Saima Akhtar
Senior Associate Director, Vagelos Computational Science Center
Dr. Saima Akhtar is the Senior Associate Director of the Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC) at Barnard College. She is a computational social scientist with a background in architecture. Prior to joining Barnard, Saima was a postdoctoral associate in the Yale University Department of Computer Science, where she managed digital cultural heritage preservation projects between the fields of computer science and architecture.
At the CSC, Saima works with faculty and students on creatively and critically thinking about building technology and the application of computing across disciplines.
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- B.S., B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor