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
Vinicius Ono Sant’Anna
Class of 2024
email: onosanta@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Economics, and Statistics
Software: Python, R, STATA, Minitab, Tableau
Research Interests: Financial markets, monetary policy, Optimization, NLP
Kripa Bansal
Class of 2024
Email: bansalkr@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics, Statistics
Software: R, Stata
Research Interests: Corporate finance, developmental economics, revenue modelling
Jefferson Kolmer
Class of 2024
Email: kolmerje@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics and Policy Studies
Software: STATA, R, SQL, PowerBI
Research Interests: Business Analytics, Energy and Environmental Policy, and Economic/Econometric Analysis
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
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
Goeun Han
Class of 2024
Email: hangoeun@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Mathematics (major), Statistics (minor)
Software: R, Minitab
Research Interests: data science, public policy management, urban analytics
David Eason
Class of 2024
Email: easondav@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics & Statistics
Software: R, Stata, Python, C, Excel, Power BI, Bloomberg Terminal, Capital IQ, AWS
Research Interests: Economic, financial, & statistical modeling/analysis; financial markets; monetary policy.
Maximilian Worth
Class of 2024
Email: easondav@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics & Mathematics
Software: Stata, R
Research Interests: Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics
Hong Doan
Class of 2024
Email: doanhong@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Biochemistry
Software: Python, R, MATLAB
Research Interests: Graph Data Science; Natural Language Processing; Data Analysis for Biomedical Engineering
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
Nandika Jhunjhunwala
Class of 2024
Email: jhunjhun@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration:Computer Science, Economics
Software: Stata, R, Python
Research Interests:
Caitlin Abreu
Class of 2024
Email: abreucai@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Computer Science, Statistics
Software: R, SQL
Research Interests: Network science, social network analysis and modeling
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
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
Malina Cantemir
Class of 2024
Email: cantemir@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Biology and Statistics
Software: R, Minitab, Tableau, SQL
Research Interests: Data visualisation, biostatistics, microbiology
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
Mentors Who Are Currently Studying Off-Campus:
Simon Hodson
Class of 2024
email: hodsonsi@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration: Economics and Mathematics
Software: R, Python, Stata
Research Interests: Politics, Macroeconomic Policy, Statistical and Economic Modelling, Financial Analysis
Sauryanshu Khanal
Class of 2025
Email: khanalsa@grinnell.edu
Major(s) and Concentration:Computer Science, Economics
Software: Stata, R, Python
Research Interests: Neural networks, Natural Language Processing, Economic modelling