Teaching Assistant Professor and MADS Faculty Director
reisanar@unc.edu | Rei Sanchez-Arias‘s Website
Research Areas:Data mining, machine learning algorithm development, numerical optimization, data science education
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 of data science and business analytics at Florida Polytechnic University. He strives to implement innovative and effective methods for teaching and learning of data science, has been recognized with excellence in teaching awards and has been an invited speaker at multiple conferences to discuss topics in data science education.
Sanchez-Arias earned a BSc in Mathematics from Universidad del Valle (Colombia) and a PhD in Computational Science from the University of Texas at El Paso. He completed a postdoctoral researcher appointment for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center working in reduced order models and data compression techniques. In recent research projects, he has focused on the application and development of data mining and statistical learning methods and algorithms to propose solutions to applied sciences and engineering problems. Sanchez-Arias is a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and INFORMS, where he serves on the education outreach committee.