Professor Namrata Vaswani
CyMath Director
Namrata Vaswani is a professor of electrical computer engineering with research expertise in statistical machine learning and signal processing. With help from Education colleagues, she has been running the CyMath program to provide school-year-long weekly tutoring in Math to elementary school students since the Fall of 2020 when schools closed down.
Anita Rollins
Students and Parents Support
Anita Rollins has been an active member of the Ames community for over 30 years. Rollins retired from Iowa State University after nearly 25 years with Science Bound, an Iowa State University program that successfully increased the number of youth from racially and ethnically marginalized populations who earned degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. A former school board member, Rollins remains active in the community. She currently serves on the Ames City Council. She is also secretary of the Ames Branch of the NAACP, Finance Chair at Friendship Baptist Church, and on the board of Northwest Bank. She is passionate about equity issues, having earned a degree in education from ISU as well as a certificate in social justice.
Professor Heather Bolles
Tutor Support & Training
Heather Bolles is a Teaching Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University
Yamille X. Pérez (she/her/ella)
Assistant Director for Engineering Outreach and Talent Development
Yamille X. Pérez is a civil engineering alumni from Iowa State, who now works to develop K-12 outreach programs for the College of Engineering. Her interests include broadening the pipeline of K-12 youth into STEM programs and the intersection with diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yamille is also working on her M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration with a Social Justice Certificate at ISU.
Jorge Yass
Administrative assistant
Jorge is an international graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction and a co-major in Computer Engineering. He is interested in cybersecurity literacy, education, and awareness.