JT Tao ’22, Computer Science

JT Tao ’22

Major

Computer Science

Project Title

Environmental Risk and Corporate Climate

Certificate(s): American Studies, Statistics and Machine Learning

I worked on a project involving the relationship between natural disasters and perceived risk of environmental issues, and another regarding financial institutions and their environmental policies. For the first project, I looked at available spatial data in New York City, particularly land-use and the risk of different natural disasters. My research group focused on COVID-19 by looking at both how it affected different areas of New York City, as well as the number of community initiatives that exist in different neighborhoods. For the second project, I looked at third-party evaluations of financial institutions and how their environmental policies have been evaluated in the past.

* This internship is connected to the HMEI Urban Grand Challenges project, “Norm Dynamics as Agents of Urban Social Change and Environmental Sustainability: Investigating Cross-Cultural Differences and Longevity of Intervention.”