Taylor Vander
Hometown: Slidell, Louisiana
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-vander-a5a316283/
Biography
Taylor Vander is a rising senior computer science major with minors in mathematics and sociology at Howard University. She has conducted research alongside Dr. Taylor Lee at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, where she created an updated distribution of clay minerals in the World Ocean through hyper-parameterized geospatial machine learning. Since June 2024, she has been conducting research at the University of Southern California’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS) under the mentorship of Dr. Phebe Vayanos. During her time at CAIS, she has analyzed the impact of self-reported survey question rewording on housing prioritization tool performance for unhoused populations. With aspirations to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Vander is dedicated to applying innovative techniques in computer science to alleviate critical social issues and contribute to real-world change.
