Aaron Stevens

Aaron Stevens is a Senior Lecturer at Boston University, with appointments in Computer Science, the Questrom School of Business, and the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. He teaches DX602 in the online Master’s in Data Science & AI program. Since 2004, he has been teaching programming and data analytics skills at Boston University, emphasizing practical applications, exploratory thinking, analyzing data, and addressing impactful problems.

Prior to Boston University, Aaron worked in industry as a software engineer, starting as an analyst at Andersen Consulting and then built telecommunications software at Cisco Systems. This was followed by nearly two decades of network security consulting in a university setting, building data processing tools for incident detection and reporting.

Aaron’s current favorite data science work comes out of his personal passion for running, having completed more than a hundred marathons and serving as an official pacer at races around the world. This has led to data analysis projects around race results from the Chicago, Berlin, London, and Boston marathons, building custom metrics from runners' split times and studying how well the Boston Marathon's qualifying standards work across age and gender groups. These projects shape his teaching philosophies, grounded in using programming and data analysis to address meaningful real-world questions.

Aaron earned a B.S. in Business and Computer Information Systems from Indiana University in 1998, an M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University in 2002, and an M.S. in Finance from Boston College in 2004.