Meet 2026 RBSI Scholar, Mohamed Aljahmi, CUNY Queens College

Mohamed Aljahmi, CUNY Queens College

Mohamed Aljahmi is a rising senior and dean’s list scholar at Queens College, CUNY, where he is pursuing a double major in political science and sociology with minors in data analytics, legal studies, and honors in social sciences. His research interests center on computational social science and diaspora politics, with a particular focus on the political behavior of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities. Mohamed utilizes R, machine learning, and natural language processing to analyze racial identity and voting patterns, currently leveraging the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) for his senior honors thesis. Beyond his independent research, Mohamed served as a research assistant for Professor Peter Liberman, examining the erosion of checks and balances in dictatorships. On campus, he serves as a Senator in the Academic Senate and an embedded tutor. He has also contributed to historical research at the Museum of Chinese in America through the Bloomberg Arts Internship. Mohamed intends to pursue a Ph.D. in political science to become a university professor and contribute meaningful quantitative scholarship to the study of minority political representation.

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