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Student Fellows & Project Leads

Meet the latest group of DSSG participants from all over the country: Student Fellows and Project Leaders.

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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


Erin Trochim, Project Lead

Research Assistant Professor
Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Project: Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond