Chethan is a PhD student in the Complexity & Society Lab, co-advised by Dr. Brennan Klein and Dr. Mauricio Santillana. His interests center on exploring diverse network modeling approaches to build interpretable statistical models of complex systems. Prior to starting his PhD at NetSI, he earned an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studied faculty mobility in academia and the emergence of linear hierarchies in networks.