Tamanna Urmi

Tamanna (she/her) is a first year Ph.D. student working with Professor Samuel Scarpino in the Emergent Epidemics lab. She is interested in applying network science theory on studying epidemics and social inequality. She completed her Bachelor’s from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and also took several courses in Anthropology. She self-taught her way into data science as she worked on detecting fraud networks in Indonesian and Bangladeshi start-ups for ride-hailing and food delivery from 2019-21.