Michele Bennett
Adjunct Faculty
Biography
Michele possesses strong and equal expertise in technology, science, marketing, and business. She began her career as research scientist in the early stages of genetic engineering, gene targeting and chromosomal chemistry. For the last 25 years, she has launched and managed numerous departments and organizations in various verticals especially within the advanced technology, academic, advertising and marketing, and healthcare space. She is a published author and frequent speaker in the area of patient experiences and the impact on health outcomes. Michele has led teams of PhD data scientists and quantitative research analysts, and engineers within advanced technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, IoT, predictive and prescriptive analyses, text analytics, high-level security environments, and cloud infrastructures, as well as teams in marketing and business analytics. Michele co-founded Wool Labs, LLC. Wool Labs is the leader in Social Cognition Technologies. Wool’s premier product, WebDig, is a Internet text mining and qualitative research system that provides deep, meaningful insight into industries, companies, products and consumer attitudes. WebDig provides deep analysis into human behavior as well as predictive indexes. Michele has degrees and certificates in Microbiology, Computer Engineering, Law, and Data Science. She has a PhD in Information Technology with specialization in Data Science and Research Methodologies.
Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology
  • Master of Science in Computer Science
Programs Taught
  • Advanced Graduate Certificate in Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
  • Doctor of Business Administration with an Emphasis in Data Analytics
  • Doctor of Business Administration: Data Analytics (Qualitative Research)
  • Doctor of Business Administration: Data Analytics (Quantitative Research)
  • Doctor of Business Administration: Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship (Qualitative Research)
Classes
  • CST-520: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • CST-540: Programming Languages
  • CST-560: Research Methods in Computational Sciences
  • CST-570: Machine Learning for Computer Science
  • DBA-831: Analytic Foundations for Business Leaders
Publications
  • Mark Mishra, Michele Bennett, Armon Vincent, Olivia T. Lee, Costas D. Lallas, Edouard John Trabulsi, Leonard G. Gomella, Adam Dicker, and Timothy Norman Showalter. (2012). Natural language processing (NLP) of Internet conversations to evaluate prostate cancer (PC) patients’ perceptions of active surveillance (AS)..
  • Mark V Mishra , Michele Bennett, Armon Vincent, Olivia T Lee, Costas D Lallas, Edouard J Trabulsi, Leonard G Gomella, Adam P Dicker, Timothy N Showalter. (2013). Identifying Barriers to Patient Acceptance of Active Surveillance: Content Analysis of Online Patient Communications,.
  • Michele Bennett. (2013). The Online Reputations of Chantix and Novolog FlexPen.
  • Michele Bennett. (2017). Using Social Media for Medical Research:.
  • Michele Bennett. (2020). Patient and Employee Experiences in Healthcare: Research Insights.
Licenses / Certificates
  • CGEIT
  • PMP
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