
Student Fellows & Project Leads
Meet the latest group of DSSG participants from all over the country: Student Fellows and Project Leaders.
See all the past DSSG participants – click for the full list.
DSSG 2023 Student Fellows

Aminat Adefolu, Student Fellow
Doctoral Student
College of Science and Engineering, Central Michigan University
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond

Silas Gifford, Student Fellow
Master’s Student
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond

Katherine Grisanzio, Student Fellow
Doctoral Student
Psychology, Harvard University
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond

Yuanning Huang, Student Fellow
Master’s Student
Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Project: Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

Kimberly Kreiss, Student Fellow
Master’s Student
Public Affairs, Princeton University
Project: Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

Brian Leung, Student Fellow
Doctoral Student
Political Science, University of Washington
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond

Maia Powell, Student Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate
Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced
Project: Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

Aanchal Setia, Student Fellow
Doctoral Student
Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Project: Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin
DSSG 2023 Project Leads & Data Scientists

Dharma Dailey, Human Centered Design Mentor
Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington

Madeline Gaumer, Data Scientist
Data Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond
Bernease Herman, Data Scientist
Data Science Fellow
eScience Institute, University of Washington
Data Scientist At-Large

Vaughn Iverson, Data Scientist
Research Scientist
eScience Institute, University of Washington
Project: Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

Akshay Mehra, Project Lead
Assistant Professor
Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
Project: Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

Sameer Shah, Project Lead
Assistant Professor
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
Project: Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin