Dirk Van den Poel

Dr. Dirk Van den Poel (PhD) is Professor of Data Analytics at Ghent University, Belgium.

He teaches courses such as Big Data Analytics and Analytical Customer Relationship Management.

He co-founded the advanced Master of Science in Marketing Analysis, the first (predictive) analytics master program in the world (now renamed to Data Science for Business) as well as the Master of Science in Statistical Data Analysis, and the Master of Science in Business Engineering/Data Analytics. His methodological interests include ensemble classification methods and big data.

He has co-authored 150+ international peer-reviewed (ISI-indexed) publications in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Journal of Statistical Software, European Journal of Operational Research, and Decision Support Systems.

Dr. Dirk Van den Poel has graduated 20+ PhD students. Several of them are continuing their careers in the U.S..