Dr. Ermal Toto is the Director for Scientific Data, Applications and Web Development with Academic and Research Computing. He is a WPI alumnus with a MBA (’25) and  PhD in Computer Science (’21). Prior to the current position Ermal has worked as a Data Scientist, Software Engineer, and Network Administrator. His research interests include emotion and mood detection using machine learning, AI and data mining. A list of publications can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=opJQ2k0AAAAJ&hl=en

Poets&Quants
2025 Best & Brightest Online MBA: Ermal Toto, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Poets & Quants, a news organization that covers business education, featured 2025 WPI online MBA graduate Ermal Toto as one of this year’s best and brightest online MBA students. The recognition highlights students from the world’s top online MBA programs who demonstrate achievement and leadership potential. In this article, Toto, director of scientific data, applications and web development in WPI Information Technology Services, describes how he benefitted from the online MBA program.

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