Team directory: V

Team directory: V

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Michelle Venetucci, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Michelle Venetucci is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, with an emphasis on economic anthropology. Her dissertation explores social and structural conditions that shape corporate environments in Silicon Valley, working at the intersection of speculative finance, middle class domesticity, and new technologies. As an ISPS fellow, she will study the regulatory landscape that creates favorable conditions for private equity and venture capital in the U.S., tracing the emergence of specific financial tools and analyzing their relationship to corporate expansion.

ISPS Faculty Fellow

Nisheeth Vishnoi, A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science

Professor Nisheeth Vishnoi’s research spans several areas of theoretical computer science: from approximability of NP-hard problems, to combinatorial, convex and non-convex optimization, to tackling algorithmic questions involving dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and polynomials.