Associate Professor
"Students will learn to address questions such as, ‘What methods do you use with what sorts of data and problems? How do the methods work? What are their requirements, their strengths, their weaknesses? How do you assess their performance?’"
Degrees Held:
Career Highlights:
I won the LCOB Best Research Paper Award twice
Which online degree program(s) do you teach?
Which classes do you teach online?
ISM 6136: Big Data Analytics and Data Mining
What do you want your students to learn in these courses? What's the takeaway?
Students will learn to address questions such as, “What methods do you use with what sorts of data and problems? How do the methods work? What are their requirements, their strengths, their weaknesses? How do you assess their performance?” After completing this course, students will be able to develop data mining models that address business problems and aid decision-making.
What advice would you give to your online students?
Difficulty is a crucial part of learning. You should view failure as a sign of effort and as a turn in the road rather than as a measure of inability and the end of the road. Expert performance requires thousands of hours of dedicated practice until conscious incompetence becomes unconscious competence.
What's the value of an MBA for today's professionals?
Career advancement
