Meet our team mentors

Meet our talented team mentors! They will be mentoring the participant teams competing in the event.

Jeffrey Yuan

Fourth-year BS/MS student in Statistics and Data Science, Northwestern University

Jeffrey is passionate about data science, machine learning, and AI, and currently works as a Data Scientist at CME Group. His work has explored topics such as graph neural networks, recommendation systems, LLM chain-of-thought reasoning, and agentic AI tools for complex data workflows. On campus, Jeffrey’s research focuses on applying statistical and machine learning methods to problems in drug discovery and medical AI, including improving reasoning and counterfactual analysis in large language models. He also enjoys teaching and mentoring students in statistics and data science, and has served as a teaching assistant for Northwestern’s Data Science sequence and Advanced Machine Learning courses. Outside of data science, he enjoys playing basketball, swimming, and exploring new food spots around Chicago.

At DataFest, Jeffrey is excited to collaborate with different teams, dive into new datasets, and uncover the interesting stories hidden in data.

Jake Miller

Data Science Senior, Northwestern University

Throughout his college career Jake has taken many classes in the Statistics department and have most enjoyed my coursework in machine learning techniques. Some projects he has worked on include building and quantizing a CNN model to create a lightweight word detection model and building a dashboard to help breakdown call data for a non-profit law firm. Though he started full time work in September, he is currently working on a personal project to build an NBA salary cap manager application. As a mentor, Jake hopes to be a great sounding board for his mentees to bounce ideas off of. Jake also loves to talk more about his school and career path to give insights in any way and place that he can.