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Vaziri teaches undergraduate courses in business analytics, business statistics, and management science, and graduate MBA courses in decision making and data analytics.
Vaziri’s research focuses on business analytics, ranking methods with applications to sports, and academic motivation in higher education.
Vaziri earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a doctorate in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University.

Daniel J. Eck is a professor of statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research mission is to improve statistical methodologies that are applicable to real-world problems with a focus placed on both the theoretical and computational aspects of this methodology. To better understand relevant real-world problems, Eck works closely with scientists and researchers across a variety of disciplines. Eck's current methodological work has applications in evolutionary biology, baseball, history, education, epidemiology, and genomics studies. Eck teaches advanced statistical modeling, programming, and baseball analytics. He runs a joint internship with the Chicago Cubs in which undergraduate students get hands-on experience with baseball analytics in the real world.
Research interests

sports analytics
history
evolutionary biology
economics

Education
PhD Statistics, University of Minnesota, 2017
 BS Mathematics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009