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Faculty

Program Steering Committee

Dr. Zheng (Leslie) Chen
Dr. Alfa Heryudono
Dr. Amir Akhavan Masoumi
Dr. Ashok Patel 
Dr. Ming (Daniel) Shao
Dr. Vijay Varma
Dr. Haiping Xu
Dr. Donghui Yan

Faculty

Faculty in the interdisciplinary Data Science program represent a variety of academic fields and research interests.

Amir Akhavan Masoumi

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 324D

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Research

Research interests

  • Complex Systems
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cryptography
  • Chaos Theory
  • Data Science
Adam Hausknecht

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394B

Research Website

508-999-8322cjcwumpgejvBwocuuf0gfw

Research

Research interests

  • Software for mathematics education
  • Computer graphics
  • Scientific computation
  • Noncommutative algebra
Alfa Heryudono

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394H

Research Website

508-999-8516_fcpwsbmlm>sk_qqb,cbs

Research

Research interests

  • Radial basis function methods
  • Spectral and pseudospectral methods
  • Tear film dynamics
  • Numerical conformal mapping
  • Mathematical problems in industry
Ashokkumar Patel

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 302B

508-999-9184apatel38@umassd.edu

Bo Dong

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D

Research Website

508-910-6616`bmle>sk_qqb,cbs

Research

Research interests

  • Numerical analysis and scientific computing
  • Finite element methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods
Cheng Wang

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394G

Research Website

508-999-8342eycpi3Bwocuuf0gfw

Research

Research interests

  • Numerical analysis
  • Numerical PDEs

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394F

Research Website

508-999-8746bw_l>sk_qqb,cbs

Research

Research interests

  • Statistics
  • Machine learning
  • Data mining
  • Data science
  • High dimensional statistical inference
Firas Khatib

Associate Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 307A

Research Website

508-999-8265ejg`sha?tl`rrc-dct

Research

Research interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Citizen Science
  • Computational Biology
  • Distributed Computing
  • Protein Structure Determination/Prediction & Design
Gary Davis

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E

Research Website

508-999-8739b_\qdn;ph\nn_)`_p

Research

Research interests

  • Memory systems
  • DEs
  • Time series
  • Mathematics education
Hua Fang

Professor

Computer & Information Science
Violette Research 220B

Computational Statistics and Data Science Lab Website

508-910-6411kidqj5Cxpdvvg1hgx

Research

Research interests

  • Machine learning/ statistical learning/ pattern recognition
  • Computational statistics
  • Behavioral trajectory pattern recognition in longitudinal studies
  • Wireless health
Photograph of Haiping Xu

Professor / Chairperson

Computer & Information Science
Dion 302G

508-910-6427eur=rj^ppa+bar

Research

Research interests

  • Electronic Commerce, Internet Security, Web Services
  • Formal Methods, Model-Based Software Development
  • Mobile Agent Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), Intelligent Agents
  • Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Computing, Ubiquitous Computing
Photograph of Iren Todorova Valova

Associate Dean / Professor

College of Engineering
Dion 326

Dr. Iren Valova’s Research Website

508-999-8502ktgp0xcnqxcBwocuuf0gfw

Research

Research interests

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Brain modeling
  • Data mining
  • Expert Systems
  • Image processing
Ming Shao

Associate Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 303A

Machine Intelligence and Data analytics (MIND) Lab

508-910-6893ntibpAvnbtte/fev

Research

Research interests

  • Predictive modeling
  • Adversarial machine learning
  • Continual and incremental machine learning
  • Robust and multi-view representation learning
  • Health informatics
Ramprasad Balasubramanian

Provost / Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 315

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Research

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Mobile Robotics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Motion Detection and Tracking
  • Pattern Recognition

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E

Research Website

508-999-8281vilhogCxpdvvg1hgx

Research

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave data science
  • Discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • Large-scale Scientific Computation
  • Computational general relativity and fluid dynamics
  • Numerical analysis
Sigal Gottlieb

Chancellor Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D

Research Website

508-999-8205rfnsskhda?tl`rrc-dct

Research

Research interests

  • My research interests are numerical analysis and scientific computing. Specifically, I am interested in high-order numerical methods for simulation of hyperbolic PDEs with shocks.
  • WENO, spectral, and pseudo spectral methods, as well as strong stability preserving time discretizations.
  • Reduced basis methods for solving PDEs with many parameters.
  • Weighted essentially non-oscillatory methods
Saeja Kim

Professor / Chairperson

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 395A

Research Website

508-999-8325rjhl?tl`rrc-dct

Research

Research interests

  • Computational algebra
  • Edge detection
  • Topological Data Analysis (TDA)
  • Inverse problems
  • Mathematics education
Vijay Varma

Assistant Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E

508-999-8316tt_pk_>sk_qqb,cbs

Research

Research interests

  • Gravitational waves

Visiting Scholar

Accounting & Finance
Charlton College of Business 226

508-999-8444xzhang2@umassd.edu

Yuchou Chang

Assistant Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 317B

Dr. Yuchou Chang’s Research Website

508-999-8475xbg`mf0?tl`rrc-dct

Research

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Imaging
  • Intelligent Robotics
  • Brain-Computer Interface
  • Statistical Signal Processing
Yanlai Chen

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394A

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Research

Research interests

  • Numerical Analysis, scientific computing, computational partial differential equations
  • Dimension reduction, model order reduction, reduced order modeling
  • Uncertainty quantification, fractional-order partial differential equations
  • Data mining, machine learning, image processing, neural networks
  • high performance computing
Zheng Chen

Assistant Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394C

508-999-9236xafcl0>sk_qqb,cbs

Research

Research interests

  • Numerical analysis, scientific computing, high performance computing
  • Machine learning, image processing, neural networks
  • Kinetic problems, multi-scale computational methods
  • Numerical methods for problems with singularities
  • Uncertainty quantification, fractional-order partial differential equations
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