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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

Business Analytics and Statistics


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Michael R. Galbreth, Department Head
Julie Ferrara, Assistant Department Head and Director of Corporate Partnerships
Wenjun Zhou, Program Director (Business Analytics, PhD)
Bogdan Bichescu, Program Director (Business Analytics, MS)
Charles Cwiek, Program Director (Business Analytics, Undergraduate)
Russell Zaretzki, Program Director (Intercollegiate Graduate Statistics and Data Science Program)
Adam Petrie, Executive Director, JTV Center for Applied Business Analytics

Professors
Bichescu, B.C. (Melton Faculty Fellow), PhD – Cincinnati
Bozdogan, H. (Toby and Brenda McKenzie Professor in Business), PhD – Illinois (Chicago)
Galbreth, M.R., (Pilot Corporation Chair of Excellence), PhD – Vanderbilt
Huang, T. (Amazon Distinguished Professor), PhD – Northwestern
Mee, R.W. (William and Sarah Clark Professor in Business), PhD – Iowa State
Souza, G.C. (Haslam Chair in Business Analytics), PhD – North Carolina
Willems, S.P. (Haslam Chair in Supply Chain Analytics), PhD – MIT
Zheng, W., PhD – Illinois (Chicago)
Zhou, W. (Lawson Professor of Business), PhD – Rutgers

Joint Professor
Maroulas, V., PhD – North Carolina

Associate Professors
Ballings, M., PhD – Ghent, Belgium
Hilafu, H.T., PhD – Georgia
Jia, Z., PhD – Pennsylvania State
Letizia, P. (Ball Corporation Professor), PhD – Pennsylvania State
Liu, C. (Beaman Professor), PhD – Rutgers
Zaretzki, R.L. (Heath Faculty Fellow), PhD – Cornell

Assistant Professors
Demirkaya, E., PhD – Southern California
Gao, L., PhD – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Liu, Y., PhD – Iowa

Teaching Associate Professors
Petrie, A.G., PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic
Shi, Y., PhD – Iowa

Teaching Assistant Professor
Bryan, N., PhD – Tennessee

Distinguished Lecturers
Cwiek, C.M., MS – Tennessee
Stevens, B.J., MS – Tennessee

Senior Lecturer
Ferrara, J.D., MS – Tennessee

Lecturers
Espinosa, S.C., MS – Columbia
Higgins, T.A., MS – Tennessee
Ozel, E., PhD – UCLA
Pannell, T.A., PhD – Tennessee
Spannbauer, A., MS – Tennessee

Adjunct Faculty
Eckles, J., EdD – Memphis
Kohnen, C., PhD – Duke
Ostrouchov, G., PhD – Iowa State

Emeriti Faculty
Bowers, M.R., PhD – Clemson
Gilbert, K.C., PhD – Tennessee
Guess, F.M., PhD – Florida State
Leitnaker, M.G., PhD – Kentucky
Leon, R.V., PhD – Florida State
Noon, C.E., PhD – Michigan
Srinivasan, M.M., PhD – Northwestern

Majors, Degrees
Business Administration Major, Full-Time, MBA     
  Business Analytics Concentration
Business Administration Major, PhD      
  Statistics Concentration
Business Analytics Major, MS   
Dual MS-MBA, Business Analytics Major - Business Administration Major    
Business Analytics Major, PhD   
Statistics Major, MS   
  Intercollegiate Graduate Statistics and Data Science Concentration
Minor
  Intercollegiate Graduate Statistics and Data Science Minor   

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