Leadership Team
Dr. Carolyn Seaman
Director, CWIT, UMBC
Dr. Eric Stokan
Director, CS3, UMBC
Dr. Victoria Coles
Professor, UMCES
Current Mentors
Data Scholars are matched with faculty mentors whose work closely aligns with the scholars’ areas of interest. These are our current mentors working with the Spring 2026 scholars.
Dr. Karen Chen
Department of Information Systems, UMBC
Zehra Zaidi
Department of Information Systems, UMBC
Dr. Neha Singh
Department of Information Systems, UMBC
Dr. Josephine Namayanja
iHARP, UMBC
Dr. Sudip Chakraborty
iHARP, UMBC
Dr. Ratnaksha Lele
iHARP, UMBC
Dr. Christine Mallinson
Language, Literacy & Culture Program, UMBC
Dr. Vyacheslav Lyubchich
UMCES
Dr. Eric Schott
UMCES
Past Mentors
Dr. Anita Komlodi
Department of Information Systems, UMBC
Dr. Brian Soller
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, UMBC
Dr. Eric Stokan
Department of Political Science, UMBC
Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi
Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Lee Boot
Department of Visual Arts, UMBC
Dr. Bayu Adhi Tama
iHARP, UMBC
Staff
Achala Denagamage
Program Coordinator, DS & AI, UMBC
Jor’Danna Davis
Assistant Director, CWIT, UMBC
Amy K. Wolf
Program Coordinator, CS3, UMBC
Nikki Monczewski
Communications and Operations Manager, iHARP, UMBC