Team Information
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Established: 1877
Enrollment: 4,763
Mascots: Wavee Dave
Jackson State University is a first time competitor in the Winter Classic. Founded in 1877, it is a public HBCU with 47 undergraduate and 50 graduate programs serving 4,763 students. Their cluster competition team is on the small side with only three students, a senior and two juniors.
As a new team, they’re an unknown quantity, but the school offers a full slate of computer science courses – including Parallel Processing, Compiler Construction, and Advanced Computer Architecture, so the students will have some useful background for the competition.
2024 JSU Team Roster:
- Mikayla Chandler
- Miah Robinson
- Mackenzie Blackwell
- Jaylon Nelson
- Vahnroy Hosear
- Auiyhna Scott
Faculty Advisor/Coach:
- Dr. Jacqueline Jackson
2023 Jackson State University
From left to right: Yizhe Wang, Mikayla Chandler, Miah Robinson, Coach Sungbum Hong
"Mikayla Chandler- I am a Senior Computer Science student focused on the extensive research of Computer Technology. My main areas of interest are Cybersecurity, Software Development, Scientific Computing, and Theory of Computation."
"Miah Robinson - I am a Computer Science junior and doing research in Computational Epidemiology. My interest lies with Data Science, Robotics, and Computational Research."
"Yizhe Wang- Hello, I’m a sophomore majoring in Computer Engineering from Jackson State University. Currently I’m a research assistant in the field of embedded systems. With experiences in software development and web programming, I believe that high performance computing can change the future of data-driven technologies."