The Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence program's industry-ready curriculum is guided by an Advisory Board of distinguished leaders across multiple disciplinary areas that ensure students in the program receive the skills and opportunities needed to be successful after graduation.
Members
Financial Services
- Sandeep Sacheti, VP Customer Insights & Operational Excellence, Wolters Kluwer 
- Siddhartha Dalal, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University 
- Venu Guntupalli, Senior Director Analytics, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service 
- Wayne Huang, Head of Data Science, Pacific Life 
Industry/Services
- Anne Robinson, Chief Strategy Officer, Kinaxis 
- Mohammad Nikouei, Principal Data Scientist, Dun & Bradstreet 
- Tom Kielty, Director, President and CEO, Connectivity 
- Ram Iyer, Managing Director, Financial Services, Ernst & Young 
- Portia Crow, Chief Data Strategist, Accenture Federal Services, Arlington, VA 
- Patricia Saporito, CEO, Digital Business Creations 
IT/Software Services
- Brad Molzen, Worldwide Technical Sales Leader - DS & AI, IBM 
- Catherine Truxillo, Director, Analytical Education in the Education Division, SAS 
- Venkat Mukkamala, Director, Corporate Reporting and Analytics Google, Inc. NY 
- Winter Mason, Data Scientist, Meta 
Life Sciences
- Demissie Alemayehu, VP, Head Statistical Research and Data Science, Pfizer 
- Marcia Levenstein, Senior Advisor. Vivli 
- Sanjiv Koshal, Head of Data Engineering and Operations, Johnson & Johnson 
Media/Communications
- Andreas Damianou, Chief, UN Webcast, News and Media Division, United Nations 
- Matthew Don, Chief Innovation Officer, Doremus 
Telecommunications
- Forough Ghahramani, Associate VP for Research, Innovation, Sponsored Programs, NJ EDGE 
- Richard Stemper, Associate Director of Data Warehousing and BI, Verizon Wireless 
Academic
- Chris Asakiewicz, Professor, Program Director, BI&A Program 
- Ted Stohr, Professor, BI&A Program, Chair