Carrie Diaz Eaton is an Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies at Bates. As a mathematical and computational biologist, she has worked in research areas from computational neurobiology to disease ecology and evolutionary theory and uses this grounding to apply network perspectives for STEM Education research and advocacy. (more info)

Lane is a Professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and an NYU Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics. She co-founded the Coleridge Initiative, whose goal is to use data to transform the way governments access and use data for the social good through training programs, research projects and a secure data facility. (more info)

Combining the methods of computational social science and network science with the theories of communication studies, Foucault Welles studies how online communication networks enable and constrain behaviour. (more info)

Dr Alicia Boyd is a social-technical researcher guided by wisdom, patience, and thoughtfulness. Her interdisciplinary background is rooted in medicine, allowing her to approach challenges from a humanistic and reflexive approach. She has a Master's degree in both Mathematics and Higher Education from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. Throughout her career, she has worked in numerous profit and non-profit sectors. (more info)

Julia Barnett is a PhD student in Technology and Social Behavior, a dual PhD program in computer science and communications at Northwestern University. Her research interests lie in algorithmic ethics and transparency, ethical AI, NLP applications in social contexts, and the intersection of machine learning and music. (more info)

Kelly Finke is a second year Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD student in the Tarnita Lab at Princeton University. Her research focuses on developing models of contemporary cultural evolution grounded in realistic representations of human biases. Currently, Kelly is investigating the role of habit formation and cognitive dissonance in facilitating or hindering collective social change through analytical and agent-based models. As a case study, she will be investigating the role of small, habitual actions in influencing sustainable attitudes and collective action among undergraduate students. Kelly’s undergraduate training in Cognitive Science, Computational Biology, and Peace and Conflict studies influences her cross-disciplinary approaches among the social, natural, and computational sciences. (more info)

Rafiazka Hilman is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Network and Data Science at Central European University, Austria and Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She involves in various international collaborations, among others with the UNICEF Office of Innovation (Human Mobility) and Alan Turing Institute (New Forms of Data for Mobility). Specializing in Spatial Data Science and Social Network Analysis, she focuses on the interaction between people and places, characterizing the presence of spatial and temporal signatures. Currently, she is working on the spatiotemporal mixing process in urban mobility and transportation network. (more info)

Jisha Mariyam John's primary research interest is in network science. She is specifically interested in the study of vulnerability in complex networks. In support of her research, she has received a doctoral fellowship (research scholar) from IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF). (more info)

Aleks Kaye is a historian of nineteenth-century migration interested in studying the part migrants play in communication of knowledge across national and ethnic divides. She is writing a thesis at UCL entitled ‘Mapping Polish Knowledge Networks in Nineteenth-century Latin America, 1830-1890’. The project investigates the role of Polish migrants in the creation, circulation and reception of scientific knowledge in Latin America and among Polish communities in partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, through examination of books, maps and press articles authored by the migrants, and the application of Social Network Analysis methods to historical research. (more info)

Yuliia Kazmina is a PhD Candidate at the POPNET project where she focuses on the issues of socio-economic segregation in population-scale social networks. She obtained a master’s degree in Economic Policy in Global Markets from the Central European University, Hungary and currently, and is affiliated with Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. (more info)

Shriya V. Nagpal is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. Her work utilizes tools from graph theory, linear algebra, and optimization to study networks that arise from varied disciplines, ranging from electrical engineering to cancer biology. Outside of research, Shriya is passionate about the inclusion of women in mathematics and STEM fields at large. To this end, she has consistently held leadership roles in the Association for Women in Mathematics at both her undergraduate and graduate institutions. (more info)

Maria Pope is a PhD student in Neuroscience and Complex Networks and Systems. She received a B.S. in Neuroscience and the Program of Liberal Studies from the University of Notre Dame. She started a PhD at Indiana University in 2020 under Olaf Sporns. (more info)

Alyssa Smith is about to start her 2nd year of Northeastern’s Network Science PhD program. She graduated from MIT in 2017 with a degree in Humanities and Engineering with Computer Science and Comparative Media Studies, then spent 4 years working as a data engineer and data scientist. Currently, she’s interested in network formation and narrative spread on Twitter, as well as making data engineering pipelines for academic data collection. She is co-advised by Prof. David Lazer and Prof. Brooke Foucault Welles. In her spare time, she enjoys powerlifting (and holds a RI state squat record), embroidery, knitting, and spending time with her dog. (more info)

Katie Spoon is a PhD student in Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder and a Master’s student in Education Policy. Her research focuses on quantifying social inequalities, particularly by gender, race and socioeconomic status, in access to and retention within highly-educated jobs, such as those in academia, in the U.S. (more info)

Paris Wicker is a 4th Ph.D. candidate in the department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis with a doctoral minor in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Using mixed and multi methods, Paris explores sociological and equity-based perspectives on the access, success, and well-being of Black and Indigenous students, staff, and faculty in higher education, from pre-college to post-tenured. (more info)