Joelle Gross

Assistant Director

Bio

My name is Joelle Gross and I am the Assistant Director of Data Science & Analytics at the University of Pennsylvania. I am also pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering in Data Science through Penn Engineering. During election cycles, I work as Decision Desk Exit Poll Analyst for NBC News.

I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Politics, Philosophy, Economics and a minor in Survey Research and Data Analytics. After graduating from Penn I spent two years working as a research associate with the MIT Election Data & Science Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected Publications

2023. Joelle Gross, Samuel Baltz, and Charles Stewart III. “What happens when the president calls you an ‘enemy of the people’? Election officials and public sentiment”. Election Law Journal.
2023. Joelle Gross, Samuel Baltz, Thessalia Merivaki, Mara Suttmann-Lea, and Charles Stewart III. “Online hostility towards local election officials surged in 2020”. Ed. Dari Tran. Pandemic at the Polls: How the Politics of COVID-19 Played into American Elections, Lexington Press.