Shruthi Ramani is a MS student in Data Science for Public Policy at Cornell University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, public policy, and digital governance and security, with a particular focus on how data-driven technologies can inform effective, equitable, and evidence-based policymaking. Her work draws on experience in education policy, behavioral decision science, and comparative technology regulation, including research on digital dark patterns and AI-related governance challenges in different countries. 

Mahasti Yuanita is an MPA student at Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Her research interests focus on economic governance, emerging technologies, inequality, and conflict vulnerability in domestic, transnational, and global policy issues. Before coming to Cornell, she worked on macroeconomic and fiscal policy in Indonesia, with experience in policy analysis, cross-ministerial coordination, and international economic cooperation.

Nikky Suárez is an incoming fourth-year Colombian American doctoral student in Cornell's Comparative Literature program raised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Her multicultural positioning within her doctoral research examines Afro-Indigenous cumbia as an embodied archive, tracing how the movement of the dancers mirrors the flows of human migration within how colonialism restructures land and memory across continents into Colombia through the historical significance of the Magdalena River.

Filip Galic is a PhD candidate in architectural history whose research examines how architectural ideology shifted as transformations in the transnational political economy and conflicts reshaped the conditions of architectural practice between Europe and post-Ottoman Non-Aligned geographies during the long Cold War. His work follows architect-planner-pedagogues moving across uneven postcolonial relations to ask how architectural knowledge was produced, translated, and mobilized for reciprocal ideological projects under asymmetrical conditions.

Ziyi Wang is an Economics PhD and JD candidate at Cornell University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include Economic Development, Industrial Organization, Innovation, Platform Economics, and Empirical Legal Studies. She is a Research Associate at the UN75 Global Governance Forum. She is from Beijing, China.