With a background in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Susie Rao is now working as a Data Science researcher at the Chair of Applied Economics and a PhD candidate at the DS3Lab under the co-supervision Prof. Ce Zhang (technical) and Prof. Peter Egger (domain). She graduated from the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich (Director: Prof. Martin Volk).

Her research interests are dynamic network analysis, information extraction, natural language processing and their applicability to various domains such as bibliometrics, e-commerce, and applied economics.