University · Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Economics · Information Science — where I think and build.
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About the University
The University of Wisconsin–Madison sits on the western shore of Lake Mendota, in the heart of Madison — one of America's most consistently livable cities. Founded in 1848, the same year Wisconsin became a state, it was built on the belief that a university should serve not just its students, but society.
That philosophy — known as the Wisconsin Idea — still defines the place. Research here isn't siloed. It bleeds into policy, industry, and the wider world. UW is regularly ranked among the top five research universities in the United States, with strength across medicine, engineering, social sciences, and the humanities.
For me, it's the right tension: rigorous enough to challenge how I think, open enough to let me build across disciplines.
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My Programs
Economics
College of Letters & Science
One of the top economics departments in the country, with particular strength in econometrics, behavioral economics, and applied microeconomics.
The training goes beyond theory — it builds the habit of reasoning from data, modeling uncertainty, and stress-testing assumptions.
It taught me how markets fail, how incentives shape behavior, and how to read a situation before deciding how to act in it.
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Information Science
School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS)
CDIS is UW's interdisciplinary home for computing, data systems, and human-centered technology. The Information Science program sits at the intersection of people, systems, and society.
Coursework spans data management, AI and machine learning, human-computer interaction, information architecture, and digital ethics.
It gave me the technical vocabulary and systems-thinking lens I needed to move from strategy to actual product — to not just diagnose, but build.
Key Courses
Why This Combination
The combination isn't accidental. Economics trained my analytical lens — how to frame a problem, weight evidence, and reason about trade-offs under uncertainty. Information Science gave me the systems vocabulary to act on those insights — to build products, think in architectures, and navigate the intersection of technology and human behavior. Together, they're the intellectual infrastructure behind everything I do.