This week's #humansofoiss features the OISS
This week’s #humansofoiss features the OISS Armadillo (“Dillo” for short) from Costa Rica. He is a mischievous staff member whose favorite thing to do is hide around the office and surprise the OISS staff.
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Dillo is a Sagittarius and an ISFP. He grew up in Costa Rica and now lives at OISS. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Bigfoot Hunting and a Master’s degree in Extraterrestrial Conspiracy Theories, both from the Yale School of Cryptozoology.
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This week's #humansofoiss features Fern Limprayoon
This week’s #humansofoiss features Fern Limprayoon from Thailand. She is a first year PhD student in Computer Science.
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Meet Zahra Rizvi from India for this week's
Meet Zahra Rizvi from India for this week’s #humansofoiss! Zahra grew up in Delhi, India. She did her undergraduate and Master’s studies at Delhi University, and she is doing her Ph.D. in the English Department at Jamia Millia Islamia. She was able to get the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Grant to conduct research here at Yale, where she can focus on finishing her thesis.
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This week, I interviewed Mattia Vezzoli from Italy
This week, I interviewed Mattia Vezzoli from Italy. He is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering.
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Mattia was born in Desenzano del Garda and did his engineering studies at Universita degli studi di Brescia for his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. While he was writing his thesis during his Master’s, he was offered an internship opportunity at Yale and he spent six months working as a research assistant. After returning to Italy and working for two years there, Mattia decided to come back to Yale and continue his scientific career as a PhD student.
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Let me introduce you to the first #humansofoiss of
Let me introduce you to the first #humansofoiss of 2023 - Bianka Mecaj from Albania. She is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Physics Department.
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For this week's #humansofoiss, I would love to
For this week’s #humansofoiss, I would love to introduce you to Jiawen Zhang, the other social media curator who has been working with me and creating wonderful social media content for our international community!
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Q: Why did you choose to come to the US?
I interviewed George Palaiokrassas from Greece for
I interviewed George Palaiokrassas from Greece for this week’s #humansofoiss. George is a Postdoc Associate in Electrical Engineering and Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS). He grew up in Athens, Greece and studied electrical & computer engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. George conducted his undergraduate, graduate and postdoc studies there where his research was focused on machine learning and blockchain and he had opportunities to attend many conferences. Eventually he decided to join Yale for new experiences abroad.
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I met with Alma Trujillo Miranda, a PhD student at
I met with Alma Trujillo Miranda, a PhD student at the School of Environment this week and was very keen to learn about her stories.
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Let's meet this week's #humansofoiss - Lakshimi
Let’s meet this week’s #humansofoiss - Lakshimi Swaminathan from India!
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“I’m currently a pre-doctoral research associate in the Yale Program of Financial Stability led by Prof. Andrew Metrick under the School of Management. My responsibility along with the other RA’s is to prepare case-studies on interventions that were influential in shaping financial crises of the past so that we can prevent history from repeating itself by helping policy-makers take well-informed decisions.
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