SDS Leadership Team

School Directors

Dongsong Zhang
Interim Executive Director; Belk Endowed Chair Professor
School of Data Science | Belk College of Business | Department of Computer Science
Joshua Hertel
Director
Colvard ​Building – Suite 1028 – Office 1028B

Advising Team

Program Directors

Abbey Thomas Fenwick
Sports Analytics Program Director; Associate Professor
Applied Physiology, Health, and Clinical Sciences
Yaorong Ge
Graduate Program Director; Professor
Health Informatics and Analytics
Mirsad Hadzikadic
Graduate Program Director; Complex Systems Institute Director; Professor
Data Science and Business Analytics
Shaoyu Li
Ph.D. Program Director; Associate Professor of Statistics
Mathematics and Statistics
Shannon Reid
Undergraduate Program Director for Curriculum; Associate Professor
Criminal Justice & Criminology
Marco Scipioni
Undergraduate Program Director for Admissions and Engagement; Teaching Associate Professor
School of Data Science
John Tobias
Sports Analytics Program Director; Lecturer
Sports Analytics
Jason Windett
Research Director; Public Policy Doctoral Program Associate Director; Professor
Political Science and Public Administration

Operations & Advising Team

Kyle Hairston
Business Service Coordinator
Colvard ​Building – Suite 1028 – Office 1028F
Lindsay Lennon
Communications and Events Manager
Colvard ​Building – Suite 1028 – Office 1028I