Riyaz Sikora is writing a letter of recommendation for Hong Lu. Sikora was Hong Lu's professor for a graduate level Data Mining course at the University of Texas at Arlington. Hong Lu earned an A in the course and impressed Sikora with her ability to apply key concepts from class to assignments and projects. Sikora also noted that Hong Lu was easy to work with as a team member on group projects. Overall, Sikora rated Hong Lu among the top 10% of graduate students he has taught in over 10 years.

1. Department of Information Systems & OM Riyaz Sikora
College of Business Associate Professor
523 Business Building +1 817-272-5397
P.O. Box 19437 rsikora@uta.edu
Arlington, TX 76019 http://omega.uta.edu/~rsikora/
May 17, 2016
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing with great pleasure to recommend Ms. Hong Lu.
I have known Hong as a student in our graduate program (MS) in Information Systems
here at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She was a student in my Business
Data Mining (INSY 5339) course during Spring 2016 semester.
Hong did very well in my course, earning an A grade. INSY 5339 is an advanced elective
course in Data Mining in which the students have to work with real data sets on both
individual assignments and group term project.
I was quite impressed with Hong’s ability to integrate and assimilate key concepts learned
in the class, and apply them to the class assignments and projects. Hong is easy to get
along with and was a good team player on the group project. I would rate Hong as being
in the top 10% of the graduate students I have taught at UTA for the past 10+ years. I
found her to be a hard working student always eager to learn about new techniques and
methods. She brings with her a wealth of technical knowledge and experience.
Sincerely,
Riyaz Sikora
Riyaz Sikora