Background
Dr. Peter Salemi has over 10 years of experience in quantitative research, machine learning, and statistics in both academic and industry settings. As a data scientist at The MITRE Corporation, he works with several federal agencies ranging from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Dr. Salemi received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Northwestern University, an M.S. in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Mathematics and B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
His academic research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and stochastic simulation, and Dr. Salemi’s research has been published in Operations Research, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, and the Journal of Simulation. Dr. Salemi has also served as the co-chair of the Simulation Optimization track for the 2017, 2019, and 2020 Winter Simulation Conferences, and as a reviewer for several academic journals. His teaching interests are machine learning, data management, and statistics. As an adjunct faculty member at Merrimack College, Dr. Salemi is the instructor for both the Machine Learning and Text and Image Mining courses.