Data Science Ambassadors Program

Nutritional Sciences

Mary Ahern holds a Master of Science in Nutrition and is a Registered Dietitian. She is currently a Nutritional Sciences Ph.D. student under the mentorship of Dr. Sridevi Krishnan. Her research focuses on understanding the dietary, biological, metabolic, and lifestyle differences in individuals with obesity and other chronic conditions. This, understandably, involves a lot of data.

College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture

Annalise Hummel, a Tulsa, Oklahoma native, is a student in the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). While pursuing two concurrent Master's degrees (Landscape Architecture and Real Estate Development), Annalise has fostered an increasing interest in planning and developing built environments that empirically demonstrate economic sustainability, environmental renewal, and social equity.

College of Information Science

Deepsana Shahi is a PhD student in the College of Information Science. My expertise lies at the intersection of physics, coding, and data analysis, which I use for my current research using machine learning applications to solve physics problems. I primarily program in Python, but I can also program in C++, Rust, and Mathematica. I believe in fostering interdisciplinary research through collaboration and hope to help foster that.

College of Nursing

Lee Taylor-Vaughan JD, MSN, APN, CCRN-CSC-CMC, PCCN, CEN, NRP, CFRN, LNC (he/him/his): Lee began his career in healthcare in 1995 in the ER. He has completed EMT (’97), Paramedic (’00), BS (’05), an MSN (’07) in Nursing from Rutgers University, a Juris Doctor from Concord Law School (’17), and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Data and Systems Science at the University of Arizona.

Chinese Linguistics

Yuwei Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Linguistics, specializing in Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. She also holds an M.S. in Data Science with a focus on NLP and Management Information Systems. Yuwei's research interests include natural language processing, corpus linguistics, and data-driven analysis. She has expertise in programming with R, Python, and SQL, and is passionate about leveraging these skills to uncover insights and drive innovation in linguistic research and data science.