Florida. His professional portfolio includes institutional effectiveness/assessment, grant evaluation, analytics related to student success, and system design. His passion is analyzing institutional data related to student academic factors, psycho-social factors collected using surveys, and demographics to uncover factors impacting student success that could be used in strategic decision making. Some of the current projects have an objective of finding differences among the FTIC and Transfer student population at UCF with respect to student success and engagement metrics, factors impacting retention, graduation and time to graduation. Mr. Nair holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering (1997) and couple of graduate degrees-Masters in Industrial Engineering (2001) and Business Administration (2012) from the University of Central Florida. Currently he is working on getting his Doctorate in Education-Measurement, Methodology, and Analysis track.