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2025 MADS Immersion
Saturday March 15, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Join us for a special panel featuring Section Instructors (SIs) from the MADS program as they share their career journeys, experiences in data science, and perspectives on teaching. Gain valuable insights for maximizing your course experience, get to know your instructors beyond the classroom, and hear firsthand about their experiences in MADS. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, be inspired, and learn from the combined expertise of our teaching team. 
Speakers
avatar for Rei Sanchez-Arias

Rei Sanchez-Arias

MADS Faculty Director, UNC School of Data Science and Society, Teaching Assistant Professor
Rei Sanchez-Arias joins the School of Data Science and Society (SDSS) at UNC-Chapel Hill as a teaching faculty and faculty director for the Master of Applied Data Science (MADS) program. He was most recently an associate professor of data science and assistant chair in the department... Read More →
avatar for Donna Dueker

Donna Dueker

MADS Section Instructor
Donna Dueker is a seasoned college instructor with experience in online and in-person instruction. In her 10 plus years of teaching, she has worked with a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate students. Outside of the classroom, she mentors graduate students, provides research... Read More →
avatar for Grant Glass

Grant Glass

MADS Section Instructor, NetApp, Data Scientist
Grant Glass, Ph.D., is a data scientist at NetApp and an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. With expertise in Responsible AI, natural language processing, and data ethics, he leads initiatives at the intersection... Read More →
avatar for Michael Herron

Michael Herron

MADS Section Instructor, Premier Healthcare Alliance, Principal Data Scientist
Michael Herron currently teaches Programming Methods for Data Science. He is also a principal data scientist at Premier healthcare alliance, which is a hospital performance improvement company with one of the largest databases of clinical and operations data covering about half of... Read More →
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Adam Lee

MADS Section Instructor, NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, Research Informatics Specialist Lead
Adam Lee is a Research Informatics Specialist Lead at the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute at UNC Chapel Hill. With over a decade of experience in higher education and health informatics research, he currently teaches Advanced Databases for Data Science in the MADS... Read More →
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J Tanner Slagel

MADS Section Instructor, NASA Langley Research Center, Research Computer Scientist
Dr. Slagel is a member of the Safety Critical Avionics Systems branch where he applies formal methods to assure safety- and mission-critical systems of interest to NASA, particularly systems involving uncrewed aircraft systems. He has been the lead researcher for an effort called... Read More →
Saturday March 15, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Sunflower Room, The Friday Center 100 Friday Center Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27517

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