DR. ASH PAHWA
Ash Pahwa, Ph.D., is an educator, author, entrepreneur, and technology visionary with three decades of industry and academic experience. Dr. Pahwa currently teaches a data science course, “Advanced Analytics: Machine Learning Using R and Python.” at California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Pahwa earned his doctorate in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is listed in Who's Who in the Frontiers of Science and Technology. He is also a Google Certified Analytics Consultant. In Industry, Dr. Pahwa has worked for General Electric, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Xerox Corporation, and Oracle. He founded CD-Gen, Inc. and DV Studio Technologies, LLC., which introduced successful products for CD-Recording (CDR), MPEG encoding, and videotape-to-DVD archiving. His book, CD-Recordable Bible, has been published in English, Japanese, and German.

 COURSE DESCRIPTION

 Statistics

Statistics allows us to collect, analyze, and interpret data. In this class, you will master the most widely used statistical methods, while also learning to design efficient and informative studies, to perform statistical analyses. No prior knowledge of statistics is required.

This course presents the most widely used methods of statistics. Course topics include descriptive statistics, basic probability, t-tests, analysis of variance, linear regression, correlation. Emphasis is on concepts and applications rather than theorems and proofs. Students will gain the ability to design efficient and informative studies and to perform statistical analyses.


 Calculus

This course will cover both aspects of Calculus – differentiation and integration. It will start with concepts of limits. The derivation and differentiation of all mathematical functions will be covered. Next the concepts of integration will be covered. This course is equivalent to the High School Calculus BC course. This course will help you to get college credit for Math.