Full Name
Sabah Bushaj
Position
Associate Professor, SUNY Plattsburgh
Email
sbush010@plattsburgh.edu

Education

Academic Experience

  • Aug 2026 - Present

    Associate Professor of Business Analytics

    State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
    • Teaching statistics, operations research, and predictive analytics.
  • Aug 2021 - Aug 2026

    Assistant Professor of Business Analytics

    State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
  • Oct 2018 - Aug 2021

    PhD Candidate

    New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ
  • Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

    Lecturer

    Tirana University, Tirana, Albania

Industry Experience

  • Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

    Data Science Intern - NLP Analyst

    Novartis Oncology, East Hanover, NJ
  • Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

    SAP Consultant

    Brizo Consulting G.m.b.H, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Oct 2016 - Sep 2017

    SAP Developer

    Albtelecom Albania, Tirana, Albania

Memberships

  • Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)
  • Society of North American Scholars (SNAS)

Awards

  • 2025
    • Office of Institutional Effectiveness Fellowship, SUNY Plattsburgh
  • 2024
    • Student Research Assistant Award, SUNY
  • 2021-2024
    • SUNY IDAP (Individual Development Awards Program)
  • 2021-2022
    • Presidential Research Award Grant, SUNY Plattsburgh
  • 2018-2021
    • NJIT Graduate Tuition, Fee, and Stipend Awards

Workshops & Training

  • 2023 - 2025

    Facilitator, Evidence-Based Decision Making Training

    Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH), Plattsburgh, NY
    • Executive management education workshops on evidence-based decision making.
  • 2023

    Facilitator

    Society of North American Scholars (SNAS)
    • Data Visualization & Decision Trees

Selected Talks

  • Mar 2026

    Guest Lecture: Real-World Sequential Decisions Under Uncertainty

    University of Arkansas, INEG 5140V - Stochastic Optimization
    • From Stochastic Programming to Reinforcement Learning
  • Nov 2025

    Got Data? Series Talk

    SUNY Plattsburgh, NY
    • Continuous, Explainable Retention Architecture: Predicting and Preventing Student Dropouts
  • Oct 2025

    INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025

    Atlanta, GA, United States
    • Optimizing Surveillance and Management of Round Goby Invasion in Lake Champlain
  • Oct 2025

    SNAS Annual Meeting 2025

    Society of North American Scholars, Fairleigh Dickinson University
    • From Sip to Signal: Computational Analysis of FDA Beverage Adverse Event Reports to Inform Regulatory Modernization
  • Oct 2024

    INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024 (Invited Session Chair)

    Seattle, WA, United States
    • Optimization Approaches to Enhancing Biodiversity
  • Apr 2024

    Guest Lecture: Reinforcement Learning for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems

    Virginia Tech