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Haileab Hilafu

Haileab Hilafu

Associate Professor, James & Connie Vavalides Faculty Fellow

Phone 865-974-9311

Email hhilafu@utk.edu

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Location Room - 233, Stokely Management Center

Department:

Business Analytics & Statistics

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Biography

Haileab Hilafu is an associate professor of business analytics and statistics in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also James & Connie Vavalides Faculty Fellow. He teaches business analytics and statistics courses in the undergraduate and MSBA programs. His current research interests are in causal inference and statistical/machine learning, with applications in healthcare and retail operations.

Hilafu’s work has been published in refereed journals such as the Journal of Royal Statistical Society-Series B (JRSSB), Journal of Computation and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM), and the Production and Operations Management (POM).

Expertise:

Applied Statistics, Computational Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning

Education:

2014 University of Georgia, Ph.D., Statistics

2011 University of Georgia, M.S., Statistics

2007 University of Asmara,Eritrea, B.S., Statistics

Awards/Honors
  • HCB Advanced Supply Chain Collaborative (ASCC) Award, University of Tennessee. 2022.
  • MSBA Faculty Outstanding Commitment to Students Award, University of Tennessee. 2018.
  • Best Senior Student, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia. 2014.
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia. 2012.
  • Best Beginning Theoretical Student, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia. 2010.
  • Graduated with Distinction, University of Asmara, Asmara, Eritrea. 2007.