Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, 2021 – present
• Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, 2018 – 2021
• Assistant Professor, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2016 – 2018
• Senior Analyst, Equifax Inc., Alpharetta, GA, 2015 – 2016
• Business Solutions Developer, Equifax Inc., Alpharetta, GA, 2014 – 2015
• Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, 2012 – 2014
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, 2011 – 2012

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 2011
• M.S. in Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 2010
• M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Ocean University of China, 2006
• B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Ocean University of China, 2003

Mathematics Genealogy

• My academic genealogy can be found at the Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP).

Awards

• KSU College of Science and Mathematics Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award, 2020

Professional Certification & Membership

• SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9
• SAS DS2 Programming Essentials with Hadoop
• Applied Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner
• Advanced Predictive Modeling Using SAS Enterprise Miner 13.1
• SAS Enterprise Miner High-Performance Data Mining Nodes
• Cloudera Custom Training for Apache Hadoop
• Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)