NSDC Leadership Team

Meet the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) leadership team!

NSDC HQ Team

The NSDC HQ Team spearheads the program’s events, opportunities, and initiatives.

Florence Hudson

Executive Director, Co-Principal Investigator, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Columbia University

Emily Rothenberg

NSDC Program 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.

Elie Alhajjar

Machine Learning Researcher, Army Cyber Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy; Senior Information Scientist, RAND Corporation

Ajay Anand

Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Goergen Data Science Institute, University of Rochester

Catherine Cramer

Founder and Principal, Woods Hole Institute; Associate Director, EarthCube; Director, Outreach and Engagement, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Yusuf Danisman

Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

Sarah Dunton

Director, Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance

Elena Filatova

Associate Professor, Computer Systems, New York City College of Technology

Forough Ghahramani

Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Programs, Edge

Ahmed Gomaa

Professor Operations & Analytics, University of Scranton

Meghana Joshi

Applied Scientist II, Microsoft

Leslie LaBarte

District Consultant, Seneca Library District

Cathie LeBlanc

Professor, Plymouth State University

Hoang Luong

Associate, Morgan Stanley

Thilanka Munasinghe

Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kaylea Nelson

Team Lead of Computational Research Support Analyst, Yale University

Jennifer Oxenford

Chief Membership Officer and Director, NYC Dark Fiber Program, NYSERNet

Xingye Qiao

Professor, Binghamton University

Aunshul Rege

Associate Professor and Director, CARE Lab, Temple University

Benjamin Sango

Associate Consultant, Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group

Oshani Seneviratne

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Associate Director, Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Abhishek Sinha

AI Architect, Cybersecurity Gen AI Stealth Startup

Haleigh Stewart

Tech Consultant, Qvest US

Federico d'Oleire Uquillas

Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University; Executive Director, Founder, NeurON

Andre de Waal

Data Science and Curriculum Developer, IBM

Tony Ye

Ph.D. Analyst, L.E.K. Consulting

Emre Yetgin

Director of Center for Business Analytics, and Associate 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.

Stay Connected with Us

Email us at nsdc@nebigdatahub.org with any inquiries or questions.

Some ways to stay connected with the NSDC community:

• Join our Slack channel
• Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn
• Subscribe to the Northeast Hub YouTube channel
• Sign up for our NSDC mailing list
• Check out the REAL Volunteer Program for more collaboration opportunities.