Wendy Calderon

Wendy Calderon has interests in using data-driven and mathematical approaches to support policy, planning, and decision-making. She is a member of the second cohort of the Simons STEM Scholars Program, where she has grown academically and personally within a supportive STEM community.

At Stony Brook, Wendy serves as Vice President of the Stony Brook Chapter of SIAM and is the founder and president of Women in Math. She is also an undergraduate research assistant in the Housing Recovery and Climate Risk Research Lab, where she studies how communities experience disaster damage and recovery differently, with the goal of identifying more equitable solutions.

Wendy is also a published author in Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics, where her summer research project, “A Doubly Stochastic Model of Government Interventions to Preserve Ecosystem Services in the Context of Large Scale Industrial Agriculture,” was published. Through these research experiences, her interest in applying mathematical reasoning and data-driven methods to real-world problems has continued to grow.

Her long-term academic goal is to pursue a PhD and contribute to interdisciplinary research that uses mathematics, statistics, and computation to address social, environmental, and policy-related challenges. As a first-generation Latina and woman in mathematics, Wendy hopes to continue building community, supporting students from underrepresented backgrounds, and inspiring others to pursue their own pathways in STEM.