Meet the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) leadership team!
NSDC HQ Team
The NSDC HQ Team spearheads the program’s events, opportunities, and initiatives.
FlorenceHudson
Executive Director, Co-Principal Investigator, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Columbia University
EmilyRothenberg
NSDC Program Coordinator, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Columbia University
DashanshPrajapati
NSDC Student Coordinator, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Columbia University
RahulrajSingh
NSDC Student Coordinator, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Columbia University
Founding Committee
The NSDC Founding Committee has been instrumental in building this program. Learn more about the Founding Committee’s Teams, including the Content & Pedagogy, Peer Instructors, and Outreach Teams, listed below.
ElieAlhajjar
Research Scientist, Army Cyber Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy
AjayAnand
Deputy Director, Goergen Data Science Institute, University of Rochester
CatherineCramer
Director, Woods Hole Institute
YusufDanisman
Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Assistant Professor, Computer Systems, New York City College of Technology
ForoughGhahramani
Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Programs, Edge
AhmedGomaa
Director of Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, University of Scranton
MeghanaJoshi
Project Coordinator, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
LeslieLaBarte
Seneca District Consultant, Seneca Library District
CathieLeBlanc
General Education Coordinator and Professor of Digital Media, Plymouth State University
HoangLuong
Associate, Morgan Stanley
ThilankaMunasinghe
Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
KayleaNelson
Senior Computational Research Support Analyst, Yale University
JenniferOxenford
Director, Member Services and NYC Dark Fiber Program, NYSERNet
XingyeQiao
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Chair of the Data Science Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence, Binghamton University
AunshulRege
Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University
BenjaminSango
Associate, Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group
OshaniSeneviratne
Director, Health Data Research, Institute for Data Exploration and Applications, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
AbhishekSinha
Product Data Science, Eightfold.ai
HaleighStewart
Consulting Analyst, Qvest US
Federicod'Oleire Uquillas
Ph.D. Student, Princeton University; National Science Foundation GRF; Ford Foundation National Academies of Sciences Predoctoral Fellow
Andrede Waal
Data and AI Expert Labs Learning, Academic Technology Lead IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software
TonyYe
Ph.D. Analyst, L.E.K. Consulting
EmreYetgin
Director of Center for Business Analytics and Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Rider University
NSDC Teams led by the NSDC Founding Committee
Content & Pedagogy
Led by Andre de Waal, Frederico d’Oleire Uquillas, and Yusuf Danisman, our Content & Pedagogy team builds a curriculum leveraging academia and industry generated pedagogy and materials to teach data science fundamentals, as well as translational data science with pertinent use cases.
Peer Instructors
The Peer Instructors team consists of graduate, undergraduate, and post-doc students who will teach data science remotely to students who do not have access to data science programs, and play a significant role in shaping the student experience.
Outreach
The Outreach team, led by Forough Ghahramani and Jennifer Oxenford, identifies and enables collaborators interested in engaging the NSDC to increase data science education and knowledge. This includes higher ed institutions, students interested in engaging with the NSDC, and community and government institutions that employ data science, providing real-world examples to teach practical, translational data science.