Former Graduate Students and Affiliates
Listed below are former students and affiliates of the Center for Predictive Analytics.
Stacey Brown Amilian
Faculty Fellow and Affiliate, 2020 - 2022
Stacey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and GIS at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) and one of the 2021 C-PAN Faculty Fellows. She earned her BS in Geography, a minor in Economics and a GIS certificate from Oklahoma State University. She earned her MS in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte focusing on location analysis. After graduation, she moved to Chicago to work for the Walgreen Corporation as a Market Analyst. After working two years in Chicago and traveling around the United States finding the ‘corners of happy and healthy’, she returned to Oklahoma State University to earn her Ph.D. in Geography. She was the seventh recipient and the first female awarded her doctoral degree from the OSU Geography department. Her research interests focus on medical geography, specifically how the built environment influences health and accessibility issues.
Jie Ying
Faculty Fellow and Affiliate, 2020 - 2022
Jie is an Assistant Professor of Finance at SIUE and is a graduate of the University of Iowa. His research interests are centered around institutional investors and insurance economics. As a Faculty Fellow, he studies the potential impacts of common ownership on the risk contagions and spillovers among financial institutions in the United States. Such ownership links may create excessive interconnectedness that discounts the stability of the financial system that consists of those commonly owned financial institutions. Hopefully the findings will provide policy implications for central banks to better monitor and supervise the financial institutions.
Courtney Flach
Alumna
Courtney worked for the Center as a graduate research assistant and obtained her master’s in geography. Combining her background in mathematics with new GIS and data science tools, Courtney worked on projects related to geospatial variability in human populations, specifically the impact of weather and climatic patterns on people. She also provided guidance to the Center’s undergraduate workforce, helping them learn how to code in the various statistical programming languages and overcome common barriers that students often face when entering the data analytics field.
Michelle Mendez-Prosser
Alumna
Michelle worked for the Center as a graduate research assistant. She obtained her MBA with a specialization in data analytics. She worked on a variety of projects, using business intelligence tools to help C-PAN's clients and collaborators make data-driven decisions. She also helped oversee the Center's undergraduate workforce and helped them navigate common data interface questions.
Christine Seitz
Alumna
Christine worked for the Center as a graduate research assistant and graduate data science intern, She obtained her master's in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Her research interests include work/life balance, leadership development, people analytics, and research methodology. Within C-PAN, her background in statistics, research, and experimental design aided in navigating a wide variety of client projects.
Mukhtar Akinsemoyin
Alum
Mukhtar worked as a graduate research assistant and graduate data science intern at the Center. He obtained in master's in Computer Management and Information Systems. He worked on a variety of projects including the Southwest IL Property Tax Study. He also helped oversee the Center's undergraduate workforce and helped them navigate common data interface questions.
