Michael Willen is a junior in Yale College from Philadelphia majoring in statistics and data science. His work with the center involves a multidisciplinary project focused on remote sensing analysis of carbon abundance, analyzing satellite images using spectral indices and applying deep learning techniques with AI and GIS tools.
In summer 2024, he was a Dwight Hall Summer Fellow and an undergraduate research assistant at the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, where he worked on a project surveying and identifying differing levels of accessibility in New York’s non-ADA-compliant subway stations. His interests lie in the ways in which the world connects and how we can employ data to improve the daily lives of the people who inhabit it.
