The Institute hosted a delegation of students in the Business/Economics+Data Analytics program in the School of Economics and Business at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. The week-long program involved faculty lectures and hands-on exercises, as well as talks about graduate education in the U.S. and preparing for employment in the data science profession.
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The Institute’s founding director, Dr. Michael Rappa, delivered the keynote speech at the 2023 CDAO Circle Executive Summit on Democratizing AI in Charlotte, where he was honored with the organization’s AI Influencers award. Industry partnerships have played a crucial role in cultivating future data science leaders at the Institute.
Congratulations to Class of ’24 student Eason Warren on his successful completion of a marathon run challenge to raise funds for the Beau’s Buddies Cancer Fund of Greenville, North Carolina. Eason raised over $4,000 with the help of many fellow students and staff members of the Institute for Advanced Analytics by completing his first marathon (16 laps around campus), 26 miles under 6 hours, with running companions on each lap. A crowd of runners joined Eason for the final celebratory lap (in the dark)! Congratulations to everyone for the amazing team effort and the generous donations to a charitable cause.
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The Institute’s students participating in the Carolina Data Challenge — a weekend-long hackathon that brings together hundreds of participants from across the region — have brought home two jury prizes!
Continue reading “Carolina Data Challenge”Nineteen practicum teams in the Class of ’24 have begun the 8-month journey to successfully apply their analytical skills and deliver data-driven insights to sponsoring organizations. Teams traveled around the region meeting with sponsors to discuss objectives.
Dr. Christopher Healey and the Institute’s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, were named once again to the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Magazine global list of Academic Data Leaders in 2023, among fewer than 100 individuals named worldwide.
Continue reading “Faculty Named Data Leaders”The Institute is delighted to announce its practicum sponsors for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2024. Student teams are tasked with projects from 18 sponsoring organizations. Once again this year the Institute welcomes an impressive line-up of new and returning sponsors to work with our students over the next 8 months, including our first projects with the Air Force Safety Center, Antares Audio Technologies, Exovera, Hitachi Energy, Skin Laundry, Wells Fargo, the NC Department of Health and Human Services, and the US Department of Education.
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April Wilson has been promoted to Associate Director, succeeding Kathy Green, who retires this month. Since joining in December 2012 as the Institute’s first full-time career services professional, April has been instrumental in launching the data science careers of over 1,200 graduates. With two decades of human resource experience in higher education and industry, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her new role.
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Dr. Aric LaBarr will speak on the subject of detecting changes over time with Bayesian Change Point Analysis at Machine Learning Week 2024, part of the Predictive Analytics World conference series, to be held in Las Vegas.
The Institute’s Dr.Andrea Villanes will travel to Peru to speak with students and faculty of Computer Engineering at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) about epidemiological surveillance using public media text mining.
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