Sambit Panda is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he is advised by Dr. Joshua T. Vogelstein. His research focuses on the following topics: causal inference, hypothesis testing, neuroscience, and random forest extensions. He received a MSE in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins in 2020, and he received a BS in Biomedical Engineering and Biology from North Carolina State University in 2018. He received the Goodnight Scholarship in 2018 and the National Institutes of Health T32-a Grant in 2020. He has also reviewed papers for SoftwareX and SciPy (2020, 2021) and chaired for SciPy (2020, 2021, 2023).