Advising and Mentoring

Welcome to my Advising and Mentoring page! Below, you will find a list of former students and mentees I’ve worked with and some of the projects we worked on together.

Current Openings

Summer 2025: None

Fall 2025: 1 position for an hourly graduate RA with advanced python skills to support students related to my clustering project (see my research page for more).

Undergraduate Students

2025:

• Ella Hiles: Studying the impact of the TikTok ban on Gen Z’s social and mental health
  • Winner of the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium Award for Outstanding Oral Presentation
• Alexandra Stoica: Word perception of personality disorder diagnostic criteria
• Mia Petrie and Madeline Hunt: Students’ thinking about biases and challenges when interpreting news media data visualizations
  • For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/authenticliteracy/
• Madeline Hunt and Samin Hemani: The relationship between students’ tolerance of uncertainty and statistics understanding
  • For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/acceptuncertainty/
• Reem Kharfan: Developing students’ statistical literacy habits of mind
• Aman Ravishankar: Debate activities to promote students’ statistical thinking
• Samhita Periyanayaham: A culture-specific therapy program for individuals with anxiety disorders

2024:

• Priyadharshini Sriramlatha and Aparajita Vemuri: The relationship of personality characteristics with learning statistics
  • For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/acceptuncertainty/
• Bhuvan Kala, Julianna Drew, and Sanjana Gongati: Harnessing AI to develop students’ statistical thinking
  • For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/HarnessingAI/
• Daniel Hogan: Mind wandering when learning statistics

2023:

• Shubh Goyal: Individual differences in human clustering
  • For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/clustering/
• Vishnu Sadhu: Psychological factors associated with purchasing life insurance

2022:

• Maisie Simpson: Association between generational trauma and progressive dementia types

Graduate Students

2025:

• Laura Bandi: Latent change score modeling of students’ propensity to pursue statistics and data science
  • For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/HarnessingAI/
• Amos Jeng and Tiffany Reyes Denis: Harnessing AI to develop students’ statistical thinking
  • For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/HarnessingAI/

2024:

• Maisha Ahasan: The impact of teacher-student identity congruence on students’ sense of belonging