MICHAEL D. PORTER
Associate Professor
Data Science
Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
434.243.3173
102F Olsson Hall
mdporter@virginia.edu
Engineering Faculty Page
I'm an Associate Professor in the
School of Data Science
and the
Department of Engineering Systems and Environment
(previous appointment in the
Darden School of Business
) at the
University of Virginia.
I enjoy spending time with my bride,
Erica,
and three kids Evie, Joseph, and Benjamin, reading, and being
outdoors.
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).
- 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