The UMBC Data Science Scholars, are funded by the NSF grant (Award# 1915714 Undergraduate Data Science Education at Scale partnership between UC Berkeley, UMBC, and Mills College). The students on this project work on thematic areas from related NSF projects including the NSF iHARP project and NSF information augmentation project.
These students serve as peer mentors to foundational data science students and are also part of a student cohort at the Center for Women in Technology as CWIT Affiliates and the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3).
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Program led by: Dr. Vandana Janeja (Information Systems Department and MData lab)
Center Partnerships: Dr. Carolyn Seaman, Director CWIT; , Ms. Morgan Lovell, CWIT
Current and past mentoring partners: Dr. Eric Stokan (Director CS3; POLI), Dr. Karen Chen (IS), Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi (GES), Dr. Brian Soller (Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health), Dr. Christine Mallinson (LLC), Dr. Sudip Chakraborty (iHARP), Dr. Bayu Tama (iHARP), Dr. Anita Komlodi (IS and IRC), Lee Boot (IRC).
Spring 2026
Hi my name is Henry Sonti, I am a senior majoring Political Science with a minor in sociology. I love research across a number of different disciplines and fields of study, and I am looking forward to continuing that passion for research with Dr. Christine Mallinson as a research fellow.