Team

1.0 Instructors

Anthony Whyte
position: Lecturer IV in Information, UMSI faculty
office: 5465 Leinweber Computer Science and Information Building (LCISB)
contact: arwhyte@umich.edu
pronoun preference: he/him/his

Chris Teplovs
position: Lecturer IV in Information, UMSI faculty
office: 4566 Leinweber Building, 2200 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
2200 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
teplovs@umich.edu

Steve Oney
position: Associate Professor of Information, UMSI faculty
office: 4552 Leinweber Building, 2200 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
contact: soney@umich.edu
pronoun preference: he/him/his

2.0 Graduate Student Instructors (GSI)

Sanzeed Anwar
program: Ph.D. in Information
interests: Recommender systems, Online platforms, Behavioral modeling
contact: sanzeed@umich.edu
pronoun preferences: he/him

Xingjian (Lance) Gu
program: Ph.D. in Information
interests: Critical AI literacy, computing education, learning sciences
contact: xjgu@umich.edu
pronoun preferences: he/him

Tong Lin
program: Ph.D. in Information
interests: Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Social Media
contact: tonglin@umich.edu
pronoun preferences: he/him

Benjamin Roger Litterer
program: Ph.D. in Information
interests: Computational Social Science, Communication and Media, Natural Language Processing, Political Science
contact: blitt@umich.edu pronoun preferences: he/him

Natasha Girish Mallappalla
program: Master of Science in Information (MSI)
interests: UX Research, UX Design, Enterprise UX
contact: natashg@umich.edu
pronoun preference: she/her

Eshang Shah
program: Masters of Science in Information (MSI)
interests: UX Research, Inclusive Design, Backend Development
contact: eshang@umich.edu
pronoun preference: he/him

3.0 Instructional Assistants

Amanpreet Bhogal
program: Master of Health Informatics
interests: Data Science, Healthcare Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
contact: abhogal@umich.edu
pronoun preference: she/her

Sruthi Chatrathi
program: Master of Science in Information (MSI)
interests: Data Science, Sports Data Analytics
contact: sruthic@umich.edu
pronoun preference: she/her

Jonathan Kang
program: Masters of Health Informatics
interests: Healthcare Data Analysis, Data Science, AI in Healthcare, Machine Learning
contact: hanulk@umich.edu \

Anlin Ma
program: Master of Science in Information (MSI)
interests: Full Stack Development, Machine Learning
contact: anlinma@umich.edu

Kelly Nguyen
program: Masters of Health Informatics
interests: Healthcare Data Analysis, Data Science, Project Management
contact: kellyngu@umich.edu
pronoun preference: she/her

Ishraq Rahman
program: Masters of Science in Information (MSI)
interests: Applied Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Analysis
contact: ishman@umich.edu
pronoun preference: he/him

Vaishnavi Venkataraghavan
program: Master of Science in Information (MSI)
interests: Applied Data Science, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Cloud Computing
contact: vaishven@umich.edu
pronoun preference: she/they

Nikki Yuan
program: Masters of Science in Information (MSI)
interests: Data Analysis, Data Science, A/B testing & experiment design
contact: nikkkii@umich.edu
pronoun preference: she/her

Jenna Youness
contact: jeyo@umich.edu \

4.0 Former teammates

Lead GSIs: Yash Kamat, Andrew Vande Guchte, Swathi Komarivelli, Yaoqi Liao, Angelica Wang, Derrick White, Yangtao ‘Max’ Zhang

GSIs: Ashley Beals, Anupama Bhatta, Yan Chen, Morgan Durow, Gabriel Grill, Amanda Hardy, Pei-Yao Hung, Dharani Krishnan Senthil Kumar, Nitanshi Mahajan, Abraham Mhaidli, Ihudiya Finda Ogburu, Jiayu Pan, Anmol Panda, Laura Petersen, Kiley Price, Bryan Romas, Rob Rumble, Rena Shen, Shrijesh Siwakoti, Memuna Tariq, Tasha Torchon, Mark Wu, Deahan Yu, Julia Zhang, Lei Zhang

IAs: Ashley Beals, Anupama Bhatta, Christine Carethers, Miranda Cooper, Emma Jane Gies, Josh Horowitz, Swathi Komarivelli, Thomas Krouse, Yaoqi Liao, Natasha Girish Mallappalla, Neha Nair, Sansitha Nandakamur, Manaswi Patil, Jiayu Pan, Eshang Shah, Karess Taylor, Angelica Wang, Jing Zhang