Announcing the Spring 2017 hackNY Student Hackathon Judges

With our spring 2017 student hackathon only a week away, we're excited to announce the judges who will dole out prizes to the best hacks! Check out the full list of prizes on Devpost!

Anne BauerSenior Data Scientist at The New York Times About hackNY:"I am excited to see what problems the HackNY hackers will attack, and how they will create new solutions!"

Anne is a senior data scientist at the New York Times, where she builds models and data products to interpret and act on the company's data with a variety of groups including marketing, print circulation, and the newsroom. Before becoming a data scientist she was an astrophysics and cosmology postdoc in Barcelona and Munich, and received her Ph.D. in physics from Yale. She enjoys building systems to turn intractable amounts of data into usable insights.

	Jenn SchifferCommunity Glitch Engineer at Fog Creek About hackNY:"I'm always excited about tech communities that recognize a need in the overall industry and turn their focus to it–in the case of HackNY that's civic tech. It's time for technologists to help others more and be celebrated for it, and I look forward to witnessing that first-hand."
Jenn works on Fog Creeks latest product, Glitch, an in-browser IDE with a focus on inclusive community, ethical tech, and creativity. Along with making art and jokes and apps, she runs the meetup JerseyScript in Jersey City and co-emcees/organizes Brooklyn JS. She has never swum across an entire river but she could probably do it easily.

Robyn BurgessConversion Director at BounceXFounder & Editor-in-Chief at Runaway Apricot About hackNY:“I love how resourceful hackathons force participants to become. The skills to overcome the time crunch and manage clashing personalities on a team are as invaluable to life in business as the creative problem solving inherent in hackathon challenges.”

As a Conversion Director at Bounce Exchange, Robyn turns website visitors into customers for a portfolio of clients by tailoring websites to user behavior. Previously Robyn was a Client Relationship Manager at Experian Marketing Services, where she developed strategic cross-channel marketing solutions across the entire spectrum of the customer life cycle. Robyn's growing expertise in all facets of digital marketing is joined with a lifelong passion to explore the question: Why do we eat the way we do? As an Anthropology major at Columbia University, Robyn founded Runaway Apricot, a food blog committed to teaching people the skills to be better cooks and the resources to be more enlightened consumers. Her essays and recipes for local, seasonal and healthy cooking from scratch now reach over a million readers per year.

Runa SandvikDirector of Information Security,Newsroom at the New York Times About hackNY:“Hackathons are a great place to experiment, be creative, learn new things, and meet people who are passionate about what they do.”

Runa is a privacy and security researcher, working at the intersection of technology, law and policy. When she is not hacking rifles or writing articles for Forbes, she teaches digital security to journalists and helps media organizations improve their security posture. Runa loves to travel and has spoken at numerous conferences around the world. She is a former developer with The Tor Project, a technical advisor to the Freedom of the Press Foundation and a member of the review board for Black Hat Europe. She tweets as @runasand.

Tracy ChouFounding Team Member at Project Incude About hackNY:“I love that hackathons are all about the ethos of creativity and creation with code; can't wait to see what people build!”
Tracy is co-founder and CTO of Elucd, a new startup that measures and quantifies community sentiment to enable data-driven management of public sector institutions. She is also a co-founder of the Arena Summit and Project Include. Previously, Tracy has been a tech lead and software engineer at Pinterest, Quora, and the U.S. Digital Service. Tracy is most well-known for her work pushing for diversity in tech; she was named to the Forbes Tech 30 under 30 list in 2014 and has been profiled in Vogue, WIRED, The Atlantic, and other outlets for her advocacy. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Thank you again to all our wonderful judges. We're looking forward to seeing everyone (and their hacks!) next weekend!
To see who else has judged for hackNY, take a look at our hackathon judges from Fall 2016, Spring 2016, and Fall 2015 (part 1 and part 2)