Yonas is a Lecturer of Decision Sciences in the School of Business. Yonas works mainly for the Business Analytics program and also teaches classes for the Finance and Economics program as directed by the program coordinators of the two programs. He has more than 10 years of teaching experience. After working at Collin College and teaching many courses in Mathematics and Economics, he started working at Dallas College to teach in those same fields. In 2018 he joined UNT Dallas, a move which he describes as life-changing. Yonas has a bachelor's degree in Economics, a two master's, one in Economics and another in Mathematical Sciences (specializing in Statistics), all from UT Dallas. Thanks to the professional development and learning opportunities at UNT System, Yonas is currently working on his PhD.
His research interests are machine learning, artificial ontellegince, business intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality. Yonas also has experience teaching 20 different courses in Business Analytics, Mathematics and Economics.