2025 MADS Immersion

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →