DOHA: A new associate dean has been appointed at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q).
Effective from December 2014, John O’Brien will be responsible for assisting the Dean’s Office with faculty affairs, including recruitment, reviews for reappointments, promotions and mentoring.
O’Brien has been with Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business since 1984.
He was co-architect of the first Educational Trading Room, which combined and applied real time data and computer-aided experiential learning tools to finance education worldwide.
This resulted in a four-course series titled ‘Financial Analysis and Securities’ (FAST), which was innovative in terms of its application of computer networking and computer-aided decisionmaking to education.
“I have known John for many years, and am pleased to welcome him into the administration at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. With three decades of experience at CMU-Q.
“John will be an asset to the Qatar campus as we continue to advance academic programmes and attract a world-class faculty,” said Ilker Baybars, Dean.
O’Brien was previously the director of the business administration programme at CMU-Q, teaching accounting and economics.
He is working on addressing one of the major challenges facing business and business school educators, which is how to drive profitability growth by extracting business intelligence from Big Data.
The project looks at the new challenges presented by Big Data databases through the creation of a Big Data Business Laboratory. The Peninsula
