Kendall brings firsthand experience to her academic work. She serves as Principal of the Sports Analytics Intelligence Lab (SAIL) at UNC and teaches undergraduate courses in data science and statistical methods, combining academic rigor with practical applications across domains.

Thomas specializes in applied statistics and probability with a a focus on sports analytics. Her research develops methods to analyze and interpret movement dynamics in elite athletes, with a particular emphasis on female athlete performance. A former NCAA Division I soccer player...

to structural modeling problems in quantitative finance and sports analytics. Recent publications include the expansion of the Moneyball approach to prediction in baseball and leveraging techniques from network theory and financial modeling to validating player salaries in soccer.

Before MSU, Albert trained at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of David Kinderlehrer and worked on problems in stochastic analysis, finance, and materials science. Dr. Cohen’s current work focuses on the application of stochastic analysis...

Pickleball Moneyball (2024) and the Handbook of Statistical and Analyses in Sports (2017). He was awarded the 'Significant Contributor to Statistics in Sports' prize at Joint Statistical Meetings (2015), and was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2019).

Swartz received a PhD and MSc from the University of Toronto and BMath from the University of Waterloo. His research interests are in Bayesian statistics and sports analytics. He has authored over 120 research papers, and has published five books including Insights from Sports Analytics (2025)...