
Student Fellows & Project Leads
Meet the latest group of DSSG participants from all over the country: Student Fellows and Project Leads.
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
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Silas Gifford, Student Fellow
Master’s Student
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond
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Katherine Grisanzio, Student Fellow
Doctoral Student
Psychology, Harvard University
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond
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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
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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
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Brian Leung, Student Fellow
Doctoral Student
Political Science, University of Washington
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond
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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
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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
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DSSG 2023 Project Leads & Data Scientists
Dharma Dailey, Human Centered Design Mentor
Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington
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Madeline Gaumer, Data Scientist
Data Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond
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Bernease Herman, Data Scientist
Data Science Fellow
eScience Institute, University of Washington
Data Scientist At-Large
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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
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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
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Linda Estelí Méndez-Barrientos, Community Engagement Lead
Assistant Professor
Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
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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
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Erin Trochim, Project Lead
Research Assistant Professor
Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond