Dr. Wheeler has a PhD in criminal justice from SUNY Albany (2015), and has worked with police departments and different criminal justice agencies across the United States. During his graduate studies, he worked as a crime analyst at Troy, NY police department. Afterward, he was a professor of criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas, and was finally employed as a data scientist in the private sector. He currently has over 35 peer reviewed publications that have been cited over 1000 times. He started his firm, Crime De-Coder, to help police departments with data analytics and custom software. See for his work, and to get in touch if you are interested in his help tackling your own data science problems.