Faculty Spotlight: Abdirisak Mohamed, Lecturer

iSchoolNews - October 18, 2019

Faculty Spotlight: Abdirisak Mohamed, Lecturer

headshot of Abdirisak AbdullahiAbdirisak Abdullahi Mohamed joined the iSchool in January 2019 to support the rapidly growing undergraduate program by teaching decision making for information science and statistics. With a background in teaching mathematics and data science courses and currently working in software development as a cloud content architect and data scientist at SAP Labs, the interdisciplinary approach of the iSchool is a perfect match for Abdirisak. As a parent of a Terp alumni, Abdirisak is passionate about extending his role past lecturer: he has recently participated in a data science education workshop and hopes to bring new approaches to data literacy to the iSchool. In his free time, Abdirisak enjoys running and reading non-fiction—a pertinent read for all researchers and data scientists, he heartily recommends Judea Pearl and Dana MacKenzie’s The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect.