About

I am a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s Statistics and Data Science department. Before that, I attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, where I graduated with a double major in mathematics and philosophy in Spring 2024. At Pomona, I primarily conducted research with Jo Hardin, working on projects in both statistical genomics and data science ethics pedagogy.

Outside of research, I really enjoy teaching. So far, I have been a graduate TA for two courses at CMU, and I will TA for the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Summer Camp and co-instruct some lectures on data analysis with R as part of SURE 2025 this summer.

Another primary interest of mine is philosophy, particularly (feminist) philosophy of science, ethics, and (social) epistemology. I hope to stay engaged in philosophy and, with that, work to understand the ethical dimensions of statistical technologies while completing my Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon.

Current Research Projects (May 2025)

  • Predicting Avoidance Ties in Avoidance Networks Leveraging only the Positive Network between the Same Individuals and Basic Node-Level Characteristics (Advanced Data Analysis project, in collaboration with Nynke Niezink and Eva Jaspers)

  • Selecting Chip-Seq Normalization Methods from the Perspective of their Technical Conditions (in collaboration with Jo Hardin and Danae Schulz)

  • Analyzing Statistics Students’ Writing Before and After the Emergence of Large Language Models (in collaboration with my cohort-mate, Erin Franke)

  • Teaching Data Cleaning and Wrangling with the data.table R Package (also with Erin Franke)

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics (in progress); Carnegie Mellon University

B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy (May 2024); Pomona College

Contact

scolando@andrew.cmu.edu