Steering Committee

Alyssa Goodman is the  Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, Co-Director for Science, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Goodman's research and teaching...

Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7^th to the 17^th century. He is the author of "This...

Dr. Dominici received her B.S. in Statistics from University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy and her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Padua in Italy. She did her postdoctoral training with Scott L. Zeger and Jonathan M. Samet at the Bloomberg School...

Daniel Gilbert is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution...

 

Isaac (Zak) Kohane is the inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He served as co-author of the Institute of Medicine Report on Precision...

Jason Ur is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis in 2014-2020.  He studies the origins and development of cities and empires in the Middle East and their landscape impacts, using...

Elizabeth Jackson is the Executive Director of IQSS.  Elizabeth joined IQSS in July 2022 from both Greater Portland Health in Maine, and the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Elizabeth has dedicated...

Luke Miratrix is an assistant professor in the Harvard School of Education and affiliate faculty in the Harvard Department of Statistics. His primary research focus is on causal inference methods. In particular, much of his work is on developing...

Hanspeter Pfister is An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research in visual computing lies at the intersection of...

Tyler J. VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and director of the Human Flourishing Program and co-director...