Dana Nehoran

Dana Nehoran is an industry authority in the management of data-driven engineering programs and a leader in the field of higher education analytics.

She came to University of the Pacific after teaching for a number of other universities, most recently at San Jose State University, where she also held the position of Director of Student Success Decision Sciences in the Academic Affairs Division, leading a team that used predictive analytics to enable data-assisted decision making in several student success initiatives around campus. She continues in this role here at Pacific in addition to teaching for the MS in Data Science program and the department of Computer Science.  

Earlier on, for over two decades, Nehoran held senior management and consulting positions with Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, Cisco, Qualcomm, Philips and Yahoo!, and has taught classes in data science and program management for Silicon Valley companies.  

Nehoran earned her master's degree in analytics from University of San Francisco. She is also a PMP by the Project Management Institute, SAS certified, and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.