ROHAN DAYAL

Columbia University Chapter President

Rohan Dayal is a junior in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University. He is majoring in computer science, and in particular is interested in applications of data science and AI. Within data science and AI, Rohan has worked on research at the Columbia DSI on natural language processing of Reddit data to understand the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare quality, as well as additional NLP and software engineering projects as an intern at NASA. In his free time, Rohan enjoys reading books on economics, contemporary history, business, and science fiction, as well as listening to podcasts on the same topics. Rohan is also a sports aficionado and he enjoys using his quantitative background to create models to help him beat his friends at fantasy football. Rohan is also interested in music; in addition to playing the piano and trumpet, Rohan enjoys learning about classical Indian music and percussion instruments such as the tabla.