Irene Tsapara

Adjunct Faculty at Northwestern University School of Professional Studies
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Greater Chicago Area
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Greek Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Limited working proficiency
  • French Limited working proficiency

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Credentials

  • Concurrency in Go
    UC Irvine
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Data Analyst Professional Certificate (V2)
    Coursera
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos
    IBM
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Databases and SQL for Data Science with Python
    IBM
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Certified Data Analyst
    IBM
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Introduction to Data Science
    IBM
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Microsoft Azure Management Tools and Security Solutions
    Microsoft
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Programming with Google Go
    UC Irvine
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
    Microsoft
    Jun, 2022
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Adjunct Faculty
      • Sep 2014 - Present

      Masters in Data Science (MSDS Program) Teaching Graduate Predictive Analytics, Introduction to Data Science, Statistical Analysis with R programming, Decision Analytics with ASPE Excel and Python Gurobi / Linear, Non-Linear Programming and other optimization techniques, Queueing Theory and Simulations. Business Analytics and Risk Analytics courses with R programming and Python. Time Series with Python, Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms. Course Coordinator: Introduction to Business Analytics Research: Learning Analytics, E-learning platform Analytics, Financial Risk Analysis, Applied Machine Learning. Show less

  • Zygen Consulting
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States
    • President
      • Oct 2020 - Present

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Adjunct Professor
      • Sep 2004 - Jul 2022

      Teaching Graduate courses on Databases and Data Mining Mentoring New Adjunct instructors Teaching Graduate courses on Databases and Data Mining Mentoring New Adjunct instructors

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lecturer/ Course Coordinator
      • Aug 2017 - Sep 2020

      Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Teaching Applied Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Data Structures, C++ Programming, R programming, College Algebra and Precalculus Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Teaching Applied Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Data Structures, C++ Programming, R programming, College Algebra and Precalculus

    • Advertising Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Data Analytics Consultant
      • Sep 2008 - Aug 2016

      Consulting in: Data engineering and algorithm design for trading systems. Researching, designing, and building various scales and complexity systems by implementing supervised and unsupervised machine-learning techniques. Applying technologies and methodologies associated with machine learning, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and/or ontology engineering technologies. Consulting in: Data engineering and algorithm design for trading systems. Researching, designing, and building various scales and complexity systems by implementing supervised and unsupervised machine-learning techniques. Applying technologies and methodologies associated with machine learning, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and/or ontology engineering technologies.

    • Greece
    • Higher Education
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Visiting Assistant Professor
      • Sep 2001 - Jun 2003

      Research on HCI and Learning Analytics - e-learning Research on HCI and Learning Analytics - e-learning

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Data Financial Engineer
      • Oct 1999 - Sep 2001

      Worked with electronic traders and researchers in a very dynamic and fast paced environment, prepared and tested global trading systems, specialized in US and international index compositions, (daily price changes, data changes etc.), factor models –statistical and fundamental- such as BARRA and QUANTAL. • Designed and implemented an automated process in Perl/C++ to facilitate and reduce the manual/lengthy morning daily processes that prepared the data for the trading systems. • Designed, implemented and optimized programs in C++/Unix to calculate historical volatilities of Equities, and Monte Carlo simulations using proprietary as well as Bloomberg and Reuters data, for daily trading purposes. • Created new trading baskets by analyzing historical data, using long and short-term factor models and statistical analysis, (i.e.: betas, correlation and covariance analysis). * Designed and implemented Garch model for trading algorithm. Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Visiting Assistant Professor
      • Sep 1999 - Jun 2001

      Teaching Java Programming, Computer Algorithms, Data Analysis, C++ Programming and Human Computer Interaction Teaching Java Programming, Computer Algorithms, Data Analysis, C++ Programming and Human Computer Interaction

    • United States
    • Investment Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Investment Analyst, Senior Software Developer
      • Sep 1996 - Sep 1999

      • Performed risk analysis and optimization of portfolios, using Modern Portfolio Analysis, VaR methodology to measure risk, Style analysis, multiple regression and position overlays between funds, for creation and rebalancing of in-house fund of funds. • Created investable Hedge fund indices over a database of historical data of 4000 Hedge funds, researched and rebalanced them over an extensive period of time. Designed and implemented algorithms, advised on theoretical aspects regarding software design and development issues, supervised and mentored younger programmers • Designed, implemented and maintained proprietary financial algorithms, risk analysis and mathematical software tools and data structures, in Visual C++, C, VB in Windows and Unix environments, used extensively, for the creation and risk analysis of fund of funds and Hedge funds. • Developed a complete library of VC++ DLL functions for risk management including Markowitz Efficient Frontier – portfolio analysis (using integer quadratic programming), simple and weighted Style Analysis, downside deviations Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Instructor
      • Sep 1989 - Dec 1997

      Taught math and computer science courses as C, C++, Numerical Analysis, Operating Systems, Business and Vector Calculus, Discrete Mathematics, Finite Mathematics, Algebra, Logic for Computer Scientists Taught math and computer science courses as C, C++, Numerical Analysis, Operating Systems, Business and Vector Calculus, Discrete Mathematics, Finite Mathematics, Algebra, Logic for Computer Scientists

Education

  • University of Illinois Chicago
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematical Computer Science
    1992 - 1997
  • University of Illinois Chicago
    MS Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science
    1989 - 1991
  • University of Patras
    Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics
    1985 - 1989
  • Arsakeia - Tositseia Schools
    1981 - 1985

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