Meet the Experts
Jennifer Lewis Priestley, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of The Graduate College at Kennesaw State University. She oversees the Analytics and Data Science Institute, which houses one of the country’s first Ph.D. programs in Analytics and Data Science. Dr. Priestley has published dozens of articles related to the application of emerging methods in data science. She is a national speaker and frequent contributor to articles relating to the evolution and maturation of the discipline of data science. She earned a BS from Georgia Tech, an MBA from Penn State and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University.
Sherrill Hayes, Ph.D. is the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Analytics and Data Science at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Hayes currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and is the coeditor of Atone: Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation (Lexington Books 2018). Dr. Hayes received his BS and MS in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his Ph.D. in Social Policy from Newcastle University in the UK.
