The Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Kate Bagley to the position of Technical Communication Coordinator. For the past 3 years, Kate has assisted with the Institute’s rigorous summer communication training workshop as well as provided feedback on the students’ resumes and profiles. In addition to her work here, Continue reading “Bagley Appointed to Communications Staff”
The Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of Joe Burke to the position of Professional Development Coach/Counselor. Most recently, Joe completed a post-masters fellowship at the North Carolina State University Counseling Center, Continue reading “Burke Appointed to Coaching Staff”
On November 30th, Hunt Library’s Teaching and Visualization Lab will host a talk by Dr. Healey on the area of deep learning, with a specific focus on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a class of deep neural network often used for image analysis. Continue reading “Deep Neural Networks”
Graduates in the Master of Science in Analytics posted NC State’s highest average salaries upon graduation last May, in a ranking of academic units across campus compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning. In the University’s first Future Plans Survey for Graduate Students, the Institute’s students ranked at the top among the nine colleges with an average reported salary of $101,454 (based on 110 students and a 99% response rate). This compares to an average reported salary of $69,067 for all masters Continue reading “Grads Post University’s Highest Salaries”
Twenty-three student teams in the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) began meeting with their sponsors up and down the east coast from Massachusetts to Florida and into the Midwest. The teams spoke with executives to review business objectives and familiarize themselves with the sponsor organization. The Class of 2019 brings the total number of practicum projects to 180 with 120 sponsors since the Institute’s Continue reading “Practicum Team Kick-Off Meetings”
Congratulations to the Institute’s Andrea Villanes, who received top honors for best presentation at the 2018 ACM Tapia Conference doctoral consortium in Orlando, Florida. Andrea’s presentation, Epidemiological Disease Surveillance Using Public Media Text Mining, is the focus of her dissertation research as a Ph.D. candidate Continue reading “Villanes Receives Conference Award”
The Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Aric LaBarr as Teaching Associate Professor. Previously, Dr. LaBarr was Director and Senior Scientist at Elder Research, and was for several years earlier a member of the Institute’s faculty teaching classes in statistics, mathematics, and operations research. Dr. LaBarr, who holds degrees in economics and statistics from NC State, specializes in predictive modeling, advanced analytics, forecasting, and risk management. Continue reading “LaBarr Appointed Associate Professor”
The Institute is delighted to announce our practicum sponsors for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2019. Student teams are tasked with projects from 24 sponsoring organizations. Among sponsors new this year are an impressive international line-up of major financial institutions, including Charlotte-based Bank of America, Zurich-based Credit Suisse, and Montreal-based RBC Royal Bank, as well as the biotech company, bioMérieux, based in Marcy-l’Étoile, France. Fifteen of the 24 sponsors are returning Continue reading “Practicum Sponsors Announced”
The Southern Regional Council of Statistics (SRCoS) business meeting in 2018 will take place on October 5th and 6th at the Institute for Advanced Analytics on the Centennial Campus at North Carolina State University. The meeting is being organized with the help of Dr. Susan Simmons, a professor at the Institute, who serves on the Council’s leadership team.
The SRCoS is composed of over 40 member institutions across the southern states. Its mission is to promote the improvement of post-secondary education in statistical science, assist in the development Continue reading “Institute to Host SRCoS”
The Master of Science in Analytics Class of 2019—the Institute’s 12th cohort—is off and running in the summer sprint of its 10-month journey. The class is comprised of 114 students selected from a pool of 1,113 applicants, representing 17 countries of origin and 18 states stretching from Massachusetts to California. With an acceptance rate of just 14%, the Class of 2019 is the fifth consecutive cohort to meet such a highly selective criteria for admission. Additional demographic details of the Class of 2019 are provided in the newly released Admissions Report.
The employment report for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2018 is now available. The Class of 2018, which achieved a placement rate of 95% by graduation, recorded the highest average base salary in the history of the MSA program: $98,200 (up from $95,100 for the Class of 2017). The median base salary for the class was $95,000; the median for students with prior work experience was $105,000. The ROI payback period is estimated to be 20 months on average. Continue reading “2018 Employment Report”
Friends and family members gathered under a sunny sky today for the Institute’s commencement ceremony honoring 111 students in the Class of 2018. It was a joyful occasion and there was a great deal to celebrate. The Class of 2018 was one of the most sought-after by employers in the Institute’s decade-long history. Students averaged three job offers and garnered record-level base salaries just shy of $100,000. Continue reading “11th Annual Commencement”
Congratulations to the Institute’s intramural soccer team, which took home all three championships—fall, winter, and spring—during the 2017-18 season! It’s a first for MSA students, who have a long tradition of fielding winning intramural teams (in basketball, as well). The spring soccer championship came in overtime after a well fought contest with a worthy opponent. The tie was ultimately broken in dramatic fashion on the last kick by the team goalie, Daniel Li. Continue reading “Intramural soccer champs, again!”
Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) students Daniel Li, Veer Gupta, Idrees Hussain, Emily Hadley, and Matias Avila were among the 9 finalist teams in a field of over 80 teams at the ASA DataFest 2018 hosted at Duke University. The event was organized by the Department of Statistical Science at Duke and co-hosted by the Departments of Statistics and Operations Research at UNC Chapel Hill and the Dpeartment of Statistics at NC State. Continue reading
NC State is good at basketball, but it’s great at analytics! In the Institute’s version of “March Madness” it’s our Master of Science in Analytics students who come out big winners in the job placement tournament that culminates in March. The Class of 2018 is on a record-setting pace to become our eleventh consecutive cohort to top 90-percent employment by graduation, with 85-percent of the students already Continue reading “March Madness 2018”