Shuba Gopal is a data scientist and Senior People Scientist in the People Insights group at the Broad Institute. She develops data-driven approaches to support the Broad community as it seeks to accelerate the understanding and treatment of human diseases. She studies how scientific teams collaborate and explores ways to model how people engage with each other, their physical environment and with the institute. Previously, she was a computational biologist, developing algorithms and statistical methods to predict clinical outcomes in diseases states. Gopal was co-chair of an institute-wide strategic planning exercise known as Broadnext10. She helped lead a workstream focused on defining the key components of Broad’s culture and what would be needed to sustain it in the decade ahead. She has published numerous scientific papers, co-authored a bioinformatics textbook and was recognized with a Broad Excellence and Achievement award in 2014. Gopal earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her PhD in Computational Genomics from Rockefeller University. She taught bioinformatics at the Rochester Institute of Technology for five years prior to joining the Broad Institute in 2009.