TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors

July 18, 2025

We are proud to announce the latest cohort of Data Science Student Ambassadors! This competitive scholarship program, established in 2022, provides Ph.D. students with the training and opportunity to develop outreach activities in AI, data science, and machine learning. Ambassadors help to introduce these subjects to their home departments and grow the data science community at Texas A&M.

These sixteen students will serve as representatives for TAMIDS and engage with students, faculty, and researchers through exciting educational opportunities to help them adopt innovative data science techniques.

Domain Data Science (DDS) Ambassadors Track

DDS ambassadors propose and conduct engagements to promote data science literacy within their departments

**Senior Ambassador**
Walid El Mansour – Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development

**Senior Ambassador**
Shihan Li – Department of Oceanography

Muhammad Sharjeel Ahmad Anjum – Department of Construction Science

Weishan Bai – Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning

Lokesh Kumar Sekar – Department of Petroleum Engineering

Wenjing Gong – Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning

Abhishek “Abhi” Hanchate – Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Garam Kim – Department of Psychological and Brain Science

Jinxu Li – Department of Communication & Journalism

Shuai Ma – Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, & Communications

Rajesh Neupane – Department of Animal Science

Generative AI (GAI) Ambassadors Track

GAI ambassadors conduct online drop-in sessions, guiding students, faculty, and researchers in formulating and developing AI-based approaches to address their problems.