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Program Steering Committee

Dr. Zheng (Leslie) Chen
Dr. Scott Field
Dr. Ashok Patel 
Dr. Ming (Daniel) Shao
Dr. Iren Valova
Dr. Donghui Yan

Faculty

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

Adam Hausknecht

Adam
Hausknecht

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394B

Research Website

Research

Research interests

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

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Alfa Heryudono

Alfa
Heryudono

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394H

Research Website

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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Bo Dong

Bo
Dong

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D

Research Website

Research

Research interests

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

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Cheng Wang

Cheng
Wang

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394G

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Numerical analysis
  • Numerical PDEs

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Donghui
Yan

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394F

Research Website

Research

Research interests

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

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Firas Khatib

Firas
Khatib

Associate Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 307A

Research Website

Research

Research interests

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

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Gary Davis

Gary
Davis

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Memory systems
  • DEs
  • Time series
  • Mathematics education

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Hua Fang

Hua
Fang

Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 317A

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

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

Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 302D

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

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

Ramprasad
Balasubramanian

Vice Chancellor

Office of Research & Innovation
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

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394C

Research Website

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

Sigal
Gottlieb

Chancellor Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D

Research Website

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

Saeja
Kim

Professor / Chairperson

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 395A

Research Website

Research

Research interests

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

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Shelley
Zhang

Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 302C

Dr. Shelley Zhang’s Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Agent control and reasoning under uncertainty
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Distributed systems
  • e-commerce
  • Intelligent agent architecture designing

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Yuchou Chang

Yuchou
Chang

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

Yanlai
Chen

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

Zheng
Chen

Assistant Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 396J

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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