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Education: M.S. in Health Informatics and Analytics, UNC Charlotte Classes Taught: Introduction to Programming for Health Informatics HCIP 5376 Biography: Sydney Westfall is a Data Scientist at Premier, Inc. in Charlotte, NC, specializing in healthcare analytics. Sydney’s career began as a Certified Pharmacy Technician and includes research in immunology labs.  At Premier, Sydney develops statistical and machine […]

Education: Ph.D. in Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia TechM.S. in Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech Courses Taught: Modeling and Society DTSC 2301/2302 Biography: Damien Patrick Williams is an assistant professor in Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A Ph.D. in Science, Technology, and Society, from Virginia Tech in […]

Education: Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.), UNC CharlotteMaster of Project Management (M.P.M.), Western Carolina UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Pfeiffer UniversityB.A. in Economics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Courses Taught: Business Project Management DSBA 6207 Biography: Brad Williams, DBA, PMPTM teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses within the School of Data Science and the […]

Education: Ph.D. in Political Science, UNC Chapel Hill Courses Taught: Modeling and Society DTSC 2301/2302 Biography: Dr. Jason Windett’s research agenda focuses broadly on the area of representation in American politics with a focus on state politics, state courts, and gender and politics. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of […]

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of ArkansasM.S. in Statistics, University of Arkansas Courses Taught: Applied Machine Learning DSBA 6156 Biography: Dr. Depeng Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software & Information Systems and the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte. His research focuses on data mining and machine learning, specifically […]

Education: Ph.D. in Developmental Biology, Fudan University, ChinaM.S. in Cell Biology, Shandong University, China Courses Taught: N/A Biography: Dr. Yan has initiated and directed the Charlotte Biology and Biotechnology (CBB) Exchange Group co-sponsored by North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) and UNC Charlotte since 2017. He is also a Program Leader of the Genome Integrity and […]

Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Courses Taught: Big Data Analytics for Competitive Advantage DSBA 6100, Modern Data Science Systems DSBA 6345 Biography: Dr. Wlodek Zadrozny joined the faculty of UNC Charlotte from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. As a scientist at IBM Research, he contributed to a wide range of […]

Education: Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona Courses Taught: Big Data Analytics for Competitive Advantage DSBA 6100 as an Affiliate professor, Dept. of Computer Science Biography: Dr. Dongsong Zhang, the Executive Director and the former inaugural Director of Research for UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science (SDS), plays a […]

Education: Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignB.S. in Management Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China Courses Taught: Advanced Business Analytics DSBA 6211 Biography: Dr. Kexin Zhao’s current research focuses on electronic commerce, virtual communities, and e-business standardization. She is also an associate editor of Decision Support Systems and a member of both AIS […]

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Peking University, China Courses Taught: Business Intelligence and Analytics DSBA 6201 Biography: Dr. Lina Zhou’s research interests span the areas of social media analytics, deception detection, knowledge management, biomedical informatics, and intelligent mobile interface. She has published articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications […]