MICHAEL D. PORTER
Associate Professor
Data Science
Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
432 Data Science Bldg
mdporter@virginia.edu
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ABOUT
I'm an Associate Professor in the School of Data Science and the Department of Systems and Information Engineering (previous appointment in the Darden School of Business ) at the University of Virginia.
BACKGROUND
I received a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2006, a M.S. from Vanderbilt University in 2003, and a B.S. from Purdue University in 1998. I have been an Assistant and Associate professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Alabama (2013-2018), principal research scientist for Spadac, Geoeye, and DigitalGlobe (2008-2013), post-doc at NCSU and SAMSI (2006-2008), as well as an industrial engineer and maintenance supervisor for Sanford/Newell Brands (1998-2001).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Event Prediction:
modeling where, when, and why events occur
- forecasting for social good
- crime and terrorism prediction
- traffic incident prediction
- point processes, spatial statistics, time series, predictive analytics, machine learning
- anomaly and changepoint detection
- dynamic network analysis
- spatial hotspot detection
- clustering
- data mining
- crime linkage
- statistical forensics
- record linkage
- road conflation