating with a BA in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato di Tella, he has worked in the Argentine public and private sector. He is currently interested in the study of the intersection between voting patterns and spatial processes.
Irene Farah Rivadeneyra, M.A.
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Irene is a Research Associate at the Center. She has a Bachelor’s in Political Science from ITAM in Mexico City and a Master’s in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. She previously worked doing poverty measurement research for the Mexican government. Her current research interests are social dynamics, access to services, and urbanization.
Irena Gao
Intern, Center for Spatial Data Science
Irena is a third-year high school student at the Illinois Math & Science Academy. She is an avid learner and passionate about understanding computation for social good.
Jacob Gaynor
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Jacob Gaynor is a fourth-year geographical science major and computer science minor in the College. He is also an Urbanism Research Assistant, working on the City Cents project to map and analyze where public money is spent.
Adriana Gonzales
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Adriana Gonzales is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, entering her 3rd year as an Anthropology and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies double major. She is a passionate advocate for students and global communities of color, engaging in various on- and off-campus opportunities to use her skills for the greater good. She is currently translating and disseminating geospatial research relevant to current policy making so it is accessible to a wider audience, ultimately showing people why thinking geospatially matters.
Chandler Hall
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Chandler is a current MPP student at the Harris School and graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.A. in Political Science and Legal Studies. Chandler started his career in the classroom as a City Year AmeriCorps volunteer serving Southeast Washington, D.C. He also worked at the Afterschool Alliance, where he helped expand opportunities to after school programs in areas impacted by the opioid crisis.
Yeqing Han
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Yeqing Han is an MSc student in Spatial Data Science at the Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development at Henan University. Her core research interests include spatial modeling and Python programming. Yeqing is currently working on regional economic analysis with spatio-temporal models and remote sensing data.
Ethan Jiang
Summer Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Ethan Jiang is a student in the College majoring in Economics with a specialization in Data Science. He is interested in the spatial dimensions of environmental justice and public health, particularly through the lenses of quantitative analysis and data visualization.
Ziqian (Alexa) Jin
Research Intern, Center for Spatial Data Science
Alexa Jin is a rising second year in the college studying Math and Economics. She is working with the CSDS on a spatial project that explores the multi-dimensional risk environment impacting the opioid crisis in the US.
Sam Joyce
Social Science Division (SSD) Intern, Center for Spatial Data Science
Sam is a third-year Environmental & Urban Studies major in the College. He is co-president of the labor solidarity group Students Organizing United with Labor and a fact-checker for the South Side Weekly. As an SSD intern, he is focusing on identifying hotspots of fentanyl-related deaths within urban, suburban and rural areas of New Jersey. Additionally, he is determining if there are any differences in the specific locations where fentanyl-related deaths occur (in residences, in public areas, etc.) by geographic zone.
Saurabh Kalra
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Saurabh Kalra is a Master in Science in Environmental Science and Policy (MSESP) candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy, where he focusses on Environmental and Health Policy. He did his college from Ohio State University in Economics followed by a two-year Teach for India Fellowship. Saurabh is excited to join the CSDS and will be working on the Spatial-Temporal analysis of healthcare data.
Isaac Kamber
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Isaac Kamber is a student at the University of Chicago's College with a research assistanship of the Social Science Undergraduate Research Initiative. He is working on making sensor data from the Array of Things Project and satellite data from NASA more accessible to researchers and the public.
James Keane
Atlas Spatial Data Science RA
James is a second-year graduate student pursuing an MSc in Statistics. He aims to use data driven techniques to make inferences on the relationships of societal factors and environmental phenomena.
Yutian Lai
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Yutian is a second-year Masters in Computational Social Science (MACSS) student, interested in spatial data science.
Liana Lan
Research Associate, HEROP
Liana is a first-year MPP student at the Harris School and also a pianist of the Piano Performance Program at the Music Department of UChicago. She graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences with a B.S. in Human Geography and Urban-rural Planning. She was also a visiting student at the Department of Applied Mathematics of Columbia University. Her research interests include big geo-data mining and regional development.
Patrick Lavallee Delgado
Research Assistant, Harris School of Public Policy and Center for Spatial Data Science
Patrick is a candidate for the MS degree in Computational Analysis and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, jointly administered by the Department of Computer Science and the Harris School of Public Policy. His research and policy interests include evidence-based approaches to human capital development in Maine. At Harris and with the Center, he assists Professor Dan Black and Dr. Jamie Saxon with studies of rural brain drain. Patrick is an elected executive of Harris Student Government. Prior to pursuing graduate studies, he held management positions in higher education, start-up finance, and state events. He received his BA degree in Government from Bowdoin College.
Angela Li, B.A.
R Spatial Advocate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Angela has a dual Bachelor’s in Economics and Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago. She is leading weekly workshops to help academics improve their research computing skills and developing a website to share spatial analysis resources developed by the Center.
Olina Liang
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Olina is a rising third-year at the University of Chicago majoring in astrophysics. She is working on scraping and analyzing spatial data related to opioid overdoses in the United States.
Qiwei Lin
HEROP Data Engineer RA
Qiwei Lin is a candidate for the Masters in Computational Analysis for Public Policy (MSCAPP) with a focus on machine learning, international development, urban and health science. His research interests include how to combine novel data sources and machine learning methods to inform the allocation of social support resources and to improve the measurement of development outcomes in countries where reliable official statistics are lacking. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Political Science from University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.
Qinyun Lin, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Spatial Data Science
Qinyun Lin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Spatial Data Science. Her research interests include sensitivity analysis, causal inference, mediation analysis, social network analysis and multi-level models. Her dissertation proposes sensitivity analysis techniques for presence of spillover effects and heterogeneous treatment effects in multisite randomized control trials. Her dissertation work also looks at unobserved mediator as a post-treatment confounder in causal mediation analysis.
Yuming Liu
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Yuming Liu is a candidate in the MACSS program at the University of Chicago. He focuses on analyzing the spatial-temporal patterns and integrating data and spatial analysis to predict health outcomes. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics from Bard College.
Alex Liu, B.S.
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Alex is a first year master student in computer science at UChicago. Prior to joining, he worked in the Computer Game Lab at Beijing Institute of Technology. He is currently working on integrating Python code into Geoda.
Marc Loeb
Research Associate, HEROP
Marc David Loeb is a second year student of the Masters of Science in Computational Analysis in Public Policy (MSCAPP) program at the Harris School of Public Policy. Before this he studied geography, history, and public policy as a University of Chicago undergraduate. Marc takes a particular interest in the history of American suburbia, the policies that brought it about, and its implications for labor allocation, affordability, racial inequality, and the environment in the present day.
Grace Lu
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Grace Lu is a Research Assistant and a fourth-year Computer Science student in the College. She previously worked at the Knowledge Lab studying Wikipedia as an open source knowledge database and co-authoring "Amplifying the impact of open access: Wikipedia and the diffusion of science" published in JASIST.
Richard Lu
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Richard Lu is a student in the University of Chicago’s College, majoring in Applied Mathematics and Economics. Building on his interests in health economics and quantitative data analysis, he is currently working on a project researching the spatial relationships between air quality and health outcomes in Chicago.
Lorenz Menendez
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Lorenz Menendez is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago majoring in Economics and Geography. He has a strong background in GIS on a variety of open-source and proprietary platforms. He previously interned with the City of Santa Clara on a project to optimize infrastructure asset management by redefining streets as surfaces in GIS.
Moksha Menghaney, M.S.
Community and Mapping Analyst, Center for Spatial Data Science
Moksha Menghaney is a Community and Mapping Analyst at CSDS. Her interests lie in integrating GIS and spatial analysis with evidence-based methods for policy evaluation and implementation. She previously has 6 years of experience in investment management working as a quantitative modeler and holds a M.S. in Financial Engineering from Columbia University.
Gabe Morrison
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Gabe is in his third year at the College and plans to major in Public Policy and Geography. Currently studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, Gabe is working on a project analyzing the spatial relationship between air quality and health (and improving his Spanish!). Gabe is thrilled to join the Center as a Research Assistant this quarter.
Grant Morrison
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Grant Morrison is a student at the University of Chicago's College. He is helping to improve CSDS's GeoDa tutorials.
Andrew Morse, M.S.
Applied Data Fellow, Center for Spatial Data Science
Andrew Morse is an Applied Data Fellow with the Center for Spatial Data Science. As a researcher, his interest is in developing data-based solutions to improve the equity and well-being of our communities. He will hold an M.S. in Analytics from the University of Chicago as of 2021. Currently, he is working on research exploring the spatial relationships between environmental factors, social vulnerability, and health outcomes.
Cecile Murray
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Cecile Murray is a graduate student at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. At CSDS, she is helping analyze the social and spatial networks of American neighborhoods.
Ally Muszynski
Data Science Fellow: Measuring Accessibility
Ally Muszynski is a recent graduate of the College and holds a B.A. in Environmental & Urban Studies and Public Policy. In August she will graduate with an M.A. in Social Sciences with a concentration in GIS (MAPSS). She is interested in environmental equity and sustainability and hopes to pursue a PhD in this area of study in the future.
Jenny (Qiyun) Ni
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Jenny (Qiyun) Ni is a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago. She is currently double majoring in economics and statistics and is interested in social science research.
Logan Noel
College Research Fellow, Center for Spatial Data Science
Logan is a third year economics major and computer science minor at the University of Chicago. He is currently developing a framework to help researchers and city officials analyze the public's access to health and social services in urban environments.
Erin Ochoa, B.A.
Teaching Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Erin is a Master's student in the Computational Social Science program at the University of Chicago. She has a Bachelor's from the University of New Mexico, where she majored in Criminology and minored in Statistics. She has previously interned with the New Mexico Sentencing Commission, the New Mexico Statistical Analysis Center, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Yoon Hong Park
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Yoon Hong Park is a MPP candidate in Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. His research interests include policy analysis and evaluation. At CSDS, he is working on the Air Quality Project, helping to create a user-friendly interactive dashboard that visualizes the aggregated sensor/satellite data and other multiple drivers/predictors of air quality. He received his B.A.s in International Affairs and Political Science from the George Washington University.
Isaac Rand
Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Isaac is a fourth-year student in the College majoring in Geography and minoring in Statistics. He is interested in how quantitative spatial analysis can be used to understand and address processes which generate discrimination and inequity.
Anna Rzhetsky
Summer Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Anna Rzhetsky is a second year student at the University of Chicago, studying for a B.A. in Computer Science, as well as in the premedical track. Due to her strong interest in emergency medicine, she also works as an EMT in an ambulance service to gain experience in providing quality emergency care.
Jamie Saxon, Ph.D.
Fellow, Center for Spatial Data Science
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Data and Computing, University of Chicago
Jamie is a postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Data and Computing of the University of Chicago. He was previously a postdoc with CSDS and the University's Harris School of Public Policy, and remains a fellow of CSDS. He studies the accessibility of resources in neighborhoods in American cities, using large datasets, graph theory, and some computer vision. He has taught programming and statistics to MPP students at the Harris School.
Emily Selch
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Emily Selch is a second-year Master of Public Policy student at the University of Chicago. She is broadly interested in using spatial tools to better understand crime, housing, and opioid use disorder trends. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International and Global Studies from Middlebury College.
Haowen Shang
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Haowen is a masters student in Computational Social Science at the University of Chicago. She previously worked as a research assistant at Argonne and created spatial-temporal animations and analysis products for air quality sensor data. She focuses on improving methodologies for air quality estimations and is researching the impacts of air quality on health and socio-economics.
Dan Snow, MA
Fellow, Center for Spatial Data Science and Harris School of Public Policy
Dan Snow graduated from the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Masters program. His research focuses on healthcare and spatial accessibility. He also works as a data analyst and project manager at a nonprofit organization on Chicago’s north side.
Website: dfsnow.me
GitHub: github.com/dfsnow
Sinduri Soundararajan
Atlas Design & Communications RA
Sinduri is a fourth-year student studying Public Policy, Environmental Studies, and GIS at the College and working towards her Master in Public Policy at the Harris School of Public Policy. She is excited to build on her passion for environmental justice and information accessibility by working on design and communications for the US COVID Atlas project.
Rodrigo Valdes Ortiz, B.S.
Teaching Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Rodrigo is a student in the Computational Social Science Masters Program at the University of Chicago. He holds a Bachelor in Economics from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico. Before coming to Chicago, he worked in infrastructure financing.
Bibind Vasu
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Bibind Vasu is a Master in Science in Environmental Science and Policy (MSESP) candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy. His interests are in sustainable urban development and data science.
Larissa Vieira, BA
Researcher, Center for Spatial Data Science
Larissa Vieira is a geographer with experience in combining spatial analysis and ethnographic research in applied research on transportation, poverty and inequality, housing and health. At CSDS she is analyzing spatial patterns of contract-funded health and human services in relation to where services are needed.
Rachel Vigil
Data Science Fellow: Measuring Accessibility
Rachel Vigil is a rising fourth-year student in the College majoring in Environmental and Urban Studies. She has a particular interest in the intersection of access to transportation and other health and safety metrics and is excited to explore those avenues with HeRoP this summer.
Christian Villanueva
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Christian is a College student (class of 2022) with a specialization in environmental and urban studies, biology, and creative writing. He is conducting exploratory spatial analyses of open data concerning police traffic stops and altercation outcomes.
Christian Villanueva
Data Science Fellow: Build Environments
Christian Villanueva is a third-year student in the College majoring in Environmental and Urban Studies and minoring in Biology and Creative writing. He is interested in studying the spatial components of contemporary issues and learning new methods of analysis. In his free time, Christian likes to drink tea and watch terrible movies.
Ryan Wang
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Ryan is a master’s student in the social sciences. He concentrates on quantitative methods and social analysis, and his research area is in labor sociology. Ryan enjoys the computational approach to geographic sciences, and he is particularly interested in visualization of spatial data.
Andrew Warfield
Atlas Spatial Data Science RA
Andrew Warfield is a student in the Master in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MSCAPP) at the Harris School of Public Policy. Previously, Andrew was a Research Data Analyst for the Center for Geospatial Sciences at the University of California Riverside. He holds a bachelors in Public Policy from UC Riverside.
Thomas Weil
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Thomas is a Political Science Major in the college. He is assisting in the study and analysis of the economic geography of the United States.
Amanda Whaley
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Amanda is a M.S. in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MS-CAPP) candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy. She is currently working on a project to understand the use of public spaces using machine learning.
Julie Wu
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Julie Wu is a third-year geographical studies major and computer science minor in the College. She is also involved in TechTeam. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring Chicago neighborhoods, riding trains, and volunteering for Bridgeport's only low power radio station (105.5 FM).
Fanmei Xia
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Driven by her passion for social equity, Fanmei aspires to create a sustainable environment that is conducive to children’s growth and development. Integrating data science and developmental psychology, Fanmei works to inform policymakers with evidence-based research. She also serves as the Co-President at the Harris Student Government.
Wenfei Xu, PhD
Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Center for Spatial Data Science Postdoctoral Scholar
Wenfei Xu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute and the Center for Spatial Data Science with affiliation at the University of Chicago Department of Sociology. Her research topics include social-spatial stratification, segregation, race and ethnicity, computational methods, and neighborhood change in the United States. Her work ranges from an interest in the historical legacies of structural housing discrimination and its contemporary spatial-temporal manifestations to exploring the uses of big data in characterizing human activity for urban social science research. She received her PhD in urban planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and holds dual Masters in Urban Planning and Architecture from MIT and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Jiaqi (Stephanie) Yang
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Jiaqi Yang (Stephanie) is a first-year master student in the Computational Analysis and Public Policy program at UChicago. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Columbia University. Her research interests include interactive data visualization, machine learning algorithms, and applications of computational techniques in the public sector.
Chenhao Yang, B.S.
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Chenhao Yang is currently a first tear master student in computer science at UChicago. Prior to joining UChicago, he received his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in software engineering. He used to work at Microsoft Research Asia.
Calvin Zhang
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Calvin is a student in the College. He majors in Economics with a specialization in Data Science. Expanding upon his interest in economic geography, he will assist in the empirical analysis of the expression of the new economic geography in the U.S.
Hang Zhang
Research Assistant, Center for Spatial Data Science
Hang Zhang is a second-year MSc student in GIS at the Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development at Henan University in the Henan Province of China. His core research interests include CyberGIS and crowdsourcing, R and Python programming, and the application of geographical data science to economic geography.
Jinfei Zhu
Data Engineering Fellow: Spatial Infrastructures
Jinfei Zhu is a student in the Master of Arts Program in Computational Social Science (MAPSS) at the University of Chicago. Her recent research interests include analyzing and visualizing COVID-19 geospatial data and optimizing data solutions for transferring and utilizing time-series geospatial data.
Jinfei will work with HeRoP lab engineers on developing solutions for the US COVID Atlas, including enabling in-browser geospatial analytics and optimizing data management, compression, and loading processes.