Faculty & Staff
Julia Bauder
Director of DASIL
Social Studies and Data Services Librarian, Professor
email: bauderj@grinnell.edu; phone: x4431
Julia has worked with DASIL since its founding in 2010. She has a strong professional interest in data literacy and is the editor of the 2021 book Data Literacy in Academic Libraries: Teaching Critical Thinking with Numbers. As a librarian, her consulting areas include economics, global development studies, peace & conflict studies, political science, policy studies, and sociology.
Jiahao Deng
Data Scientist of DASIL
email: dengjiahao@grinnell.edu; phone: x4050
Jiahao Deng has been a member of DASIL since 2023. With a keen interest in data visualization and machine learning, he possesses expertise in human-computer interaction, robotics, and computer vision.
Student Employees
Paden Houck
Class of 2027
Email: houckpad@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Studio Art
Software: ArcGIS
Research Interests: GIS & Spatial Analysis
Sarah Deschamps
Class of 2027
Email: deschamp@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Economics, and Statistics
Software: R, Python, Stata
Research Interests: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor, Health, Education
Anshul Satav
Class of 2027
Email: satavans@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Economics, and Statistics
Software: R, Python, Stata, SQL, Excel
Research Interests: Time-series classification, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Quantitative finance, and Data Science
Arsal Shaikh
Class of 2027 – Abroad Spring 2026
Email: shaikhar@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Anthropology, Statistics
Software: R, SQL, Python
Research Interests: Time Series Clustering, Driver-Impariment Detection, Data Science, and Computational Anthropology
Aritra Mookherjee
Class of 2027 – Abroad Spring 2026
Email: mookherj@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Political Science, Statistics
Software: R, Stata
Research Interests: political violenece, inter state relations, financial marketss
Leonardo “Leo” Alves Nunes
Class of 2027
Email: nunesleo@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Economics, Statistics
Software: R, Python, Stata
Research Interests: Time Series, Macroeconomics, Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning
Nicole Moreno Gonzalez
Class of 2027
Email: morenoni@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Statistics
Software: R, Stata, Python
Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, UX, Accessible Design, Information systems
Aaryan Lodaya
Class of 2027
Email: lodayaaa@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, History, Global Development Studies and Statistics
Software: R, Stata
Research Interests: Financial Markets, Econometrics, Qualitative Data Analysis
Rihaan Bhansali
Class of 2027
Email: bhansali@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Statistics
Software: R, Stata
Research Interests: Financial economics and markets, Stocks/trading, Sports analytics, world/county level data analysis
Slok Rajbhandari
Class of 2027
Email: rajbhand2@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science & Economics
Software: Stata, Python
Research Interests:Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing, AI in Forecasting and Modeling, FinTech
Jafar Jarrar
Class of 2027
Email: jarrarja@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science and Statisitcs
Software: R, Python
Research Interests:
Mohammad Mufrad Chowdhury
Class of 2027
Email: chowdhury@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics and Concentration in Statistics and Global Developments Studies
Software: R, Stata
Research Interests: Ecometrics, Development Economics, Political Ecology, Statistical Modeling
Charlotte Banta
Class of 2027
Email: bantacha@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics and Physics
Software: R, Stata, Python
Research Interests: Crime Ecometrics, Ecometrics, Semiconductors and Nanotechnology
Ayan Arora
Class of 2028
Email: aroraaya@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Computer Science and Statistics
Software: R, Stata, Python
Research Interests: Ecometrics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory