Rei Sanchez-Arias

Assistant Professor of Data Science

Florida Polytechnic University

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science and Business Analytics (DSBA) at Florida Polytechnic University (Florida Poly), where I also serve as the Assistant Chair of DSBA. Before joining Florida Poly, I served as the Program Director for the MS in Big Data Analytics in the School of Science at St Thomas University (STU) in Miami. I was also part of the Applied Mathematics Department at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) in Boston, and completed a postdoctoral researcher appointment for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in collaboration with a group at Stanford University. Research projects for the AHPCRC involved global optimization and parameter estimation, reduced-order modeling, and data analytics.

Interests

Data Mining and Machine Learning
Data Science Education
Operations Research and Numerical Optimization

Education

PhD in Computational Science

The University of Texas at El Paso
MS in Computational Science

The University of Texas at El Paso
BSc in Mathematics

Universidad del Valle (Colombia)

Teaching

Courses that I have taught or am currently teaching are listed.

Feel free to contact me if you would like information about any of them.

Graduate	Undergraduate
Fundamentals of Big Data Analytics	Differential Equations
Data Mining and Machine Learning	Operations Research
Statistical Methods	Intro to Data Science
Applied Machine Learning	Calculus I, II, III
Data Analytics Capstone	Discrete Mathematics
Data Visualization	Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory
Programming for Data Analytics	Data Science Directed Research
Scientific Computing	Business Intelligence
Quantitative Research Methods	Data Mining and Text Mining
Big Data Analytics Applications	Statistical Learning
Data Wrangling	Data Analytics Capstone