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Data Science

Graduate faculty and staff

Faculty and staff for the master’s program in Applied Data Science.

Faculty

Faculty and staff.

Graduate program faculty and staff. Undergraduate students also work with faculty across mathematics, statistics and computer science.

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Gil Salu

Gil Salu

Director of the Master’s in Data Science
Teaches databases for data science, and distributed and cloud computing.

Twenty-five years in software. Fourteen of them at Charles River Development, the institutional trading and portfolio management platform acquired by State Street, and earlier in senior client technology and solutions roles at IBM. Advises Fortune 500 asset managers on technology adoption, AI integration, and cryptographic tools.

graduateDS@ncf.edu(941) 487-4525
Rohan Loveland

Rohan Loveland

Professor of Computer & Data Science
Teaches applied machine learning, and communications and applied domains in data science.

D.Phil. in Electrical Engineering, Oxford University; MBA, University of Texas at Austin. Worked on classified projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory, then served as CEO of a biomedical device startup that won FDA approval. Holds two patents.

graduateDS@ncf.edu(941) 487-4368HNS 207
Toby Wade

Toby Wade

Asst. Prof. of Data Science and Statistics
Teaches deep learning and AI.

Ph.D. in Statistics, London School of Economics. Twenty years across equities, cryptocurrencies, futures, and currencies at hedge funds, exchanges, and banks. Quoted in the Financial Times, Institutional Investor, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance.

graduateDS@ncf.edu(941) 487-4173HNS E152
Andrey Skripnikov

Andrey Skripnikov

Assoc. Prof. of Applied Statistics
Teaches applied statistics.

Ph.D. and M.S. in Statistics, University of Florida; BSc, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Postdoctoral associate and lecturer at the University of Houston. Researches high-dimensional data and time series, applied to gene expression, brain activity, and sports data.

graduateDS@ncf.edu(941) 487-4515Heiser E156
Tyrone Ryba

Tyrone Ryba

Assoc. Prof. of Bioinformatics
Teaches computational biology and the analysis of genomic data.

Ph.D., Florida State University; B.A., New College of Florida. A computational biologist working on epigenetic regulation and the biology of human disease, examining how large-scale domain regulation goes wrong in respiratory disorders and cancers.

graduateDS@ncf.edu(941) 487-4228Heiser Natural Sciences 102
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Angel Novikov

Adjunct Professor of Statistics
Teaches Applied Statistics I.

Ph.D., University of Florida. Chief AI Officer, Chief Data Officer, and Managing Director at Analytical Strategies Group. Twelve years at Citi, most recently Senior Vice President and Global Processing Risk Design Head in Operational Risk Management. Earlier at Fannie Mae, Navigant Consulting, and Deloitte & Touche.

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Melissa Elec

Program Coordinator
Runs the program office and is the first person most applicants talk to.

Admissions questions, visits, scheduling, and the practical business of getting a cohort from application to first day.

graduateDS@ncf.edu(941) 487-4175
Bernhard Klingenberg

Bernhard Klingenberg

Prof. of Statistics On leave
Teaches applied statistics and advanced statistical modeling. Not teaching in the program this year.

Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Florida; M.S., Graz University of Technology, Austria. Professor of Statistics at Williams College for more than a decade. Co-author of Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data.

graduateDS@ncf.edu(941) 487-4172Heiser E160