People

Grid List

Principals

Shannon Mischler
MQE Program Director and Advisor
Randall Walsh, Ph.D.
MQE Director and Professor of Economics

Faculty

Stefania Albanesi, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Claire Duquennois, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Andreas Ferrara, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
David Huffman, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics and Department Chair
Marily Nixon, J.D.
Professor of the Practice at Pitt Law
Luca Rigotti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics
Kevin Shaver, Ph.D.
Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor
Richard van Weelden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics
Alistair Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics

Students

Joshua Dixon
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Adam Duvall
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Jacob Humble
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Alyssa McHoes
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Tricia McMahon
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Natalee Morris
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Kayko Ohkawa
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Gayatri Pai
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Mason Putt
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Spencer T. Segal
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Max Thompson
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Charles Tyler
Student - May 2021 Graduation
Jiayi Zhang
Student - May 2021 Graduation

Advisory Board

Pamela Bonifay Peele, Ph.D.
Chief Analytics Officer, UPMC Insurance Services & UPMC Enterprises
Bruce Childers, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean in the School of Computing and Information and Special Assistant to Provost for Data Science, University of Pittsburgh
Kathryn Collins, Ph.D.
Chief Analytics Officer, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Anthony DeLuca
Director, Consulting Services at CGI
Andrea DeVries, Ph.D.
Staff Vice President, Translational Research for Affordability and Quality, HealthCore, Inc.
Steve Economou
Managing Director, M&A, G-Squared Partners, LLC
Andy Hannah
Co-Founder, Exec BOD Member & Chief Partnership Officer- Othot; Adjunct Professor of Analytics, University of Pittsburgh
Scott Kinross
Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Analytics, Optimization and Automation, PNC
Manoj Mishra
Vice President, Financial Services at CGI
Rich Nill
Head of C&IB Technology Innovation at PNC Financial Services
Bhavini Patel
CEO & Founder, Beam Data
Jerry Paytas, Ph.D.
Vice President of Analytics, Fourth Economy
Christina Stacy, Ph.D.
Economist, Urban Institute
Sam Ventura, Ph.D.
Director of Hockey Research at Pittsburgh Penguins
Ben Wilson
Founder & CEO, Rivers Agile

Mentors

Blessy Bellamy
Clinical Affairs Specialist & Marketing Analyst, Ebb Therapeutics
Ashton Black
Data Scientist, OThot, Inc.
Rachel Cawley
Business Analyst, UPMC Enterprises
Alex T. Dalla Piazza
Data Scientist, EQT Corporation
David Denne
Credit Risk Solutions Specialist, Moody's Analytics
Anthony Garuccio
Venture Data Scientist, numo llc
Jack Glasl
Analyst, Deloitte Consulting
Ilya Goldin, Ph.D.
Principle Data Scientist, Phenom People
Sumanyu Gupta
Data Scientist, Dick's Sporting Goods
Rhiannon Jacobs
Economic Development Analyst, Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development
Benjamin Kobrin
Asset Manager, Omni NY, LLC
Gabrielle Lazzaro
Senior Analyst II, Digital Media Analytics at Merkle
Samantha Levinson
Manager of Advanced Analytics, Allegheny Health Choices, Inc.
Zheru Liu
Investment Analyst, UPMC
Chengying Luo, Ph.D.
Data Scientist at Happy Elements
Josh MacCarty
VP, Director Data Science, 9 Rooftops Marketing
Kevin McCarthy
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, Slippery Rock University
Laura Meixell
Enterprise Data Architect, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Will Mischler
Analytics Program Associate, GQR Political Polling & Strategy
Ian Morrall, Ph.D.
Economist, Lewin Group
Nicholas Reslink
Senior Quantitative Analyst and Modeling Analyst, PNC
Jack Rossi
Data Scientist, pulseData
Rishi Sadhir
Associate Director, Data Science at Wayfair
Jon Santavy
Partner, Simwell
Scott Shohen
Partner, FluidEdge Life Sciences
Emma Stapleton
Senior Data Scientist, Predictive Solutions
Linnea Warren May
Policy Analyst, Rand Corporation
Yurij Wowczuk
Senior Director and Head, Global Production & Technology, Matthews International
Xiaoxi Zhao, Ph.D.
Economist, Amazon