Team Members

Katerina Sergi is an educational psychologist with the goal to transform quantitative and qualitative data into visual insights so that researchers, educators, and communities make… Read More »Katerina Sergi, PhD

Mohammad Marufuzzaman (Maruf), Ph.D., received his Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) from Mississippi State University (MSU) in 2014. He is currently an Associate… Read More »Mohammad Marufuzzaman, PhD

Daniel Shawl serves as a project coordinator at Mississippi State University’s Social Science Research Center. He began working at the SSRC in the fall of… Read More »Daniel Shawl

Lauren Etheredge is a Research Associate at Mississippi State University’s Social Science Research Center. She received her B.A. in Sociology and her B.S. in Psychology… Read More »Lauren E. Etheredge

Sierra Nelson is a Research Associate at the Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center and MSU’s High Performance Computing Center (HPC2). She is also… Read More »Sierra Nelson, M.S.

Chris Lightsey joined CCI in 2016 as a Research Engineer. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Mississippi State University. Chris has been… Read More »Chris Lightsey

Clay Hardwick is program manager of the Center for Cyber Innovation (CCI) Open-Source Intelligence Lab (OSIL) at Mississippi State University (MSU), where he researches the… Read More »Clay Hardwick

Anna Gjika, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY New Paltz, where she teaches courses in criminology and also serves as Director of the… Read More »Anna Gjika, PhD

Terri N. Hernandez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, teaches public relations courses in the Department of Communication at Mississippi State University. Her research examines inter/intragroup relations, consumer… Read More »Terri Hernandez, PhD

MacKenzie Paul is an Undergraduate Research Assistant working for the Social Science Research Center. In addition to her work in the DS3 lab, MacKenzie is… Read More »MacKenzie Paul