Team

Lab Director

          Mauricio Santillana, Ph.D.

• ​Professor of Physics,  Physics Department, College of Sciences, Northeastern University
• Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
• Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy), Khoury College, Northeastern University
• Professor of Health Sciences (by courtesy), Bouve College, Northeastern University

Contact

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Office location​
177 Huntington Ave
Room 228
Boston, MA 02115
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Team Members

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Faculty 

​Austin Meyer
​M.D. Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 
Currently: Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Team member: 2021 - present​​

​Shihao Yang
Ph.D. Statistics, Harvard University
Currently: Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Team member: 2023 - present​

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Binod Pant
Postdoctoral Researcher at Northeastern University
​Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
​University of Maryland
​Team member: 2024 - present
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George Dewey
Postdoctoral Researcher at Northeastern University
Ph.D. in Epidemiology
University of California Los Angeles
​Team member: 2024 - present

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​Matthew Levine
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard 
Ph.D. in Computing + Mathematical Sciences.
​California Institute of Technology.
Team member: 2023 - present​

Anjalika Nande
Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. in Physics.
Harvard University
Team member: 2021 - present

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PhD Students

Raul Garrido
Ph.D. Student in Physics
​Northeastern University
Team member: 2023 - present​

Xiyu Yang
Ph.D. Student in Network Science
Northeastern University
​M.S. in Data Science, Harvard
​Team member: 2023 - present​​

Daniel González Quezada
Ph.D. Student in Network Science
Northeastern University
​​Team member: 2024 - present

Nick Link
​Ph.D. Student in Biostatistics,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Team member: 2019 - present​​

Fred Lu
PhD Student in Computer Science
University of Maryland
Team Member: 2016 - present​
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Franc O
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Northeastern University
Team member: 2023 - present

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Staff

Gemma Llano
MIGHTE Lab Operations Manager
​Northeastern University
​Team member: 2023 - present​​​
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Co-op Students 

Imogen Slavin
Co-op Student at Northeastern University
Data Science and Public Health
Northeastern University
​​Team member: 2025 - present​

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

Yash Bhora
Undergraduate student, Physics
Northeastern University
Team member: 2023 - present

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Affiliate Members

Lucas Stolerman
PhD Mathematics,
National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Brazil
Team member: 2020 - present
Now: Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

Derek MacFadden
Medical Doctor
Harvard School of Public Health.
Team member: 2017- present
Now: Assistant Professor at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

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Alumni
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César Leonardo Clemente, 
Data Manager
M.S. Applied Math and Physics,
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Team member: 2017 - 2025

Leonardo Cázares, Undergraduate Student, Physics
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Team member: 2022 - 2025

Ang Barrett, Co-op Student at Northeastern University​
Mathematics and Physics Student
Northeastern University
Team member: 2024 - 2025​

Nicole Kogan, Ph.D. ​in Population Health Sciences. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Team member: 2020 - 2024
Now: Rotational Associate at D. E. Shaw Group

Tamanna Urmi, Ph.D. Student in Network Science
​Northeastern University
​Team member: 2022 - 2024

Niti Mishra, Data Scientist and Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedicine
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) 
Team member: 2024

Labdhi Gandhi, Co-op Student at Northeastern University
Master in Data Science
Harvard University
​​Team member: 2024

Edward Berman, BS Mathematics, BS Applied Physics
Northeastern University
​Team member: 2024

Iris Lang, Undergraduate Student, Applied Math. ​Harvard University
Team member: 2022 - 2024

Skyler Wu, M.S., Harvard University, Applied Mathematics at Harvard University
Team member: 2020 - 2024
Now: Ph.D. Student in Statistics at Stanford University
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Jinho Park
Undergraduate Student, Mathematics
​Harvard University
Team member: 2023 - 2024

Taylor Chin, PhD Student in Population Health Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 
Team member: 2018 - 2023

Tigist Menkir, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Team member: 2019 - 2023

Canelle Poirier, PhD Applied Statistics,
Université de Rennes, France
​Team member: 2019 - 2022
Now: Data Analyst at Fédération Française d'Athlétisme

Dianbo Liu, PhD Mathematical Modelling, 
University of Dundee, UK
​Team member: 2019 - 2022
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at MILA Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute​ 

Xincheng Tan, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences
Team member: 2021 - 2022
Now: Data Engineer at Google (YouTube)
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Justin Kaashoek, Undergraduate student,
Harvard College
Team member: 2020 - 2022
​Now: PhD student, MIT

Lin Zhu, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Student, Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences
​Team member: 2020 - 2022
Now: Software Engineer, Wish

Paola Calvachi, MD MSc,
MBI-Candidate, Harvard Medical School
Team member: 2020 - 2022
Now: Graduate Student, Stanford University

​Shae Gantt M.S in Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Team member: 2021-2022
Now: PhD Student at the University of Alabama
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Kristin Baltrusaitis, Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health
Team member: 2015 - 2022
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Maia Majumder, Ph.D. Engineering Systems, Harvard University’s Health Policy Data Science lab. Team member: 2014 – 2021
Now: Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital

Prof. Won-Yong Shin, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dankook University, Korea.
Team member: 2018 - 2021
Now: Professor, CSE at Yonsei University

Vivek Sharma, PhD
Researcher, MIT Media Lab; 
Team member: 2019 - 2020
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Wei Luo, PhD in Geographic Information Sciences,  Postdoctoral Fellow at HMS
Team member: 2019-2020
Now: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
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Bhaven Patel, Master in Computational Science & Engineering, Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences
Team member: 2019 - 2020
Now: Analyst, Personal Capital

Mathieu Molina, M.S. Engineering and Data Science, Mines ParisTech; Intern, Boston Childrens Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Team member: 2019 - 2020
Now: Amazon Inc

​Backtosch Mustafa, Medical Student, University of Hamburg; 
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Medical School
Team member: 2019 - 2020

Yuval Barak-Corren M.D Technion Rappaport Faculty of Medicine.
Team member 2018-2020
Now: Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital

​Emily Aiken, B.S. Computer Science, 
Harvard University
Team member: 2018 - 2019
Now: PhD student, University of California, Berkeley

Mohammad W. Hattab, Ph.D. Biostatistics, Wyss Institute, Harvard University.
Team member: 2018 - 2019
Now: Researcher at Harvard Medical School
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Sarah McGough, PhD,  Candidate Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health       
Team member: 2016 - 2019
Now: Data Scientist at Genentech

Gal Koplewitz, B.S. Computer Science, Harvard University
Team member: 2018 - 2019
Now: Data Scientist, Quantum Black; and Independent Scientific Writer, (The Economist, New Yorker, etc)

​Karla Mejía, M.S. in Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Team member: 2018 - 2019
Now: Associate Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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David Castiñeira, PhD. Chemical Engineering, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Team member: 2016 - 2017
Now: Principal Advisor for Emerging Technologies, Hess Corporation
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Gaston Fiore, M.S. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Team member: 2016 - 2017
Now: Entrepreneur

​Kaycie Schlosser, Medical Doctor, Chief Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital
Team member: 2016 - 2017
Now: Pediatric Intensivist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Gal Wachtel, B.S. Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Team member: 2017
Now: Data Scientist, Palantir

Sam Tideman, M.S. Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Team member: 2017
Now: Data Scientist, Northshore University Healthsystem

Nick Generous, M.S. Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Team member: 2017
Now: Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Suqin Hou, M.S. Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Team member: 2016
Now: Data Scientist, KAYAK

Andre Nguyen,  B.S. Applied Math, Harvard University
Team member: 2014 - 2016
Now: Director of Machine Learning, JURA Bio, Inc.