Leadership

Paul Salasznyk, Ph.D.

CEO and Principal Data Scientist

Paul Salasznyk is the Founder and Principal Data Scientist at Emprata, a firm specializing in the application of advanced data analytics for strategic, data-driven decision-making. He has extensive experience solving complex, multifaceted problems of national significance and scope using a variety of sophisticated tools and techniques. For over a decade, he has participated in projects spanning many domains including finance, transportation, defense, health, and telecommunications industries, in both the public and private sectors.

He specializes in a variety of analytic disciplines including data mining, predictive analytics, machine learning, statistical analysis, econometrics, mathematical modeling, and optimization, as well as the creation of meaningful visualizations of data. His efforts focus on the use of different platforms and toolkits, to create scalable and operationalized analytical processes for various business problems.

Prior to founding Emprata, Paul was the Director of Data Analytics at Computech, Inc. A Project Management Institute (PMI) credentialed manager, Paul is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds a B.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering (’03), M.E. in Operations Research and Statistics (’05), and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems (’08). He is a published researcher and an active member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).