Saeede Eftekhari teaches business analytics in the undergraduate program. She joins the Freeman School from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she earned her PhD in management sciences and systems. Eftekhari's research focuses on healthcare network analytics and healthcare information technology, using methodological techniques including econometric modeling, social networks analysis and data mining to analyze healthcare management problems and develop cost-effective solutions. She has published her research in ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS). She holds a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in Iran.