Faculty
Program Steering Committee
Dr. Zheng (Leslie) Chen
Dr. Scott Field
Dr. Alfa Heryudono
Dr. Amir Akhavan Masoumi
Dr. Ashok Patel
Dr. Ming (Daniel) Shao
Dr. Haiping Xu
Dr. Donghui Yan
Faculty
Faculty in the interdisciplinary Data Science program represent a variety of academic fields and research interests.
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Amir Akhavan Masoumi
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 324D
Research
Research interests
- Complex Systems
- Cognitive Science
- Cryptography
- Chaos Theory
- Data Science
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Adam Hausknecht, PhD
Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394B
Research
Research interests
- Software for mathematics education
- Computer graphics
- Scientific computation
- Noncommutative algebra
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Alfa Heryudono, PhD
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394H
Research
Research interests
- Radial basis function methods
- Spectral and pseudospectral methods
- Tear film dynamics
- Numerical conformal mapping
- Mathematical problems in industry
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Ashokkumar Patel
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 302B
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Bo Dong, PhD
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D
Research
Research interests
- Numerical analysis and scientific computing
- Finite element methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods
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Collin Capano
Professional Technician I
College of Engineering
Science & Engineering 208B
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Cheng Wang, PhD
Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394G
Research
Research interests
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical PDEs
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Donghui Yan, PhD
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394F
Research
Research interests
- Statistics
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- Data science
- High dimensional statistical inference
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Firas Khatib, PhD
Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 307A
Research
Research interests
- Bioinformatics
- Citizen Science
- Computational Biology
- Distributed Computing
- Protein Structure Determination/Prediction & Design
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Gary Davis, PhD
Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E
Research
Research interests
- Memory systems
- DEs
- Time series
- Mathematics education
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Hua Fang, PhD
Professor
Computer & Information Science
Violette Research 220B
Computational Statistics and Data Science Lab Website
Research
Research interests
- Machine learning/ statistical learning/ pattern recognition
- Computational statistics
- Behavioral trajectory pattern recognition in longitudinal studies
- Wireless health
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Haiping Xu, PhD
Professor / Chairperson
Computer & Information Science
Dion 302G
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
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Iren Valova, PhD
Associate Dean / Professor
College of Engineering
Dion 326
Dr. Iren Valova’s Research Website
Research
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Brain modeling
- Data mining
- Expert Systems
- Image processing
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Ming Shao, PhD
Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 303A
Machine Intelligence and Data analytics (MIND) Lab
Research
Research interests
- Predictive modeling
- Adversarial machine learning
- Continual and incremental machine learning
- Robust and multi-view representation learning
- Health informatics
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Ramprasad Balasubramanian, PhD
Interim Provost/Vice Chancellor
Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 008B
Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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Scott Field, PhD
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E
Research
Research interests
- Gravitational wave data science
- Discontinuous Galerkin methods
- Large-scale Scientific Computation
- Computational general relativity and fluid dynamics
- Numerical analysis
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Sigal Gottlieb, PhD
Chancellor Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D
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
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Saeja Kim, PhD
Professor / Chairperson
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 395A
Research
Research interests
- Computational algebra
- Edge detection
- Topological Data Analysis (TDA)
- Inverse problems
- Mathematics education
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Vadapalli Vijay Subrahmanya Varma, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E
Research
Research interests
- Gravitational waves
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Xindong Zhang
Visiting Scholar
Accounting & Finance
Charlton College of Business 226
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Yuchou Chang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 317B
Dr. Yuchou Chang’s Research Website
Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Pattern Recognition
- Biomedical Imaging
- Intelligent Robotics
- Brain-Computer Interface
- Statistical Signal Processing
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Yanlai Chen, PhD
Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394A
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
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Zheng Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394C
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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