People

People are at the heart of our work to advance data science. The vibrant fellowship group includes a diverse array of faculty, staff, and students from departments across Yale.

Leadership

John Lafferty

John C. Malone Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Bhramar Mukherjee

Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity; Anna M.R Lauder Professor of Biostatistics; Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Statistics and Data Science

Steering Committee Members

Anthony Koleske

Ensign Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neuroscience

Daniel A. Spielman

Sterling Professor of Computer Science; Professor Statistics and Data Science and of Mathematics

Gregory Huber

Forst Family Professor of Political Science, resident fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics and the Director of the ISPS Behavioral Research Lab

Lucila Ohno-Machado

Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics; Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Lynn Cooley

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; C. N. H. Long Professor of Genetics and Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mark Gerstein

Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Steven Kleinstein

Anthony N Brady Professor of Pathology; Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Yihong Wu

James A. Attwood Professor of Statistics and Data Science; Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science

Administration

Robert Harper-Mangels

Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Support, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Emily Hau

Associate Director

Jackson Higginbottom

Assistant Director

Fellows

We look forward to welcoming our first fellows in Fall 2026.