Arya Farahi

Arya Farahi

Data Science Fellow at the University of Michigan. Previously McWilliams fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Ph.D. in Physics and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan. Co-founder of Michigan-Data Informed Cities for Everyone (M-DICE). Former VP of projects at Michigan Data Science Team (MDST). Member of the Cosmostatistics Initiative (COINS), Baryon Pasters (BP), and >10 other research teams. Educator, Computer Scientist, Statistician, and Astronomer. Passionate about data science for social good.

Select Press Coverage

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 1
- The Paper
- Press Release, DES Website
Flint Water Crisis Project
- Engineering for Change, Data Scientists Pinpoint Sources of Lead Contamination to Solve the Flint Water Crisis, February 2017
- The New York Times, University of Michigan, Google Create Flint Water Crisis App, December 2016
- University of Michigan, News Service, Google-funded Flint water app helps residents find lead risk, resources, December 2016
- MLive, Number of homes that need new water pipes in Flint has doubled, study says, December 2016
- The Michigan Daily, Professors and students develop app to detect contaminated lead pipes in Flint, October 2016
The XXL Survey – first results
- Astronomy & Astrophysics, Special feature - The XXL Survey: First results, December 2015
- European Southern Observatory (ESO), XXL Hunt for Galaxy Clusters, December 2015
- European Space Agency (ESA), Unravelling the Cosmic Web: Survey Gives Insights into Universe’s Structure, December 2015
Dark Energy Survey:
- DES Website, Interview, September 2015

Multimedia Products

ActiveRemediation: The Search for Lead Pipes in Flint, Michigan, YouTube Link

A Data Science Approach to Understanding Residential Water Contamination in Flint, YouTube Link