TUA announces Jadon Chu as the 2026 Data Science & Urban Analytics Intern

We’re excited to announce our new Data Science & Urban Analytics intern, who has come on board with us over the summer thanks to an R&D Experience Grant from Callaghan Innovation/MBIE. Please give a warm welcome to Jadon Chu!

Jadon is a penultimate-year Master of Data Science student at the University of Auckland with a strong academic record and hands-on experience in data analytics, AI, and statistical modelling. He has led projects involving machine learning, natural language processing, and full-stack development, including an AI-powered social media simulation for his capstone project.

Jadon also leads the UoA Data Science Club - so for any other companies out there looking for amazing data-science students to work with, he’s a great connector

He’ll be working with us on developing a prototype for our Housing Insights Dashboard, visualising  all our New Zealand Housing Survey data. This is a key step in the evolution of our Housing Insights Tool; a data-driven decision support platform that integrates proprietary datasets with external sources (e.g., census data, property market trends, transport accessibility, socio-economic indicators) and a powerful geospatial visualisation engine. We’re thrilled to have him on board and look forward to the innovative insights he’ll contribute to our team! 

We want to give a shout out to everyone who applied for the internship - we were so blown away by the quality and number of applications! Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to apply. With the amount of skill and passion in this area, we’re feeling enormously positive about the future of housing in Aotearoa New Zealand.