At a high level, I am very intersted  in researching the strategic value of big data and predictive analytics to address high-impact social problems such as financial markets problems, disease outbreaks, climate change and well-being.  I have been researching and developing biologically inspired algorithms, specifically swarm intelligence algorithms, that can contribute to the machine learning literature.

My passion lies in creating data mining algorithms to discover hidden knowledge and insights and apply them to financial markets, climate change and poverty reduction initiatives. I am interested in researching how data mining algorithms can be developed and applied to understand the dynamics of social networks including identifying social communities, community outliers and most influential individuals, and predicting events from micro-blogs such as Twitter. 

Please contact me to learn more about the current research projects my team and I are working on. 

• Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Bio-inspired Algorithms
• Data science and its Practical Applications to Financial Markets, Social Networks Analytics, and Healthcare
• Pedagogical Approaches in Computer Science Education