Faculty

Dr. Mana Azarm is an Assistant Professor of Analytics and Information Systems at the University of San Francisco, where she bridges the worlds of scalable data management and AI safety research. With over a decade of industry experience building scalable data infrastructure at organizations ranging from Silicon Valley unicorns like DoorDash to government agencies, she brings a unique perspective to the challenges of developing and deploying AI systems safely.

Dr. Azarm's current research...

Associate Professor Kourosh Dadgar’s educational and professional background is diverse and interdisciplinary. His training and practice are in industrial product design and manage information systems (MIS) with the flavor of software engineering. His perspective in teaching and research is human-centric, participatory, and value-sensitive. 

His teaching philosophy is: explore, think, do, and learn. His classes are organically designed and include interactive and participatory business cases...

Professor Lacy brings over 30 years of industry experience in data and information management to his role as the Faculty Lead for the Business Analytics Major at the University of San Francisco’s School of Management. Professor Lacy is an expert and thought leader dedicated to bridging the gap between industry trends and academic excellence. His work prepares the next generation of business leaders by equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in business analytics...

Vijay Mehrotra is a Professor of Business Analytics at the USF, where he leads USF’s MBA Customer Success Management (the first such academic program in the world). He also directs the Business Analytics curriculum within USF's MBA program and teaches courses in Business Analytics, Predictive Modeling, and Data Mining.  Prior to becoming a professor, Vijay spent more than a decade working full-time in Silicon Valley as an analytics consultant, entrepreneur, and executive.  Since 2010, his column...

Jay Ashford has been working as a project/program manager, business analyst and process analyst in a variety of consulting roles over the past fifteen years, for clients across government, biotech, healthcare, financial services, and information technology industries. He holds several industry certifications, and has served on the boards of the local chapters of the Project Management Institute and the International Institute of Business Analysis, including terms as president of both chapters...

Professor Burd has worked in the medical device industry for the last 16 years, leading software engineering and data science teams. He's developed automated robotic surgery and diagnostic systems, and created machine learning models for computer vision and real-time analytics. 

Professor Burd brings scenarios and examples from industry into the classroom, and applies a mix of theory and hands-on learning to solve real-world problems.

Edward Kreutzer has been working in the field of information and technology for the entirety of his career.  His focus has been within the specialties of data architecture, database systems, data management and governance, data warehousing, data systems development, business intelligence, data mining, data science, and artificial intelligence.

His professional engagements have been within such industries as telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, education, nonprofit, entertainment...

Steven Lopez is an Information Technology Specialist with over 20 years of experience in providing consulting leadership roles for San Francisco Bay Area organizations.

Lopez holds a doctorate in Organization and Leadership from USF, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. He has several years of post-graduate work in the area of Management and Organizational Development at the Institute of Industrial Relations at UCLA.

Prior to the UCLA MBA experience, Lopez worked in a...

Professor Jonathan Reichental is a multiple-award-winning technology and business leader whose career has spanned both the private and public sectors. He’s been a senior software engineering manager, a director of technology innovation, and has served as chief information officer at both O’Reilly Media and the City of Palo Alto, California. He also creates online education for LinkedIn Learning and has published six books on technology-related topics.

Paul Lorton Jr, a retired professor of Information Systems and Technology, is a highly regarded visionary educator with a truly dynamic range of research interests. These include the use of computers in instruction, industrial changes, the history of commerce, open funding of the opera, and implications of support for the performing arts.

Having earned both his PhD and MA in Education Psychology, Professor Lorton fuses his understanding of learning systems with his extensive work in...