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
For the Fall 2025 semester: I currently do not have any openings for
new graduate nor undergraduate RAs.
Undergraduate Students
2025:
- Reem Kharfan: Developing students’ statistical literacy habits of
mind
- Madeline Hunt and Samin Hemani: The relationship between students’
tolerance of uncertainty and statistics’ understanding
- Aman Ravishankar: Debate activities to promote students’ critical
thinking in statistics
- Mia Petrie and Madeline Hunt: Building a Modern Assessment for
Statistical Literacy.
- Samhita Periyanayaham: A culture-specific therapy program for
individuals with anxiety disorders in south India
- Alexandra Stoica: Word perception of personality disorder diagnostic
criteria
- Ella Hiles: Studying the impact of the TikTok ban on Gen Z’s social
and mental health
2024:
- Priyadharshini Sriramlatha and Aparajita Vemuri: The influence of
personality on learning statistics.
- Bhuvan Kala, Julianna Drew, and Sanjana Gongati: Harnessing AI to
develop students’ statistical thinking.
- Daniel Hogan: Mind wandering when learning statistics.
2023:
- Shubh Goyal: Individual differences in human 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.
2024:
- Maisha Ahasan: The impact of teacher-student racial identity
congruence on students’ sense of belonging.