Hassan Rafique is a Lecturer in the Department of Business Analytics at the University of Iowa. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Data Science and founding Director of the Center for Data Science at the University of Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2020. His research interests are in sports analytics, machine learning (ML), and optimization. Hassan has presented sports analytics research work at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and received first place in a reproducible research competition at the Carnegie Mellon University Sports Analytics Conference. His work on interpretable ML received a best paper runners-up award at the Data Mining Conference at 2019 INFORMS.

He is an educator at heart and greatly enjoys teaching and mentoring. He has taught data science, time series, applied statistics, and visualization courses.