News: Students

Annie Xie grew up in Guilford, CT. She’s in her third year at UChicago as a PhD student in Statistics, where she has been working to develop statistical methods for analyzing and identifying patterns in genetics data.

Geophysical Sciences grad student Freya Chen shares how she spent her summer tapping glaciers to test seismological models.

Photo: Jérémie Bonneau (left) and Oscar Sepulveda perform an active seismic source experiment. Image courtesy of Yulia Antropova.

Computer scientist Marshini Chetty and CS PhD student Jake Chanenson comment on the disparities in cyber data protection for schools compared to banks and other for-profit businesses in an article for The 74.

The three-week-long Data Science Institute for High School Teachers brought eight teachers together with staff members from Argonne. They met at Hyde Park Academy High School in Chicago, where they learned about computer science, experimented hands-on with coding tools, and practiced teaching data science to youth.

Photo by Argonne National Laboratory

A Chicago Tribune article on a new quantum education program at Fermilab mentions UChicago as a partner in the Chicago Quantum Exchange.

Photo by Ryan Postel, Fermilab

"As a physicist working across the street from the Manhattan Project’s atomic breakthrough site, I grapple with Oppenheimer’s legacy and the questions raised by Christopher Nolan’s film every day," writes physics PhD candidate George Iskander in an essay for British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine.

“When you have a lot of EVs charging at the same time, they can create a peak demand on the power station. This introduces increased charges, which we’re trying to avoid,” says Salman Yousaf, a graduate student in applied data science who is working on the project with three other students.

Image by Argonne National Laboratory

Data Science for Everyone Director Zarek Drozda mentions that California is one of 17 states now offering data science to high school students in some form, and that Oregon and Ohio offer it as an alternative to Algebra II.

Sandra Tilmon is a graduate of the MS in Applied Data Science part-time program in the Physical Sciences Division.

Ben Kusswurm is a student in the MS in Applied Data Science's online program.

EJ Kang is a MS in Applied Data Science student in the Physical Sciences Division.

The Physical Sciences Division has selected four graduate students to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Kate Timmerman, CEO of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, comments on Quick Quantum: for High Schoolers, an educational video series.

Six graduate students have been awarded the Physical Sciences Teaching Prizes for 2022-23: Kapil Chandran (Mathematics), Katelyn Feuling (Chemistry), Harry Fosbinder-Elkins (Physics), Ananth Kamath (Chemistry), Claire Lessler (Physics), and Jonathan Liu (Computer Science).

In a study presented on May 23-26th at the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, researchers at the University of Chicago developed a framework to systematically evaluate existing anti-facial recognition tools and describe how creators of similar tools can design them to be even more resilient to the evolving landscape of facial recognition.