Ivan Hernandez, assistant professor of psychology in the Virginia Tech College of Science, has been awarded a Data Science Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The Data Science Faculty Fellowship was established in 2021 by an anonymous couple to increase the national and international profile of data science research and education at Virginia Tech. The fellowship recognizes a faculty member who is dedicated to exceptional research and teaching, recruits high-achieving scholars, and has a scholarly focus on data science and its applications within and across disciplines. The purpose is to retain highly qualified faculty.
The recipient will hold the title of Data Science Faculty Fellow for three years.
A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2018, Hernandez’s research program focuses on developing new methodologies to advance the study of organizations and people, and includes statistical modeling, machine learning, and natural language models. Built-in. He develops tools and approaches to understand and predict human behavior in group settings, and his research has been published in leading methodological and research journals. He has authored his four chapters of his book and has given over 50 of his professional presentations based on that scholarship.
A highlight of his research program is the continued provision of computer code and free open source tools to facilitate research by other researchers and PhDs. student. In addition to his strong publication record, his research is supported by a current National Science Foundation grant and his second grant from the National Reconnaissance Agency. He also received a fellowship from the Consortium Research Fellows Program.
Hernandez has taught multiple quantitative courses in the psychology department. He is known to his students and fellow faculty members for his ability to communicate complex machine learning techniques and coding languages. His course, “Predicting Social Behavior,” with a minor in behavioral decision science, attracts students from nearly every college on campus.
Before coming to Virginia Tech, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and his two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He received his doctorate in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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