Dr. Al Doulat joined the ETSU in the Department of Computing this fall 2021 to serve
the Data Analytics program at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Al Doulat's
educational background includes a bachelor’s in Computer Science, a master’s in Computer
Science, and a Ph.D. in Software and Information Systems from the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte in 2021. His prior academic experience includes services at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
His research interests lie in the broad area of data science with an emphasis on machine
learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Analysis, Data Visualization and Storytelling,
and Natural Language Processing. During his Ph.D., he worked on a collaboration project
between the National Science Foundation and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
This project develops innovative techniques and applications to automatically discover
potential trends and influence factors from big data. In this project, he designed
and developed a decision support system to support academic and professional faculty
members and advisors understand the complex and heterogeneous student data. This decision
support system wins an award from the NSF Innovation Corps and UNC Charlotte's Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Center.