Stoyan
Stoyan studied at Columbia University, where he was President’s Fellow for two consecutive years, graduating with an MA in Political Science with a focus on mathematical modeling. His research skills made him a top recruit for the Tokugawa Memorial Foundation, in Tokyo, Japan, where he worked on several projects related to American-Japanese relations.
Shaan
Shaan is an advanced PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University. She previously completed a BA in Psychology at San Diego State University.
Talia
Talia holds a BA in Visual Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Quantitative Economics from UCLA. She will next pursue a PhD in Cultural Economics.
Gavin R.
Gavin holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard College. After working as a software engineer in computational geometry at Markforged in Boston, he moved to Austria to work as a research assistant in quantitative social science at the Institute for Science and Technology Austria and Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
Bowen
Bowen graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with a joint degree in computer science and statistics. Currently, he works as a researcher in AI for healthcare. He will start a PhD at Stanford in 2024.
Haleigh
Haleigh is a PhD Candidate in Biomedical Sciences at NYU Medical School. She previously earned her BS in General Science from Pennsylvania State University and her MPH in Environmental Health Science at Columbia University.
Chris R.
Chris is a PhD candidate at MIT’s Computational and Systems Biology Program. He previously earned his bachelor’s degree in cyber engineering with a minor in mathematics from Louisiana Tech University with a 3.96 GPA.
Kirsten M.
Kirsten is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Harvard University, where she studies Psychology with a minor in Data Science. Previously, she earned her BA in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Swarthmore College.
Kaitlyn L.
Kaitlyn played D1 softball at Stanford, where she majored in Computer Science (3.8/4.0 GPA). Presently, she is an MD-PhD student at Harvard working on her PhD in Bioinformatics.
Brian Do.
Brian is a PhD student at Columbia University studying Chemical Engineering. Previously, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Statistics, and Chemistry, with a minor in Accounting at the University of California San Diego.
Sara F.
Sara is a PhD student in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, where she researches theoretical questions at the intersection of computer science and economics. She previously earned her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Caltech.
Amnon
Amnon is a PhD in Computational Robotics and Reinforcement Learning at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant by his university for teaching Artificial Intelligence and Machine Perception.
Xavier
Xavier graduated from Yale College in 2019 with a BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. During the summers, he researched Type II Diabetes at Yale Medical School and HIV at Harvard Medical School. Currently, he is pursuing a Neuroscience PhD at Columbia University.
Isaiah B.
A lifelong Midwesterner, Isaiah attended Iowa State University, graduating summa cum laude with honors (Phi Beta Kappa). After graduating, Isaiah committed a year of service as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently a first-year Master in Public Policy Candidate at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Seth S.
Seth earned his BA from the University of Michigan, where his senior thesis on Brazilian welfare politics won the Sahlins Award for best thesis in the Social Sciences. After working as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, he began his PhD in Political Science at Harvard University.
Cyrus A.
Cyrus is currently a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School in the MD-PhD program. Previously, he graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Erika N.
Erika earned a BS in Biology, specializing in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics, at Stony Brook University; she graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa She is currently pursuing an MD/PhD in Cancer Immunology through the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Izzy
Izzy graduated from Princeton with a BS in Chemical & Biological Engineering and minors in Statistics & Machine Learning and Creative Writing (poetry). She is now a PhD student in Biostatistics at Harvard University.
Tarun
Tarun studied Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Bioengineering at MIT, where he completed both his BS and MEng in four years. He is now pursuing an MD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Program.
Danielle
Danielle is a PhD student in Statistics at Colorado State University. She graduated summa cum laude from TCNJ with a BS in Mathematics. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Mu Epsilon National Honor Societies.
Rahul
Rahul is an MD/PhD student at Harvard-MIT. He earned his BSE at UPenn in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Biology, where he also founded Access Engineering to offer free engineering courses to underserved high schoolers.
Corinne
Corinne earned her BS in Chemical Engineering and her MS in Systems Engineering from MIT. She received several fellowships to do research abroad, and her work was supported by USAID. Currently, she is an MD student at Tufts.
Arjun
Arjun is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Previously, he earned his MS and BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Math Economics from UCLA.
Eduardo
Eduardo earned his BS in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from MIT (Phi Beta Kappa, 4.9/5.0 GPA). He is currently pursuing his MD/PhD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Program.
Ian
Ian earned his BA in Economics from Bucknell. He then worked as a teacher and administrator in charter schools in New Orleans. He is currently pursuing his MBA at Columbia University as a Columbia Fellows Scholar.
Matthew
Matt attended UT Dallas on a full-ride McDermott Scholarship, where he earned his BS in Mathematics (summa cum laude). He went on to earn his Master's in Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University.
Kaylee
Kaylee is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at MIT. Previously, she earned a BSE in Chemical Engineering at the University of Iowa, and spent a summer in Huntsville, Alabama working at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Emily Me.
Emily is a fifth year doctoral candidate in clinical science and member of the Biopsychosocial Effects of Stigma (BEST) Lab at Harvard. Previously, Emily graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College, where she majored in Psychology and was awarded the Ross-Lieberman Prize.
Pooja S.
Pooja earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and her MS in Engineering Management from UW-Madison. Most recently, she ran a corporate-backed accelerator for insurance-focused startups.
Justin
Justin earned his BA in Math with a minor in Computer Science at Boston College. After spending a few years working as a web developer, he moved to New York, where he is now an MBA candidate at NYU.
Arvind
Arvind holds a BS in Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and an MA in Engineering in EECS from MIT. He has worked at Amazon, D.E. Shaw Research, and most recently at BenevolentAI.
Dan
Dan is an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School. He earned his BA in Cognitive Science at Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa), where his thesis earned the Angier award.
Sara
Sara graduated from MIT with a degree in Math with Computer Science. After working as a program manager at Microsoft, she is now pursuing her MBA at Harvard Business School.
Emily Ei.
Emily graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Mathematics and a minor in Economics from Dartmouth. After working at the Federal Reserve Bank for two years, she is now a PhD student in Economics at UC Berkeley.
Jeff
Jeff is an MS candidate in Computer Science at NYU, concentrating on Machine Learning. He graduated from Columbia with a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Jackie
Jackie is an MD student at NYU School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Neuroscience and English and was the managing editor of her college newspaper at the University of Miami (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Karan
Karan is an MBA student at the Columbia Business School. Prior to Business School, Karan spent four years at a FinTech startup in NYC. He graduated from Emory University with a BA in Economics and Political Science.
Pete
Pete studied Civil Engineering and Economics at MIT, and then spent five years working at a FinTech startup as a lead manager for data modeling. He is now completing his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Michael
Michael graduated summa cum laude and with College Honors from Louisiana State University with a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Economics. As a Phi Kappa Phi Fellow, Michael received an MPhil in Health, Medicine, and Society from the University of Cambridge. He's currently pursuing his MD at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Josef
Josef earned a BA/MA in Economics from Boston University (with honors, magna cum laude). After graduation, he worked with the Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) at Boston University. Currently, he is an analyst at IHS Markit.
Max
After graduating Valedictorian of his high school class, Max earned his BA in Philosophy at Columbia. He is currently an MD/PhD candidate at Columbia, conducting his doctoral research in systems neuroscience.
David
David holds a BA in Mathematics (University of Chicago) and an MS in Computer Science (Harvard). He is currently a practicing statistician, mathematician, and teacher at an IB school.
Ben
Ben is a PhD student in Economics at UC Berkeley. Prior to grad school, he earned a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and worked for two years as a predoctoral fellow in the Harvard Economics department.
Yehonatan
Yehonatan earned his PhD in Math at UCLA, and his BA in Math with a minor in Creative Writing at UC Berkeley. He is now a postdoc researcher in Systems and Computational Biology in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Joseph
Joe is a PhD candidate in the Biological Sciences in Public Health at Harvard. He earned his BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and his MS in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State.
Santiago
Santiago graduated from UT Austin with dual honors degrees in the Humanities and Biochemistry. After spending a summer at NIH, he went on to complete an MPhil in Chemistry at Cambridge, and he is now an MD/PhD candidate at UPenn.
Abubakar
Abubakar graduated from MIT with a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received the prestigious Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, which is funding his research as a PhD student at Stanford.
Tim
Tim recently earned a Master's in Economic Policy from the University College London. He has worked in international affairs management consulting, as a lead research analyst, and as an assistant economist.
Emily Mo.
Emily received a BA in French and Economics from Princeton. After college, she worked in consulting and economic research, and earned her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard, where she taught Economics and Machine Learning.