Mac Gagné (She/They)
Emergency and Incident Management
- Email: mmgagne@ncsu.edu
- Website: https://adventuresandalgorithms.com
Madeleine “Mac” Gagné is a Ph.D. student in the Operations Research Program at NC State University. She enjoys studying the applications of narrative artificial intelligence to emergency management and their hobbies include writing, gardening, and sewing.
Research Interests
Gagné’s research specializes in narrative artificial intelligence applications to emergency management. Interests include applied mathematics, causal inference, narrative AI, dynamic programming, linear programming, emergency management and weather-based disaster infrastructure.
Advisor
Dr. Arnav Jhala
Education
Degree | Program | School | Year |
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Expected Graduation | Spring 2025 | ||
BSAMS | Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematical Strategies | Duke University | 2021 |
Honors and Awards
- 2021 | Graduate Merit Award, North Carolina State University
- 2021 | Community Service Award, Duke University Mathematics Department
- 2021 | Brooke Owens Fellow
- 2021 | First Place Student Presentation, American Meteorological Society
- 2016 | Presentation of Personal Research to the United State’s Navy’s Department of Energy at The Pentagon
Publications
TEDx Presentations
Prior Internships
- 2021 | Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- 2020 | National Weather Service
- 2020-2021 | Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
- 2019-2021 | Duke University Research Assistant to Dr. David Siegel
- 2018-2019 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
NC State Club Affiliations
- Women and Minorities in Engineering Program
- NC State English Club
