About Our Project

Learn more about our mission to address lead service lines in Chicago

Eileen Garay

Co-Leader / Statistical team

RStudio, Python, Data Mining, Data visualization, Machine Learning
egaray@hawk.iit.edu

Virginia Reider

Co-Leader / Statistical Lead

RStudio, Statistical Analysis, Regression Modeling, Data Visualizations, Ethical Analysis
vreider@hawk.iit.edu

Rajan Savani

Spokesperson / ML Lead

ML, RStudio, Exploratory Data Analysis, Linear Algebra
rsavani@hawk.iit.edu

Austin Samuel

Full Stack / Data Wrangler / ML

Full-Stack, Front-End, Data Scraping, Visualization, ML, Langchain
asamuel5@hawk.iit.edu

Elijah Perez

Data Optimization / ML

ML, Linear Algebra, Data Handling
eperez36@hawk.iit.edu

Lalith Kothuru

Full-Stack Developer / ML

Full-stack, ML, Data Scraping
lkothuru@hawk.iit.edu

Subject Matter Experts

Elin Betanzo

President and founder of Safe Water Engineering LLC, a consulting firm working to improve access to safe drinking water through policy consulting and engineering.

Played a key role in uncovering the Flint Water Crisis and has extensive experience with lead service line issues.

BlueConduit

A company that uses Machine Learning driven predictive modeling to classify lead service lines composition.

In Flint, Michigan, they achieved an 80% hit rate while replacing lead lines, saving millions by reducing unnecessary excavations.