Katherine Spoon

Katie Spoon is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also pursuing a master degree’s in education policy. Her research uses data science to investigate social inequalities at scale — in scientific careers, education, politics and healthcare. She is currently a data science fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau. Previously, she worked as a research engineer at IBM Research, and studied computer science at Indiana University, where she developed an early-warning system to detect dyslexia.