Meet the Data CATS
Data CATS assists students, faculty, staff, and community members with data analytics work.
Kerem Atas
Kerem is a third-year Computer Science and Data Science student, interested in the interdisciplinary applications of data science tools and methods. He has experience in data visualization and web development, along with familiarity in database systems and statistics. He is proficient in Python, JavaScript, and SQL.
Mohamed Mostafa
Mohamed specializes in Computer Science and Economics, specifically for exploratory data analysis and machine learning. He is most proficient in Python and R with sufficient experience in Excel and SQL.
Jack Schwanewede
Jack is a Senior Cognitive Science major with a minor in Data Science. He has taken classes from several departments, such as Computer Science, Psychology, Data Science and Sociology. He has programming experience in Python, Java, JavaScript, and data/statistics experience with R, Stata, and SQL. Jack is familiar with deep learning models and data scraping methods, and has created programs in Virtual Reality using Unity and C#.
Jordan Whitehouse
Jordan is a Senior doing the CIS major in Data Science. She transferred into Davidson Fall 2024. She has experience with Python, R, Java & SQL. Jordan is also an Embedded Tutor for CSC110: Data Science in Society and DAT153: Database Programming.
Hakan Yavuzkara
Hakan is a Sophomore with a double major in Physics and Computer Science. He has experience with Java, Python, PyTorch, Pandas, Mathematica, Git, and Linux. He uses Wolfram Mathematica very often, and is a Wolfram Student Ambassador and a Wolfram AIɫɫ featured contributor. He has multiple statistics and data-based projects with Mathematica.
Patrick Grimes
Bio coming soon!
Alp Niksarli
(returning Spring 2026) Alp has experience with full stack web development and data mining using frameworks like Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, and Selenium. He also has experience analyzing data with Pandas dataframes or Matplotlib visuals, as well as some background in machine learning using TensorFlow and Keras APIs. He knows programming languages such as C++, Java and Javascript.