Musa Jafar

Musa Jafar is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics & CIS in the School of Business at Manhattan College, where he has been since August 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona, along with multiple Master's degrees in Management Information Systems, Systems Engineering, and Mathematics from the University of Arizona and American University of Beirut. His teaching focuses on Data Mining, Data Visualization, Database Management Systems, and OpenSource Web Development.

His research interests center on data engineering, visual analytics, and developing tools for non-algorithmic programmers to analyze digital humanities data. He has held previous academic positions at West Texas A&M University (as Phil Gensler Professorship holder), the University of Arizona, and Washington State University. His professional experience includes roles as a Senior Software Engineer at IBM and Bell Communications Research.

Key awards include the 2017 Tate Award Finalist (NACRA), 2016 Distinguished Paper Award (CONISAR), and the 1996 President's Club Performance Award (US West Communication). His work emphasizes tool development for data analytics, curriculum innovation, and social media analysis.

He actively participates in academic conferences, delivering workshops on topics like HTML5/WebGL visualization, R-based data analytics, and SQL Server BI tools. No specific grants are highlighted in the text, but his professorships and awards reflect sustained academic contribution.