Instructor Profiles

Wayne Folta is a Lead Data Scientist at Elder Research, Inc. where he develops and deploys models for clients. His current work involves the design and implementation of text mining and deep learning models at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; he has also been active within Elder Research in exploring and assessing epidemiological models in R. Previous work has included fraud analytics and customer complaint modeling. Before joining Elder, Wayne worked as a software developer in the US government and in communications.