Faculty, Staff, and Student Interns
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Staff
Director
Sandy earned her Master's degree at Miami in statistics after graduating with a Bachelor's from Mount St. Joseph University in mathematics and business. She worked in industry for fifteen years, most recently as the Vice President of Insights at 84.51° before joining CADS in April 2019. She has vast experience in driving customer value through industry-leading data science techniques.
Assistant Director
Amy joined CADS in February 2020. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Towson University (Maryland) and a Master’s degree in Education from Canisius College (New York). She spent over ten years in education, with the past two and a half years at Butler County Educational Service Center as the Data & Monitoring Coordinator. She is experienced in interpreting and using data to make sound decisions as well as leading analytics projects.
Associate Director of Analytics
Kevin graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics as well Master's degree in Biostatistics from Emory University (Georgia). Before joining CADS in October 2020, Kevin was a Senior Statistician at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. He brings with him strong industry knowledge as well as experience in developing course curriculum.
Administrative Assistant
Steering Committee
Professor and Chair
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Dr. Eric Bachmann is the Chair for the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. His current research focuses on human factors and training in virtual environments (VE), enabling immersed VE users to explore virtual worlds of unlimited size, and locomotion interfaces for VE. He has also worked on establishing the HIVE (huge immersive virtual environment), a state-of-the-art VE facility at Miami.
University Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Statistics
Dr. John Bailer is the Chair of the Department of Statistics. As a frequent instructor of data practicum classes, he mentors students on research projects for clients in business, industry, government and academia. His research interest include addressing risk estimation issues and, more generally, on the design and analysis of studies to evaluate factors impacting occupational and environmental health outcomes.
Van Andel Professor of Business Analytics
Information Systems and Analytics
Dr. Jones-Farmer teaches the business analytics practicum, predictive modeling, and regression analysis. Her research include developing statistical methods to solve real-world problems. Dr. Jones-Farmer has a passion for promoting the sound use of analytical methods in practice.
Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Advisor
Georgraphy
Dr. Jessica McCarty teaches on open source geospacial tools and mapping techniques. Her professional interests include using data mining, Earth observations, and GIS to better understand food security, land-use, air quality, and more.
Assistant Professor
Marketing
Dr. Peter Nguyen teaches market research. He has experience in research on leveraging consumergenerated content (social media and online review posts) to better understand consumer behavior in
the real world.
Professor and Chair
Accountancy
Dr. Andrew Reffett is currently researching judgment and decision making research in accounting with a focus on auditing and managerial settings. He teaches courses in audit, accounting control systems, and intermediate financial accounting.
Faculty
Farmer School of Business
Assistant Teaching Professor
Information Systems and Analytics
Assistant Professor
Information Systems and Analytics
Associate Professor
Information Systems and Analytics
College of Arts and Science
Associate Professor
Statistics

Instructor
Statistics
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Associate Professor
Statistics
Marketing Student Interns
Major: Sociology
Minor: Supply Chain Management
Class of 2021
Major: Computer Engineering
Class of 2022
Major: Dietetics and Statistics
Minor: Spanish
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Major: Journalism and Professional Writing
Class of 2023
Major: Marketing
Minor: Sports Management
Class of 2023