We are excited to announce our 2024 cohort, which includes three exceptional trainees from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Each trainee brings valuable experience, and we invite you to explore their backgrounds and experiences below!

Joshua Rosen

Begin Date: Fall 2023
Discipline: Public Policy and Urban Affairs
PhD Advisor: Prof. Dan O’Brien

Research Interest: Complex systems, causal inference, and harnessing big data for empirical applications in urban economics

Mahnaz Vahdat

Begin Date: Summer 2024
Discipline: Interdisciplinary Engineering
PhD Advisor: Prof. Michael Kane

Research Interests: Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning

Christopher Curtis

Begin Date: Fall 2023
Discipline: Computer Science
PhD Advisor: Prof. Saiph Savage

Research Interests: Large Language Models, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI-based tools for gig workers