Rick Chakra

Rick Chakra

Adjunct Faculty
SCHOOL OF DATA SCIENCE

Education: M.S. Data Science and Business Analytics – UNC Charlotte, Ph.D. Candidate Computing and Informatics – UNC Charlotte

Courses Taught: DSBA 6156 – Applied Machine Learning

Biography: Rick Chakra is the Founder and CEO of Armada IQ, a venture-backed startup building autonomous vehicle assessment and benchmarking tools. Rick’s academic research focuses on exploring the boundaries of machine intelligence through simulation. Rick was previously a Senior Consultant in Deloitte’s Applied AI practice and has experience in solution architecture, computer vision, and machine learning.