Meet Our Team
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Center for Computational & Social Sciences in Health (COMPASS)
625 N. Michigan Ave., 15th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
312-503-5338
compass-center@northwestern.edu
Leadership
Michelle A. Birkett, PhD
Pronouns: she/they
Center Director
Associate Professor
Patrick Janulis, PhD
Pronouns: he/him
Center Associate Director
Associate Professor
Administration
Kate Banner
Pronouns: she/her
Center Administrator
Director of Research Operations
Louis Porras, BA
Pronouns: they/he
Center Administrative Associate
Data Assistant Associate
Core Faculty
Joshua Stadlan, PhD
Pronouns: he/him
Center Core Faculty
Research Assistant Professor
Development
Joshua Melville, MSc
Pronouns: he/they
Head of Development & Design
Senior Research Associate
Caden Buckhalt, BA
Pronouns: he/him
Intermediate Software Engineer
Staff
Samantha Stoll, MS
Pronouns: she/her
Temp Research Data Analyst
Mentees
Emily Esposito, PhD
Pronouns: she/her
Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University
Sijia Wei, PhD, RN, PHN
Pronouns: she/her
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
K99/R00 Awardee
Kathyrn Risher, PhD, MHS
Pronouns: she/her
Assistant Professor, Penn State University
K01 Awardee
Affiliated NAISE Institute Fellows
Jonathan Ozik, PhD
Large-scale agent-based models, Biosystems, AI/Deep Learning
Charles Macal, PhD
Senior Technical Advisor & Social, Behavioral, and Decision Science Group Leader
Interns
- Amada Garcia, IMSA Intern
Former Lab Members
- B.R. Slone, Research Data Analyst
- Jordan Henry, IMSA Intern
- Maya Hardwood, NIDA Summer Research Program Intern
- Anika Wilsnack, Network Canvas Intern
- Xiaowei Chen, Network Canvas Intern
- Tubanji Walubita, Graduate Student
- Dylan Felt, Data Assistant Associate
- Angela Freeman, Graduate Student
- Cate Durudogan, Bias in Big Data Intern
- Camile Galles, Graduate Research Assistant
- Liz McConnell, Graduate Student, F31 Awardee
- Bálint Néray, Postdoctoral Research Fellow