History
While the consulting firm of Praxis Analytics LLP began formal operations on 1 January 2019, the managing members have worked together for over fifteen years. Dr. Derrick Cogburn and Dr. Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesus met while working at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They found that their individual fields complemented each other’s in surprising, and what turned out to be inseparable, ways. Dr. Cogburn was serving on the faculty of the School of Information and Dr. Enchautegui worked on an NIH-funded post-doctoral fellowship. Over the years, this husband and wife team have worked on a wide variety of mixed methods research and evaluation projects. Dr. Cogburn, in addition to serving a President and CEO of the firm, focuses on computational text mining including categorization and classification model development, and data visualization as well as predictive and prescriptive modeling and automated machine learning using commercial (e.g. Provalis ProSuite, DataRobot, and Tableau) and open source tools (e.g,. R, Python). He also conducts individual and group training on these commercial and open source tools. Dr. Enchautegui focuses on research design and qualitative and statistical analysis.
One impetus to the formation of the actual firm was the iCorps grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the American University Center for Innovation (AUCI). The iCorps program is designed to facilitate faculty entrepreneurship and student collaboration. As part of the AU iCorps, Dr. Cogburn fielded a team of graduate and undergraduate students in the Spring semester of 2018. This team conducted numerous client discovery interviews and helped to shape the market approach now taken by Praxis Analytics LLC.
For over two decades, the team at Praxis Analytics LLC has facilitated the success of researchers in diverse fields and industries around the world.
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Managing Member, President and CEO
Senior Data Scientist
Derrick L. Cogburn, Ph.D.
A long-time entrepreneur, Dr. Cogburn is a Full Professor at American University, with a joint appointment in the Kogod School of Business, in the Department of Information Technology & Analytics; and the School of International Service, in the International Communication Program and affiliated with the International Development Program. In addition, he is the founding executive director of the AU Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) and one of the founding faculty directors of the Internet Governance Lab. Dr Cogburn has published widely in scientific journals and academic/scholarly presses. He edits the book series on Information Technology and Global Governance for Palgrave Macmillan. Prior to his career in academia, Derrick served as Africa Regional Director for the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), and as Executive Director of director of its first spinoff, GIIC Africa. He founded the Center for Information Society Development in Africa (CISDA) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. While in graduate school, Derrick worked at the Library of Congress in the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service (CRS); in the Europe, Africa, and Middle East Section.
Education
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D, Political Science, 1996
MA, Political Science, 1994
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
B.A., History & Political Science, 1992
Activities & Affiliations
American Political Science Association (APSA), Member
(Past President, Information Technology and Politics Section)International Studies Association (ISA), Member
(Past President, International Communication Section)Global Universal Design Commission, Inc., Board Member
Seafarers Foundation, Inc., Former Board Member
Seafarers Yacht Club, Inc., Past Commodore/Board Member
Managing Member, Senior Vice President and CFO
Senior Statistical Analyst
Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesus, Ph.D.
Dr. Enchautegui is Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University. She has served as Program Evaluation Specialist for the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) and advisor to students working on theses and dissertations for over 15 years.
Education
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Ph.D, Psychology, 2001
M.A., Psychology, 1996
UNIVERSITY OF Puerto Rico
B.A., Psychology, 1991
Activities & Affiliations
American Psychological Association (APA), Member
Seafarers Yacht Club, Inc., Auxiliary Member