Vryan Feliciano

Vryan (he/they) is a Staff Data Scientist at the Young Data Scientists League. He is a first-gen Filipino-American from South San Diego interested in making more equitable data science education for underserved, minoritized learners. Nowadays, his work bends towards science, technology, and society studies to interrogate the sociopolitical dimensions influencing data science and AI education in varying learning contexts. Vryan earned a M.S. in Education Data Science at Stanford University, and a B.S. in Clinical Psychology with minors in Computational Social Science and Education Studies from UC San Diego.

As YDSL's Staff Data Scientist, Vryan primarily focuses on research and evaluation. His projects include using mixed-methods to analyze large-scale educational datasets produced by YDSL programming. Vryan also supports the production and facilitation of teacher-facing learning resources for YDSL-led professional learning programming.