Staff

Dr. Yaorong Ge’s research focuses on imaging informatics, health informatics, and intelligent informatics systems development. He has participated in many research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, has co-founded and managed a health informatics software startup until its acquisition, and has successfully commercialized a number of novel technologies via patent licensing.

Laurence Kyle Hairston joined the School of Data Science in Fall 2023. He serves as the School’s Business Service Coordinator. He is responsible for the day-to-day business operations of the School. This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining and reconciling budgets, generating financial reports, and completing purchase orders.  He oversees the hiring of the […]

Joshua Hertel joined UNC Charlotte in 2011. He currently serves as the Director of the School of Data Science, overseeing day-to-day operations for both graduate and undergraduate academic programs as well as community and industry engagement with the School of Data Science. In his role, he supervises the School’s communications and advising teams. Joshua coordinates […]

Barbara Howard joined UNC Charlotte in 2015 as an Administrative Assistant in the Dean’s office of the Cato College of Education. She joined the School of Data Science (SDS) in December, 2019 as its Executive Assistant. In this role, she provides high-level administrative support to the Executive Director of SDS and the SDS team. This […]

Education: Ph.D. in Statistics and Quantitative Biology, Michigan State UniversityM.S. in Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Courses Taught: N/A Biography: Dr. Li is the Program Director for the new PhD Program at the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte, as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics […]

Carly Mahedy has been with UNC Charlotte since 2009 in various roles, leading up to her current position as the Director of Student Services at the School of Data Science (SDS). In her role, she oversees recruitment, admission, advising, enrollment, assessment, internship coordination, and special events for the graduate programs in Health Informatics & Analytics […]

Lindsay Mongillo joined UNC Charlotte in 2021 as the Communications and Events Manager for the School of Data Science. She is responsible for organizing weekly seminars with guest speakers from the data science industry and two large-scale annual conferences (the Analytics Frontiers Conference and the Women in Data Science Conference), each attracting approximately 400-500 attendees. […]

Education: Ph.D. in Management Systems, State University of New York at BuffaloM.S. in Management Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South KoreaB.S. in Management Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea Courses Taught: Business Intelligence and Analytics DSBA 6201, Advanced Business Analytics DSBA 6211 Biography:  Dr. Park is a Professor […]

Education: Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, IrvineM.S. in Justice, Law and Society, American UniversityB.S. in Criminal Justice, University of New Haven Courses Taught: DTSC 3601, 3602: Predictive Analytics Biography: Dr. Shannon Reid is the Undergraduate Program Director for the Curriculum in the School of Data Science (SDS). In this role, she […]

Deanna Rella is an experienced professional in higher education currently serving as the undergraduate academic advisor for the School of Data Science. With over twenty years of experience, Deanna is dedicated to guiding first-year and transfer students in the B.S. in Data Science and the Undergraduate Certificate in Sports Analytics programs. Her responsibilities include providing […]