Tharuna Kalaivanan is a PhD student in the Public and Applied Sociology Program at George Mason University. She graduated from George Mason University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2020. She is also an Honors College Alum.
Tatum McKay, Master of Public Health student at the College of Health and Human Services, has been analyzing de-identified data from the COVID Health Check✓™ to provide insight into testing rates and how to best mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on campus.
Director of the MS Data Analytics Engineering program, James Baldo, presented how algorithm biases arise and what changes are needed to increase fairness.
A new credential in Data Analytics will help undergraduates hone their skills in handling big data.
Research Interests: Data mining, Statistical graphics, Knowledge visualization, Data exploration, Analysis of massive data sets