PEOPLE

Riley Tucker is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago. His work seeks to advance and develop scientific theories about cities and neighborhoods using computational methods to merge traditional data sources with geospatially informed online data sets such as Twitter, Yelp, and Foursquare.   Read more

Gaby is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience Program at the University of Chicago. She received her B.S. in Psychology and completed minors in neuroscience and music technology… Read more

Catherine is a fourth year in the integrative-neuroscience program. She graduated from Princeton with a background and interest in exploring social and moral cognition at the intersection of various disciplines, including law and other societal institutions… Read more

Elizabeth received her B.A. in Neuroscience with a minor in Literature from Hamilton College (‘23), where she completed an honors thesis investigating the role of parasympathetic activity, depressive symptomatology, and attentional deployment in affective evaluation of images. As a research fellow, she… Read more

Elizabeth received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Iowa in 2021 where she researched the twitching movements that occur during REM sleep in mice and rats at developmental ages. Her current research interests focus on how different environments affect cognition… Read more

Alfred holds a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and is currently an MA student in the Computational Social Science program at the University of Chicago. His research interests include brain-based prediction of cognitive processes’ outcomes and exploring deep learning applications in neuroscience research.

Loizos is a graduate student in the MACSS program concentrating on sociology. He holds an Integrated Master’s in applied mathematics and physics and an MSc in mathematical modelling by the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.). His  research interests are interdisciplinary and include computational, mathematical and network sociology. His work at the Environmental Neuroscience Lab will focus on contagion of emotional sentiment in urban environments.

Chirag is interested in uncovering insights from large scale data with applications in Social Science and Trust and Safety. He also has broader interests in innovation and entrepreneurship. He is pursuing grad studies at University of Chicago and holds a Master of Engineering from UC Berkeley and Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from NITK.

Bobby is a rising second-year undergraduate at UChicago majoring in Mathematics and Economics. He is driven by a passion for the social sciences and is interested in using quantitative methods to answer important political, economic, and social questions. Outside of school, Bobby loves playing the saxophone, reading, and crocheting.

John is an undergrad at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, studying Plant Biotechnology. His volunteerism in environmental restoration and passion for plants and nature intersects with his interest in medicine and human health. His research interests dive into how environmental inequities contribute to population health disparities in urban communities. By using tree-based bioindicators, we could measure pollution impacts within communities. Apart from his research interests, he plays hockey at the University of Illinois and loves the outdoors!