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Professional Overview

Bio: Navid Sabbaghi is a mentor, educator, researcher, and entrepreneur with a professional background in analytics, computer science, optimization, and machine learning. Navid Sabbaghi is a professor in the Business Analytics and Data Science Department in the School of Economics and Business Administration at Saint Mary's College of California. He has guided thousands of  business students on applying analytics, engineering, and technology skills to various business areas. Dr. Navid, as he is affectionately called, has Bachelors degrees in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UC Berkeley, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research fellowship during his graduate studies.

Courses Taught:

• Advanced Quantitative Methods
• Business Statistics & Probability
• Cloud Computing
• Databases
• Leading Technologies such as Blockchain and Drones 
• Machine Learning / AI & Big Data
• Optimization
• Practicum / Capstone Course
• Programming Focused on Data Analysis

Publications:

• Sadjady Naeeni, H., Sabbaghi, N. (2022). Sustainable supply chain network design: A case of the glass manufacturer in Asia. International Journal of Production Economics. 
• Lee, J., Sabbaghi, N. (2020). Multi-objective optimization case study for algorithmic trading strategies in foreign exchange markets. Digital Finance. 

Education

• PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008.
• MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.
• BA, Mathematics. University of California, Berkeley, 1998.