Dr. Acosta is the program director of the MS in Analytics program at the University of Southern California.
A faculty member of Viterbi School of Engineering at USC, Dr. Acosta is a data analyst and statistical computing scholar.
His research interests focus on using advanced statistical analysis to build models for prediction and classification for decision making in applications such as risk management, asset pricing, and credit risk.
Dr. Acosta holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of Texas at Dallas