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Sachin Desai

Teaching Professor

Sachin Desai is a Teaching Professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs (JKSIS) at the University of Denver. He has been teaching and coordinating the graduate quantitative methods curriculum at JKSIS since 2012. At JKSIS, he develops and teaches core and elective graduate courses in statistics, econometrics, statistical computing and data visualization. He teaches wonderful students studying in fantastic JKSIS programs such as development, economic affairs, environmental sustainability, global health, human rights, international studies, public policy and security. He has extensive experience with in-person as well as online teaching.

 

Prior to joining Korbel, Sachin taught at the Daniels College of Business (Department of Business Intelligence and Analytics & Reiman School of Finance) at the University of Denver from 2004 to 2012. At Daniels, he developed and taught core and elective graduate and undergraduate courses in statistics, finance, data analytics and operations research.

 

Sachin was born and raised in Mumbai (Bombay), India before moving to the US for graduate studies in 1999. His projects and interests incorporate various aspects of data science such as statistical analysis, programming, visualization and machine learning, as well as computational finance, financial modeling and decision analysis.

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  • Professional Affiliations

    Global Economic Affairs

  • Recognized multiple times by the DU Provost and JKSIS Dean as one of DU's 'Most Outstanding Faculty Members Contributing To Impactful Teaching

  • Bestowed a 'Faculty Recognition For Teaching' award by the JKSIS Graduate Student Association.

  • Nominated as a Faculty Career Champion by DU students

  • Selected as the Pioneer Professor (Advisor) for the DU Men's Tennis Team.

  • Statistics (using Stata) (Currently taught)

  • Advanced Statistics (Currently taught)

  • Econometrics (Currently taught)

  • Data Science with R (Currently taught)

  • Data Visualization with Tableau (Currently taught)

  • Applied Time-Series Analysis

  • Data Science with Python

  • Multivariate Statistics

  • Statistical Computing using SAS

  • Advanced Corporate Finance

  • Financial Modeling and Operations Management

  • MBA (Finance), University of Denver, CO

  • M.S. (Computer Science), University of Denver, CO

  • B.E. (Computer Engineering), University of Mumbai, India

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