Education & Operations Quality Lab

What we do

Team

Directed by Samantha Keppler, NBD Bancorp Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations, University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Research Assistants

Building a repository of education operations data on districts, schools, teachers, and students.

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Eliot Ahn

EOQ Lab research assistant

Nimer Fitani

An undergraduate at Michigan studying Data Science, drawn to using data to answer meaningful questions and solve real-world problems. In the EOQ Lab he downloads and organizes data from multiple U.S. states to support the lab's education-data research, building programming skills and algorithms through hands-on work.

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Natalie Gao

EOQ Lab research assistant

Franklin Huang

A Master's student in Applied Statistics. Frank graduated from NYU with a BS in Business and worked several years in finance as a product manager before returning to school to move into more technical work. Outside of research and classes, he's kayaking and fishing the lakes around Michigan.

Aniket Panthri

A first-year MS Data Science student at Michigan. With a background in full-stack development at FedEx, he now builds with LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), on a foundation of Python, SQL, and AWS. Off the clock, he's watching or talking soccer, or gaming.

Saihajpreet Singh

A Master's student in Data Science interested in medical image segmentation, vision-language models, and 3D computer vision. He is passionate about applying machine learning to real-world problems, with a focus on multimodal AI systems. Outside research, he enjoys chess.

Nikhil Janarthan Surendran

A Master's student in Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan. Before graduate school he worked as an Application Engineer building full-stack applications, backend services, and scalable data pipelines. His interests sit at the intersection of software engineering and AI, building intelligent, scalable systems for real-world use.

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Vijay Tirumalai

A junior studying Computer Engineering and Data Science at Michigan. On the lab's data-collection team he builds the public-education data pipeline, focusing on browser automation and reverse-engineering state data portals to unlock hard-to-reach public data. Outside the lab, he enjoys cooking, baking, and reading.