Staff Bios

Raj Choudhary

Raj Choudhary

Applied Scientist

Raj Choudhary is an applied scientist at the School of Government and Policy, where he leads data-science projects that support public-sector innovation and evidence-based policymaking. He manages cross-sector projects, oversees data infrastructure and security, and mentors junior staff. Previously, as a data scientist at the NYU Marron Institute, he developed practice-informed data tools for criminal-justice and social-policy initiatives. Raj holds a Master of Science in data science from the NYU Center for Data Science and a Bachelor of Technology in computer science and engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology (India).

Email: [email protected]

Yuki Cui

Yuki Cui

Applied Scientist

Yuki Cui is an applied scientist at the School of Government and Policy. Previously, she was a junior research scientist at the NYU Marron Institute on data-driven criminal justice projects, focusing on improving data accessibility to support decisionmaking. She was a data scientist for Information Tracer, developing bot-detection algorithms in collaboration with Global Witness, and building election-monitoring dashboards in partnership with Tecnológico de Monterrey and Rolli. Yuki holds a Master of Science in data science from the NYU Center for Data Science and a Bachelor of Science in quantitative finance with a minor in statistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Email: [email protected]