Data Science Research Center Members

 

• Anderson, Kurt Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Anshelevich, Elliot Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Design and analysis of algorithms, especially for large decentralized networks. Strategic agents in networks and algorithmic game theory; approximation algorithms.

 

• Barquera, Blanca Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology. Homepage.

 

• Bequette B., Wayne Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Bennett, Kristin Ph.D., Professor of Mathematical Sciences. Homepage.
Mathematical programming, optimization, machine learning, data mining, support vector machines, and applications of data mining to bioinformatics, cheminformatics, finance, science and engineering.

• Berman, Francine Ph.D., Professor and Vice President for Research. Homepage.
Cyberinfrastructure, data preservation and access, e-science, and grid and parallel computing.

 

• Bystroff, Christopher Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology. Homepage.
Bioinformatics; Markov models; protein structure prediction and design; molecular simulations.

 

• Carothers, Christopher Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Parallel and distributed systems; simulation; networking and real-time systems.

 

• Cutler, Barbara Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Computer graphics; geometry processing; algorithms; and design tools for architecture.

 

• Das, Sanmay Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Machine learning; computational finance and economics; multi-agent systems; social networks; information retrieval and biomedical informatics.

 

• Drineas, Petros Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Design and analysis of algorithms, in particular randomized and approximation algorithms; linear algebra algorithms and their applications in data mining.

 

• Embrechts, Mark Ph.D., Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Fox, Peter Ph.D., Professor, Tetherless World Constellation Chair. Homepage.
Semantic web, semantic e-science, data intensive science, virtual observatories, virtual organizations, data grids, high performance computing, collaborative science, sensor web, solar-terrestrial physics, solar variability.

 

• Gray, Wayne Ph.D., Professor and Acting Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Homepage.
Integrated cognitive systems, computational cognitive modeling, cognitive social science, cognitive engineering. Interested in basic and applied research that leads to understanding the interplay of natural interaction in routine human-human, human-machine, and human-information interactive behavior.

 

• Hendler, Jim Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Information Technology, Tetherless World Constellation Chair. Homepage.
Artificial intelligence, semantic web, web science, agent-based computing and high performance processing.

• Hsu K. Cheng Ph.D., Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Kar, Koushik Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Katz, Miriam Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences. Homepage.

 

• Kramer, Peter PhD., Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences. Homepage. 
Modeling transport in turbulent flows ; computer simulation of microphysiological systems, stochastic modeling in physics and biology; multiscale asymptotic methods; random field simulation; nonlinear wave turbulence

 

• Krishnamoorthy, Mukkai Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Programming environments; design and analysis of combinatorial algorithms; open source software development issues; performance issues in internet; analysis of web documents; network visualization.

 

• Luciano, Joanne Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.

 

• Magdon-Ismail, Malik Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Theory, algorithms and applications of computational learning systems; computational finance; bioinformatics, social and communication network analysis.

 

• Mayo, Bob MLS., Director of Libraries. Homepage.

 

• McGuinness, Deborah L. Ph.D., Professor, Tetherless World Constellation Chair. Homepage.

Semantic web, explanation of intelligent systems, semantically-enabled informatics, semantic eScience.

 

• Milanova, Ana Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Software engineering, programming languages, compilers, program analysis, software testing, verification, reliable software systems.

 

• Mitchell, John Ph.D., Professor of Mathematical Sciences; Professor of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems. Homepage.

 

• Newberg, Lee Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Algorithmic, statistical, and combinatorical approaches to molecular biology; currently including multiple sequence alignment, ancestral reconstruction of sequences, estimation of statistical significance, and computation of credibility / Bayesian confidence limits.

 

• Newberg Heidi Jo PhD., Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy. Homepage.

Understanding the structure of our own galaxy through using A stars as tracers of the galactic halo, and using photometrically determined metallicities of main sequence F-K stars to determine whether the thick disk is chemically distinct from the thin disk and galactic halo of our galaxy.

 

• Plopper, George Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology. Homepage.

 

• Radke, Rich Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Shephard, Mark Ph.D., Professor. Homepage.
Scientific computation; mesh generation;adaptive and parallel finite elements and multiscale methods.

 

• Sikdar, Biplab Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Simons L. Kenneth Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics. Homepage.

 

• Spear, Frank Ph.D., Chair and Professor Earth and Environmental Sciences. Homepage.

 

• Spooner, David Ph.D., Professor and Acting Dean of Science. Homepage.
Information security, computer science and information technology education.

 

• Stewart, Charles Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Computer vision; medical applications.

 

• Trinkle, Jeff Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Robotics, manufacturing automation, physics engines, human-machine interaction.

 

• Varela, Carlos Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Concurrent programming models and languages, adaptive scalable distributed computing, computational science applications.

 

• Wang, Chunyu MD., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology. Homepage.

 

• Watson, Bruce Ph.D., Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences. Homepage.

 

• Willemain R. Thomas Ph.D., Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Yazici, Birsen Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering. Homepage.

 

• Yener, Bόlent Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science and Director of Data Science Research Center. Homepage.
Computer, communication and biological networks, bioinformatics, security, combinatorial optimization.

 

• Zaki, Mohammed Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science. Homepage.
Data mining; machine learning; bioinformatics; complex graphs and networks; data science; high performance computing.