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Analytics Faculty

Tel:(650) 353-6949
mfdixon@usfca.edu

Matthew Dixon

Adjunct Professor, Graduate Program in Analytics

Matthew teaches computational analytics I and is also a senior quantitative analyst at Thomson Reuters in San Francisco. Matthew's research interests are in the areas of predictive analytics and statistical computing and has consulted for a number of clients in the finance industry. He was a Krener Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC Davis and has held postdoctoral research appointments with the Department of Computer Science at UC Davis and with the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Matthew holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College, London.

Tel:(415) 422-4174
sjengle@cs.usfca.edu

Sophie Engle

Assistant Professor

Professor Engle received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Davis in 2010, and her B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2002. Her research focus is on computer security, including topics such as vulnerability analysis, insider threat, and electronic voting. Her research interests also include topics such as data visualization and computer science education.

Tel:
tmfitch@usfca.edu

Todd Fitch

Assistant Professor

Todd is an assistant professor and the graduate practicum director for the analytics program. He is also a lecturer in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He has worked at many Silicon Valley high-tech companies in various capacities. He has 20+ years experience in the software industry in telecommunications, medical, financial software, and analytics. His experience includes performance engineering, tools development, product development, product management, operations, quality assurance, process engineering, and test automation. Todd holds 20 U.S. patents across a variety of disciplines. He is a Shodan (first-degree black belt) in Shotokan and Ryobu-kai karate and is an assistant instructor at a local dojo.Todd graduated from San Jose State University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He has MBA's from UC Berkeley and Columbia University which he earned through the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program.

Tel:(415) 422-6810
jhamrick@usfca.edu

Jeff Hamrick

Assistant Professor, Finance and Analytics

Jeff is a term assistant professor supporting both the Master of Science in Analytics and Master of Science in Financial Analysis programs. He is a CFA charterholder and a chartered Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and has experience in hedge fund management and consulting for both financial services and software engineering firms. Jeff's interests in "big data" stem mostly from his interests in natural language processing, market microstructure (e.g., models of intraday asset prices), and sabermetrics (i.e., the use of statistical and computational methodologies to study baseball). He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Boston University in 2009, with concentrations in nonparametric statistics and mathematical finance.

Tel:
yinterian@usfca.edu

Yannet Interian

Adjunct Professor

Yannet’s research interests are in the area of data mining and applied statistics using large-scale datasets, as they apply to problems in advertising, viral media and on-line social networks. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Havana, Cuba. She has been working at Google for five years as a Data Scientist, currently at Google Plus and previously at Google TV Ads and YouTube. In her spare time, Yannet is an amateur woodworker.

Tel:x5960
dclatterman@usfca.edu

David Latterman

Lecturer

David Latterman is a Public Research Associate of the McCarthy Center. He also teaches political campaigning and quantitative political research.

Tel:(415) 422-5707
parrt@cs.usfca.edu

Terence Parr

Associate Professor

Terence is the graduate program director for the analytics and computer science programs and is also the creator of the ANTLR parser generator. He herded programmers and implemented the large jGuru developers web site, during which time he developed and refined the StringTemplate engine. Terence has consulted for and held various technical positions at companies such as IBM, Lockheed Missiles and Space, NeXT, and Renault Automation. Terence was an expert witness for Google in the Oracle v Google Android lawsuit. His passion is writing software.

Tel:
xqi4@usfca.edu

Sharon Qi

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Qi worked for IBM for nine years with rich experiences in product/project management. Her accomplishments included the successful launch of new initiations, release of new products, and acceptance of innovative patent filing awards. Prior to her journey at IBM, Dr. Qi was educational researcher at SRI International and program director/faculty at a CA-state university. Dr. Qi co-founded a start-up with focus on educational technology development and services. Currently, Dr. Qi enjoys both educational technology program management and teaching in academic environments.

Tel:415-422-6637
duminsky@usfca.edu

David Uminsky

Assistant Professor

Assistant prof. of mathematics.  My research interests include computational and theoretical fluid dynamics, dynamical systems, non-local partial differential equations, mathematical modeling, mathematical biology, mathematical physics and complex dynamics.  Come to office hours, and stay for Math Tea, on Wednesday afternoons!  Also, check out my new web page: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~duminsky/