Maithreyi Gopalan, PhD

Maithreyi Gopalan is an Associate Professor at University of Oregon. Most recently, she was an Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy and a Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) co-funded faculty at The Pennsylvania State University. She also served as the Inaugural Data Science Impact Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in 2023-24. She earned her PhD in Public Affairs from the O’Neill School of Public Affairs at Indiana University. Her overarching research interest lies in conducting interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research at the intersection of education and health using social psychological insights.