CSDA team members

Rhema Vaithianathan
Rhema Vaithianathan
Director

Rhema is director and co-founder of the Centre for Social Data Analytics.  Rhema currently has a leading role on several predictive analytics projects in the United States.

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Larissa Lorimer
Larissa Lorimer
Project Manager

Larissa is  CSDA’s project manager and ensures that projects are delivered on time and to the satisfaction of partner agencies.

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Emily Kulick
Emily Kulick
US Project Manager

Emily is based in Chicago, and ensures existing projects are on track and regularly shares CSDA’s work with interested groups and individuals around the US.

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Lijuan (Athena) Ning
Lijuan (Athena) Ning
Software Engineer

Athena is a senior IT engineer specialising in programming, data visualisation and bridging the gap between data scientists and agencies.

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Trish Marsters
Trish Marsters
Coordinator

Trish looks after all of the Centre’s administration needs, from finance, contracts, travel, events and HR to supporting smooth day-to-day operation.

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Haley Dinh
Haley Dinh
Research Assistant

Hayley supports the team with data quality assurance and data visualisation. She also helps with model building and evaluation.

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Ye (Zoe) Ye
Ye (Zoe) Ye
PhD Student and Research Assistant

Ye (Zoe) is the recipient of a 2018 AUT Vice Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship and is completing a PhD in Economics partially supervised by Rhema Vaithianathan.

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Oliver Vovchenko
Oliver Vovchenko
PhD Student

Oliver is completing a PhD supervised by Tim Maloney and Rhema Vaithianathan, investigating the causal influence of social housing on individual wellbeing.

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Alex Poor
Alex Poor
PhD Student

Alex is the recipient of a 2018 AUT Vice-Chancellor's Doctoral Scholarship. His PhD investigates using decentralised technologies to achieve data sovereignty in the NZ health sector.

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