Graduate Fellows

Madison Fitzpatrick

Madison is a third-year doctoral student in the Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning program at NU, where she also received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. Her research is focused on statistical modeling of travel behavior, with applications in transportation policy and urban sustainability. In her free time, she plays bass with the NU....

David Little


David Little studies human learning and hearing in the communication sciences and disorders department. This is his second year in the department. His research focuses on elucidating the factors that determine whether people do or do not learn new skills, through human experiments and computer models.

Jessica Lodewyk

Jessica is a third-year graduate student in the Earth and Planetary Science department who focuses on seismology, the study of earthquakes and wave propagation through the earth. Her current research involves high-performance simulations of seismic waves through the interior of the earth and determining...

Scott Mayle

I am originally from Naperville, Illinois in the west suburbs of Chicago. I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recieving a bachelors degree in physics with minors in both math and chemistry. I am currently in my fourth year of a PhD program in physics at Northwestern University...

Marc Royster


I am currently pursuing my PhD as a fourth year graduate student at Northwestern University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. I am originally from California where I received my Bachelor's Degree in both Physics and Math at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I use...

Ramón Torres


Ramón is a third-year doctoral student in the field of Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning. His current research focuses on fundraising for nonprofit organizations. He uses stochastic modeling to describe donors’ giving behavior, to then determine which members would be...

Joseph Warfel

Joseph is a graduate student in industrial engineering at Northwestern University. He received a BA from Wabash College in mathematics and Spanish and taught high school math for three years in Texas. His research focuses on food bank logistics.