People

We bring together scholars from throughout Yale in many fields, including medicine, engineering, sociology, economics, computer science, biology, statistics, applied math, and physics. The Human Nature Lab provides a fertile environment for our researchers to engage new approaches and methodologies.

Edo Airoldi

Temple University

Marcus Alexander

Senior Research Associate

Coren L. Apicella

Samuel Arbesman

Edmond Awad

Bence Bago

Michael Barnett

Ryan Barrett

Postdoctoral Associate

Jonathan Beauchamp

Francesco Beghini

Postdoctoral Associate

Larry Bowman

Postdoctoral Associate

Jai Broome

Rafael A. Cárdenas-Heredia

Postgraduate Associate

Nicholas A. Christakis

Director

Forrest Crawford

Associate Professor

Jordan Cutler-Tietjen

Undergraduate

Paul Datta

Technical Architect

Jacob Derechin

Graduate Student

Peter DeWan

Dominik Duell

Matthew Dutkiewicz

Manager of Finance and Administration

Felix Elwert

Eric Feltham

Graduate Student

Derek Feng

Laura Forastiere

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics

Babak Fotouhi

Postdoctoral Associate

James Fowler

Feng Fu

Rachel Galvao

Samy Galvez

Assistant Program Manager

Laura Garcia

Kevin Garcia

Project Coordinator

David Gelvez Alvarez

Graduate Student

Amir Ghasemian

Postdoctoral Associate

Julia Gilbert

Juan Fernández Gracia

Swati Gupta

Emily Hau

Director of Programs and Partnerships, YINS

Catherine Henry

Research Assistant

William Hobbs

Amelia Holcomb

Elizabeth Hopkinson

Research Assistant

Addison Hu

Alison Hwong

George Iosifidis

Alexander Isakov

Postdoctoral Associate

Wyatt Israel

Software Engineer

Lei Jin

Matt Jones

Postdoctoral Associate

Malte Jung

Assistant Professor of Information Science

Thomas Keegan

Lab Director

David Kim

Gianna Kinsmen

Sandeep Kishore

Paul J. Krezanoski

Navin Kumar

Graduate Student (2016 - 2021)

​Sanjeev Kumar

Lecturer of Health Economics and Health Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management

Kim Kuzina

Senior Administrative Services Manager - Research

Elizabeth B. Lamont

Bruce E. Landon

John Sang Won Lee

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Selena Lee

Andrey Liscovich

Eric Liu

Research Coordinator

Andrea Lopez

Alice Lu

Research Assistant

Olga Maniati

Programmer Analyst

Gina Markov

Research Assistant

Michelle Mathews

Mark McKnight

Principal Software Engineer

Madison Molnar

Intern

Petergaye Murray

Research Coordinator

Julia Nadelmann

Ruchit Nagar

Sergio Nazaire

Rennie Negron, MPH

Associate Director for Research

Liza Nicoll

Data Scientist

Akihiro Nishi

A. James O'Malley

William Oles

Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Mark A. Pachucki

Marios V. Papamichalis

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sudeshna Paul

Rafael Pérez-Escamillac

Jessica M. Perkins

Michelle Phan

Research Assistant

Drew Prinster

Jackson Pullman

Research Assistant

David G. Rand

Associate Professor of Psychology, Economics & Management

Ana Karina Raygoza Cortez

Research Assistant

Caleb Rhodes

Brandi Richardson

Research Assistant

Ana Lucia Rodriguez de la Rosa

Associate Research Scientist

Niels Rosenquist

Soham Sankaran

Postgraduate Researcher

Vahid Satarifard

Postdoctoral Associate

Brian Scassellati

Professor of Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Holly B. Shakya

Associate Adjunct Professor, Family Med And Public Health

Andrew Sheinberg

Yongren Shi

Postdoctoral Associate

Hirokazu Shirado

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Mandy Singer

Administrative Assistant

Ben Snyder

Research Assistant

Yunkyu Sohn

Sam Southgate

Derek Stafford

Sarah Strohkorb Sebo

Graduate Student

Kate W. Strully

Shiv Sunil

Sae Takada

Leandros Tassiulas

Kira Tebbe

Duncan Tomlin

Mark Torres

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Margaret Traeger

Atsushi Ueshima

Postdoctoral Associate

Bianka Valentin

Research Coordinator

Maria Vassimon de Assis

Assistant Program Manager

Shivkumar Vishnempet Shridhar

Graduate Student

Aubrey Wahl

Andrew West

Research Assistant

James Williams

Zach Wood

Bradley Yam

Yoosik Youm

Blinky

Robot

Maggie Zalewska

Senior Administrative Assistant

Cyrus

Harrison H. Zhou

Department Chair, Statistics & Data Science