satej soman

hello, i'm satej. thank you for stopping by my institutionally-mandated profile. you're looking very self-confident today. i hope you have a chance to do something you've been putting off for a while that's been weighing on your mind.

at the ischool, i use remotely-sensed data (e.g. satellite imagery, digital traces) and statistical and computational techniques to study global trends in inequality, urbanization, and the built environment.

before coming to the ischool, i spent time advising governments in south and southeast asia on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, designed participatory urban planning tools for informal settlement activists in western and sub-saharan africa, led engineering teams building data management platforms in the private sector, and worked at a startup leveraging computer vision techniques for gesture-based interfaces.

my undergrad was in materials science and electrical engineering at cal (#bearssquared) and i picked up a master's degree in computational analysis and public policy from the harris school at the university of chicago.