Graduation Year 2026
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Lingbo Zhao | Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | International Relations/Social Data Analytics |
Morrgan Herlihy | Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University | Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University | American Politics/Social Data Analytics |
Yanran (Valerie) Li | Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University | Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University | Comparative Politics/Social Data Analytics |
Yang Song | PostDoc, Pennsylvania State University | PostDoc, Pennsylvania State University | American Politics/Social Data Analytics |
Haoyong Zhang | Senior Research Anylyst, AI Team, Gallup | Research Analyst, Panterra | |
Candice Basterfield | Data Scientist, Liberty Mutual Insurance | Data Scientist, Liberty Mutual Insurance | |
Len Chen | PostDoc, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, The University of Chicago | PostDoc, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, The University of Chicago | |
Yaqi Gong | Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong | Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
Chenyang He | User Experience Researcher, TikTok | User Experience Researcher, TikTok | |
Colby Parkinson | Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming | Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming | |
Xinyu Wang | Data Scientist, Meta | Data Scientist, Meta | |
Kaitlyn Webb (Dowden) | Visiting assistant professor of Statistics at Amherst College | Visiting assistant professor of Statistics at Amherst College. | |
Amanda Moeller | Research Associate, National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) | Research Associate, National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) | |
Danny Wang | T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Medical School | T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Medical School |
Graduation Year 2025
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Liam Essig | Research Analyst for the Center for Naval Analysis | Research Analyst for the Center for Naval Analysis | |
Dalal AlQadeeri | Assistant Professor of Marketing at Kuwait University | Assistant Professor of Marketing at Kuwait University | |
Olivia Beck | R&D Statistician at Sandia National Labs | R&D Statistician at Sandia National Labs | |
Morgan Crump | Postdoctoral Associate, University of Vermont | Postdoctoral Fellow at Gund Institute for Environment | |
Nathaniel Flemming | Institutional Research Analyst, University of Rochester | Institutional Research Analyst, University of Rochester | American Politics/Social Data Analytics |
Faith Khumalo | Instructor of Research Methods and Comparative Politics, Virginia Tech | Instructor of Research Methods and Comparative Politics, Virginia Tech | Comparative Politics/Social Data Analytics |
Kayla Kahn | Data Scientist, Verasight | Data Scientist, Verasight | |
Nitheesha Nakka | Senior Research Specialist at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) at Princeton University | Senior Research Specialist at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) at Princeton University | |
Joseph Guerriero | Data Scientist civilQ RE | Data Scientist civilQ RE | |
Sun Ah Lee | Postdoctoral Researcher at Penn State University | Postdoctoral Researcher at Penn State University |
Graduation Year 2024
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Michael Burnham | Assistant Professor, Texas A&M | Post-doc, Princeton University | American Politics/Social Data Analytics |
Zicheng Cheng | Assistant Professor, University of Arizona | Assistant Professor, University of Arizona | |
Marjan Davoodi | Research Data Analyst, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science | Research Data Analyst, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science | |
Tran Tran | Data Scientist, Microsoft | Data Scientist, Microsoft | |
Amrita Arcot | Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine | Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine |
Graduation Year 2023
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Sayali Phadke | Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State Behrend | Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State Behrend | |
Christopher Seto | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University | |
Jeremy Seeman | Data Science fellow, University of Michigan | Data Science fellow, University of Michigan | |
Muhammed Cifci | Ntrepid | Ntrepid | |
Chase Bloch | Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, New Zealand | Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, New Zealand | |
Sangyeon Kim | Indiana University, post-doc | Indiana University, post-doc | |
Rachel Peng | Assistant Professor. Rochester Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor. Rochester Institute of Technology | |
Ryan Wang | Assistant Professor, School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor, School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology |
Graduation Year 2022
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Samuel Bestvater | Computational Social Scientist, Pew Data Labs | Computational Social Scientist, Pew Data Labs | Political Science and Social Data Analytics |
Sara Francisco | Assistant Professor, Sociology, Grinnell College | Assistant Professor, Sociology, Grinnell College | Sociology and Social Data Analytics |
Maya Merhi | Associate Solutions Consultant, Axis Group | Associate Solutions Consultant, Axis Group |
Graduation Year 2021
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Fangcao Xu | Machine Learning Software Engineer, Google | Machine Learning Software Engineer, Google | Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Omer Yalcin | Lecturer, Data Analysis and Computational Social Science, UMass-Amherst | Lecturer, Data Analysis and Computational Social Science, UMass-Amherst | Political Science and Social Data Analytics |
Amy Zhang | Scientist I – Bioinformatics, SomaLogic | Scientist I – Bioinformatics, SomaLogic | Statistics and Social Data Analytics |
Lewen Wei | Postdoctoral Researcher,
Tampere University | Postdoctoral Researcher,
Tampere University |
Graduation Year 2020
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Markus Neumann | Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan Media Project, Wesleyan University | Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan Media Project, Wesleyan University | Political Science and Social Data Analytics |
Ben Sheng | Mathematical Statistician, FDA | Mathematical Statistician, FDA | Statistics (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Steven Morgan | Data Scientist, Facebook (Survey and Demographic Research) (2020-) | Data Scientist, Facebook (Survey and Demographic Research) (2020-) | Political Science and Social Data Analytics |
Cassie McMillan | Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northeastern University | Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northeastern University | Sociology and Demography (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Michelle Nixon | Assistant Research Professor, Information Sciences and Technologies, Penn State | Assistant Research Professor, Information Sciences and Technologies, Penn State | Statistics and Social Data Analytics |
Soyoung Park | Assistant Professor, Marketing Department – Hospitality Management, Florida Atlantic University | Assistant Professor, Marketing Department – Hospitality Management, Florida Atlantic University |
Graduation Year 2019
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Xi Liu | Software Engineer, Google Cloud AI | Software Engineer, Google Cloud AI | Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Matthew Denny | Research Scientist, Facebook Core Data Science (2019-). | Research Associate, Georgetown University, Massive Data Institute (2019-). | Political Science and Social Data Analytics |
Zhanna Terechshenko | Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, Social Media and Political Participation (SMAPP) Lab | Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, Social Media and Political Participation (SMAPP) Lab | Political Science and Social Data Analytics |
Jonathan Nelson | Vermont Department of Transportation | User Experience Designer, Strava (2015-2018) | Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
John Schoeneman | Watkins Global Trade Scholars Supervisor, Oklahoma State University | Watkins Global Trade Scholars Supervisor, Oklahoma State University | Political Science and Social Data Analytics |
Xiaoran Sun | Stanford University Data Science Scholar (2020-) | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, The Screenomics Lab (2019-) | Human Development and Family Studies (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Graduation Year 2018
Name | Current Placement | Initial Placement | Specialization |
|---|---|---|---|
Joshua Snoke | Associate Statistician, RAND Corporation | Associate Statistician, RAND Corporation | Statistics (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Jason Bendezú | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Child Development, University of Minnesota | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Child Development, University of Minnesota | Psychology |
Rachel Koffer | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh | Human Development & Family Studies |
Jennifer Mason | Professor of Practice, University of Arizona | Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA (2018-19) | Geography |
Carolynne Hultquist | Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University (2020-) | Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University | Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Alexander Ororbia | Assistant Professor, Computer Science, RIT | Assistant Professor, Computer Science, RIT | Informatics (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Ryan McMahon | Senior Data Scientist, Google | Data Scientist, Verisk Maplecroft | Political Science (SoDA Graduate Minor) |
Fridolin Linder | Research Scientist, Core Data Science,
Meta | Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Social Media and Politics,
New York University | Political Science (SoDA Graduate Minor) |