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
Areeha Ilyas
Class of 2025
Email: ilyasare@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Mathematics
Software: R
Research Interests: Game Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics
Avaash Bhattarai
Class of 2026
Email: bhattara@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Mathematics
Software: Python, R
Research Interests: Algorithms, Complexity Theory, Number Theory, Graph Theory and Cryptography
Alex Stein
Class of 2025
Email: steinale@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics
Software: R, Minitab
Research Interests: Statistical and financial modeling, macroeconomic policies, Impacts of Microfinance
Cam Haaland
Class of 2025
Email: haalandc@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics & Statistics
Software: Stata, R
Research Interests: Econometric Analysis, Economic & Statistical Modeling, Health Economics
Duy Nguyen
Class of 2026
Email: nguyendu@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Biological Chemistry & Statistics
Software: R
Research Interests: Cancer Pathogenesis, Biomarkers & Treatment
Paata Kaloiani
Class of 2025
Email: kaloiani@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Political Science, Economics
Software: Stata, R
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Polling Data Analysis, Developmental Economics
Paden Houck
Class of 2027
Email: houckpad@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science
Software: ArcGIS
Research Interests: River flooding and impacts on local infrastructure
Oliver Northing
Class of 2025
Email: northing@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Statistics, and Policy Studies
Software: Stata
Research Interests: Climate Change/Environmental Economics, Social Capital, and Higher Education
Sauryanshu Khanal
Class of 2025
Email: khanalsa@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science and Economics
Software: Stata, R, Python
Research Interests: Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Software Engineering
Utsah Kalra
Class of 2025
Email: kalrauts@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics and Maths with Statistics Concentration
Software: STATA, little bit of R and Python
Research Interests: Causal Inference for Economics-related research
Simon Hodson
Class of 2025
email: hodsonsi@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Math, Economics, Statistics
Software: Stata, R, Python, Excel
Research Interests: Econometrics, Monetary Policy, Machine Learning in Economics
Trung Le
Class of 2025
Email: letrung@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics with concentration in Statistics
Software: Python, Stata, R, SQL, Tableau
Research Interests: Machine Learning/Deep Learning in Time Series Classification, LLMs, and Recommendation System
Alex Welch
Class of 2025
Email: welchale@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics and Statistics
Software: R, Stata, Python, Tableau, Minitab
Research Interests: Macroeconomic Policy, Statistical and Economic Modeling
Cole Beattie
Class of 2025
Email: beattiec@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics and Statistics
Software: R, Stata, Excel
Research Interests: Markets
Sean Murphy
Class of 2026
Email: murphyse@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Political Science, Statistics
Software: R, Stata
Research Interests: Economic and Statistical analysis, forecasting, and data science
Saki Ehara
Class of 2026
Email: eharasak@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Psychology, Statistics
Software: R, SPSS, PowerBI
Research Interests: Human Decision-making, Applied Game Theory
Minh Nguyen
Class of 2025
Email: nguyenmi@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Economics, Statistics
Software: Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL, C#, C/C++, HTML/CSS, R, Stata, Haskell
Research Interests: Web Development, Mobile Development, Quantitative Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Engineering, UI/UX Design, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
Aidan Choate
Class of 2025
Email: choateai@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Statistics
Software: R, STATA, SPSS
Research Interests: Economic and Statistical Modeling, Polling Analysis and Data Science