Moon Duchin

Moon Duchin (MS’99, PhD’05) is a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Chicago.  Her background in pure math centers on geometry, topology, groups, and dynamics; her applied work uses these tools to build algorithms and models to study the mechanisms of democracy.  She runs a multidisciplinary lab bringing math and computing into conversation with law, policy, and geography.  Duchin has served as an expert in numerous voting rights court cases around the country, and her scholarly work has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Sloan Professorship at SLMath (formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) and by election as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.  She is also an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute, which is dedicated to the study of complex systems.