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). Email me if you are interested in applying for the position.

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
• Max Fang: The relationship between students’ self-efficacy and their learning

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