Hana Ševčíková is a Senior Research Scientist at CSDE and CSSS. She earned an MS in Computer Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany and PhD in Statistics at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. Since 2003 she has worked at the UW on various projects involving statistical and parallel computing. For the past 15 years, she has worked in the area of statistical and computational demography, and developed many publicly available R packages. She is a part of the UW team that developed methodology and software that the United Nations adopted for their probabilistic world population projections for all countries. More recently, she has worked on developing methodology for probabilistic demographic projections on the subnational level, including for Washington State.
Hana also works as a Data Scientist at the Puget Sound Regional Council where she contributes to regional land use modeling. She was a core developer of the UrbanSim software, an agent-based land use model used by many Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the United States.
June Yang is a research scientist at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and the eScience Institute.
As a Computational Demographer, June focuses on applying Natural Language Processing methods to the study of population family formation processes, gender disparity, and demographic inference. She is expanding her skillset by using Large Language Models in text data annotation and measurement development. A second strain of her current research focuses on complex survey analysis, particularly using network-based samples to study vulnerable, hard-to-reach populations. June also has extensive experience working with administrative data sources.
June is finishing her Ph.D. in Sociology from UW in Spring 2024 with concentrations in Demographic Methods and Social Statistics. Before starting a Ph.D. at the UW, she worked as a research analyst at the Development Data Group of the World Bank.
Methodologies: Natural Language Processing, Complex Survey Analysis, Social Network Analysis, Causal Inference
Languages: R, Python, SQL
Parwati Martin has been with the University of Washington since 2012 and was previously with the Geography Department for almost 8 years! Parwati has vast experience in her field including receiving an internship from UW Accounts Payable while completing her Bookkeeping Certificate. She received her AA in Accounting at North Seattle College and then went on to join UW in 2012 to work for Housing and Food Services’ Cash Office for four years. She then later joined the Geography Department as Fiscal Specialist in 2016. Parwati’s interests include enjoying the outdoors, weight lifting, hiking, playing with her cat and dog, and dancing, specifically Indonesian Traditional Dance.
Some of her responsibilities will be to manage staff payroll and components of academic staff/faculty compensation, provide fiscal management of Center and grant funding, and serve as approver for Workday entries. The best way to reach her is by email at pnmartin@uw.edu.
Maddie Farris is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE). She graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Strategic Communications and Business Administration. Maddie can help you with any questions, support your events, travel, reimbursements, and any program coordination. The best way to reach Maddie is through csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu
Tina Swenson is the Administrator for the Center for the Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) providing grant and fiscal, human resources, and personnel administration. Prior to joining CSDE, she has served as the Administrator for the School of Drama and Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, as well as other roles across campus. Tina holds a BA from and has worked at the University of Washington for 16 years. In her personal time, she enjoys hiking, biking, traveling, and fostering rescue dogs.
Mike Renz is the Program Coordinator for CSDE. He was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley region of Southern California where he attended Citrus Community College, majoring in Fine Arts. He also completed a certification course with The Institute of Children’s Literature, chasing his youthful dream of becoming a young adult author. At CSDE, Mike assists with purchasing, budget reconciliation, coordinating travel, event planning, website management, among a myriad of other hats. Prior to joining CSDE at UW, Mike dipped his toes into many vocational lakes, working as a vault clerk, an office manager, a chiropractic X-ray tech and a mail carrier for the USPS. In his spare time, Mike enjoys spending time with his chosen LGBTQIA+ family, hosting dinner parties, HIIT training, yoga and lap dates with his cat, Minx.