Ning Ai

University of Illinois at Chicago

Mary Ashe

Motorola Solutions

Nadia Ayoub

Nadia Ayoub

Associate Professor at Washington and Lee University

Kate Bachtell

NORC

Prasanna Balaprakash

Prasanna Balaprakash

Assistant Computer Scientist Argonne National Laboratory

Djuro Bartulica

Harvard University

Research Interests: Architecture, City government, Computation, Data analytics, Economics, Energy, Environment, Urban planning, Landscape Ecology, Land Use Planning,
Soils, Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Non-deterministic, Multi-agent,
Python, Java

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Kshitij Batra

Senior Economist at housing.com

Research Interests: City government, Computation, Data analytics, Economics, Education, Health, Industry, Non-profit, Urban planning

batra.k@gmail.com 
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Rachel Behler

University of Chicago

Tais Bellini

Marianne Bertrand

Marianne Bertrand

Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics University of Chicago

Keith Besserud

Keith Besserud

Founder and Leader of BlackBox Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill

Research Interests: Architecture

Keith.Besserud@som.com 
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Russell Betts

IIT

Dan Black

Dan Black

Deputy Dean and Professor UChicago

Research Interests: Public Policy, Economics

danblack@uchicago.edu 
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Daniel Bliss

Assistant Professor of Political Science Illinois Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Political Science, Community Development

dbliss@iit.edu 
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Tristan Bock-Hughes

Student at University of Chicago

Maxine Brown

Maxine Brown

Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests: Computation

maxine@uic.edu 
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Christopher Browning

Christopher Browning

Professor, Department of Sociology The Ohio State University

Kate Cagney

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Health Studies; Director, Population Research Center University of Chicago

Research Interests: Sociology, Health

kacagney@uchicago.edu 
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Virginia Carlson

Data Strategist IMPACT Planning Council

Research Interests: Computation, Data Analytics

carlson.virginia@gmail.com 
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Elspeth Carruthers

UChicago

Charlie Catlett

Director, Urban Center for Computation and Data; Senior Computer Scientist University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory

Deland Chan

Deland Chan

Lecturer in Urban Studies at Stanford University

Research Interests: Architecture, Urban planning, City government

deland@stanford.edu 
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Jorge Chapa

Jorge Chapa

Professor, Sociology and Latina and Latino Studies; Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Amtiabh Chaudhary

Roger Chen

Rochester Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Computation, Data Analytics, Urban Planning

rbcgis@rit.edu 
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Lim Cheng Yee

Student at University of Chicago

Research Interests: City Government, Computation, Data Analytics, Economics, Non-profit, Sociology, Urban Planning

limchengyee@uchicago.edu 

Philip Chodrow

PhD Student at MIT, Operations Research Center

Joyce Coffee

Notre Dame

Tim Collins

Motorola Solutions

Sybil Derrible

University of Illinois at Chicago

Derek Eder

Open Data Web Developer DataMade

Research Interests: Computation, Web Development, Data Analytics

derek.eder@gmail.com 
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Hui Feng

MPC

Harriet Festing

CNT

Daniel Fink

Daniel Fink

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Research Interests: Architecture, Computation, Data Analytics, Economics, Urban Planning

danfink@mit.edu 

Ian Foster

Ian Foster

Director, Computation Institute; Senior Scientist, MCS; Professor of Computer Science University of Chicago

Louis Fox

Louis Fox

President & CEO at CENIC

Research Interests: Architecture, City Government, Industry, Mathematics, Non-profit, Sociology, Software development, Urban planning, Computation, Crime, Data analytics, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Health

lfox@cenic.org
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Janae Futrell

Senior Principal Planner at Atlanta Regional Commission

Matt Gee

Research Fellow, Urban Center for Computation and Data; PhD Student; Co-Founder, Effortless Energy University of Chicago

Research Interests: Computation, Data Analytics, Economics, Public Policy

mattgee@gmail.com 
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Joseph Germuska

Joseph Germuska

Director of Software Engineering, Knight Lab Northwestern University

Research Interests: Computation, Software Development

joeGermuska@northwestern.edu 
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Rayid Ghani

Rayid Ghani

Director, Center for Data Science and Public Policy University of Chicago

Research Interests: Data Analytics, Machine Learning

rayidghani@gmail.com 
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Kristina Gjini

Architect at DESMAN

Research Interests: Architecture, Urban Planning

kristinagjini@gmail.com 

Nora Goebelbecker

LEAN Cities Fellow; Master's Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at Federal City Council; Georgetown University

Bob Goerge

Bob Goerge

Senior Research Fellow Chapin Hall at University of Chicago

Research Interests: Computation, Public Policy

rgoerge@chapinhall.org 
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Daniel Goldsmith

Daniel Goldsmith

Student Researcher at Yeshiva University

Research Interests: Computation, Mathematics

dgoldsmith93@gmail.com 

Brett Goldstein

City of Chicago

Robert Grossman

Robert Grossman

Chief Research Informatics Officer; Director, Center in Data Intensive Science; Professor, Division of Biological Sciences University of Chicago

Research Interests: Computation, Data Analytics, Health

robert.grossman@uchicago.edu 
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Leahbellah Guzowski

Energy Policy Scientist Argonne National Laboratory

Research Interests: Computation, Public Policy, Energy

lguzowski@anl.gov 
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Catherine Haggerty

NORC

Alaina Harkness

Alaina Harkness

Program Officer, Community and Economic Development MacArthur Foundation

Research Interests: Non-profit, Community Development

aharknes@macfound.org 
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Katie Hendricks

UChicago

Geoffrey Hewings

Geoffrey Hewings

Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs; Professor, Geography and Regional Science; Professor, Economics; Professor, Urban and Regional Planning University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Public Policy, Economics, Urban Planning

hewings@illinois.edu 
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Paul Hovland

LANS Director and Computer Scientist Argonne National Laboratory

Research Interests: Computation, Software Development

hovland@mcs.anl.gov 
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Craig Howard

MacArthur Foundation

Erick Howenstine

Erick Howenstine

Chair, G&ES and Economics Northeastern Illinois University

Research Interests: Computation, Economics, Environment

e-howenstine@neiu.edu 
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John Eric Humphries

PhD Student University of Chicago

Michael Iverson

University of Illinois at Chicago

Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson

Director of Research, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Associate Professory, Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago

Aaron Joseph

City of Chicago

Dennis Judd

Professor and Department Head, Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests: Public Policy

djudd@uic.edu 
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Aaron Kadoch

Aaron Kadoch

Architect and Division Head of Interior Architecture at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

Research Interests: Architecture, Education, Software Development, Urban Planning

akadoch@uwsp.edu
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Divya Kapuria

Urban designer at University of Michigan

Research Interests: Architecture, Urban planning

diadhk@gmail.com 
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Parth Khare

Parth Khare

Data Scientist Consultant at Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Research Interests: City Government, Computation, Crime, Data Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Non-profit, Urban Planning

parthakhare@gmail.com 
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Abel Kho

Abel Kho

Assistant Professor in Medicine-General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics and Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics Northwestern University

Research Interests: Health

Abel.Kho@nmff.org 
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Stephanie Kirmer

UChicago

Robert Krawcyzk

IIT

Kate Kusiak Galvin

UrbanCCD

Yuan Lai

Student, Architect, Planner at New york University, Center for Urban science and progress

Research Interests: Architecture, Computation, Data analytics, Economics, Environment, Health, Software development, Urban planning

yuanlai22@gmail.com 
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Diana Lam

Data Scientist at Capital One

Research Interests: Architecture, City Government, Computation, Crime, Data Analytics, Economics, Urban Planning

lamdianahc@gmail.com
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Elizabeth Leake

Elizabeth Leake

Founder and President STEM-Trek

Research Interests: Computation, Education, Public Policy

itbeth2@gmail.com 
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Justine Haeree Lee

Columbia

Karen Lee

UChicago

Sven Leyffer

Sven Leyffer

Senior Computational Mathematician Argonne National Laboratory

Research Interests: Computation, Mathematics

leyffer@mcs.anl.gov 
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Moyin Li

Student at UIC

Research Interests: Urban planning

mli60@uic.edu 
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John List

John List

Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics University of Chicago

Jose Lobo

Arizona State University

Chris Lowrie

Michigan State University

Research Interests: Computation, Education, Environment, Mathematics

lowriech@msu.edu 

Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig

McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and Chicago Harris; Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab University of Chicago

Research Interests: Public Policy, Economics, Health, Crime, Education

Jludwig@uchicago.edu 
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Raed Mansour

Raed Mansour

Director of Innovation at Chicago Department of Public Health

Research Interests: City government, Data Analytics, Environment, Health

Raed.Mansour@cityofchicago.org 
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Anna-Maria Marshall

Anna-Maria Marshall

Associate Professor of Sociology and Law University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nathan Mason

Walter Massey

School of the Art Inst. of Chicago

Kathleen McCarthy

Museum of Science and Industry

Ruby Mendenhall

Ruby Mendenhall

Associate Professor, African American Studies of Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Sociology

rubymen@illinois.edu 
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Lindsay Miles

Lindsay Miles

Graduate Student at Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Genetics

milesls@mymail.vcu.edu
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Iman Mirrezaei

Dimple Modgil

Staff Scientist at University of Chicago

Research Interests: Computation, Data Analytics, Education, Environment, Health, Non-profit, Software Development

dimple@uchicago.edu
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Peter Muhlberger

Research Fellow, Public Policy Center University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Research Interests: Public Policy

pmuhl1848@gmail.com

Todd Munson

Computational Scientist Argonne National Laboratory

John Murphey

UChicago

Jenny Nagaoka

Deputy Director, Consortium of Chicago School Research University of Chicago

Research Interests: Education, Public Policy

jkn@uchicago.edu 
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Svetlozar Nestorov

UChicago CI

Colm O'Muircheartaigh

UChicago

Daniel O'Neill

Chicago Community Trust

Asrai Ord

Asrai Ord

Software Eng. student with an MA in Urban Planning at Simon Fraser University

Research Interests: Software development, Urban planning

spring.asrai@gmail.com 
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Hunter Owens

UChicago

Jonathan Ozik

Jonathan Ozik

Computational Social Scientist; Fellow, Computation Institute Argonne National Laboratory

Research Interests: Computation, Agent Based Modeling

jozik@uchicago.edu 
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Douglas Pancoast

Douglas Pancoast

Director, Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration; Associate Professor, Architecture School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Research Interests: Architecture, Urban Infrastructure

dpancoast@saic.edu 
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Alessandro Pannella

UIC

Jeffrey Parker

UChicago

Susan Parker

Susan Parker

Data Scientist at University of Chicago

Research Interests: Crime, Data Analytics, Economics

susan.teresa.parker@gmail.com 

Miguel Perez

SAIC

Jessica Polos

Jessica Polos

PhD Student, Sociology and Demography University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests: Sociology


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Stephen Raudenbush

Stephen Raudenbush

Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, the College, and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies; Chair, Committee on Education University of Chicago

Research Interests: Sociology, Public Policy, Education

sraudenb@uchicago.edu 
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Brigitte Raumann

UChicago

Baixin Ren

Urban Designer at HOK

Research Interests: Architecture, Computation, Data Analytics, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Health, Industry, Urban Planning

baixin.ren@gmail.com
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Justin Richter

Purdue

Bo Rodda

Bob Rosner

Bob Rosner

William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, the College, and the Computation Institute University of Chicago

Research Interests: Computation, Energy

rrosner@ci.uchicago.edu 
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Rob Sampson

Rob Sampson

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences; Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative Harvard University

Golnaz Sarram

Graduate Assistant at University of Memphis

Research Interests: Architecture, Computation, Data Analytics, Environment, Software Development, Urban Planning, Web Development

gsarram@memphis.edu 

Tom Schenk

Tom Schenk

Chief Data Officer City of Chicago

Aaron Schroeder

VT

Catherine Schwable

Matt Shapiro

Matt Shapiro

Associate Professor of Political Science Illinois Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Public Policy, Environment, Energy

mshapir2@iit.edu 
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Alexander Shermansong

Alexander Shermansong

Chief Executive Officer Civic Consulting USA

Research Interests: Industry, City Government

alex@shermansong.com 
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Stephanie Shipp

VT

Brent Shraiberg

Clean Energy Trust

Shade Shutters

Arizona State University

Mario Small

Mario Small

Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology Harvard University

Daniel Sui

Daniel Sui

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University

Research Interests: Computation, Data analytics, Environment, Health, Sociology, Urban planning

sui.10@osu.edu 
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Alex Sun

Alex Sun

Research Scientist at University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests: Computation, Data Analytics, Energy, Environment, Mathematics, Software Development, Urban Planning, Web Development

alex.sun@beg.utexas.edu
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Emily Talen

Nastaran Tebyanian

Penn State

Nebiyou Tilahun

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Policy University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests: Urban Planning, Public Policy

ntilahun@uic.edu 
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Katja Toivola

Aalto University

Research Interests: Architecture, Environment, Urban Planning

katja.toivola@aalto.fi

John Tolva

John Tolva

President PositivEnergy Practice

Research Interests: Computation, Architecture, Energy, Urban Planning

jntolva@gmail.com 
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Patrick van Kessel

NORC

Brian Verrelli

Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University

Claudia Vicentelo

Aseem Vikas

Graduate Student at Northeastern University

Research Interests: Architecture, Urban Planning

aseemvdeodhar@gmail.com

Douglas Voigt

Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill

Lu Wang

Student at University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Research Interests: Information technology

LU.A.WANG@GMAIL.COM
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Shaowen Wang

Shaowen Wang

Professor and Centennial Scholar; Associate Director for Cyber GIS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Heidi Werner

Stefan Wild

Assistant Computational Mathematician Argonne National Laboratory

Ouri Wolfson

UIC

Jasmine Wright

Student at The New School

Research Interests: Architecture

wrigj178@newschool.edu 

Tzu-Chi Yen

Sensoro Technology Co., Ltd.

Luis Zárate

Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Research Interests: Computation, Crime, Data Analytics, Education, Energy, Environment, Health, Industry, Urban Planning

zarate@pucminas.br
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Jessie Zarazaga

Jessie Zarazaga

Program Director, MA Sustainability & Development, Lyle School of Engineering at SMU

Research Interests: Architecture, Data Analytics, Education, Environment, Urban Planning

jzarazaga@smu.edu
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Liming Zhang

MS Student at Carnegie Mellon University

Bo Zou

UIC