Program Steering Committee
Dr. Zheng (Leslie) Chen
Dr. Hua (Julia) Fang
Dr. Scott Field
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
Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394B
Research
Research Interests
- Software for Mathematics Education
- Computer Graphics
- Scientific Computation
- Noncommutative Algebra
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Alfa Heryudono
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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Bo Dong
Associate Professor
Liberal Arts 394D
Research
Research Interests
- Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
- Finite Element Methods, Discontinuous Galerkin methods
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Donghui Yan
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394F
Research
Research Interests
- Statistics
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Data Science
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Firas Khatib
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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Hua Fang
Associate 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
Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 303A
Machine Intelligence and Data analytics (MIND) Lab
Research
Research Interests
- Transfer learning, and multi-modality recognition
- Social media analytics: kinship verification, occupation recognition
- Auto-encoder and deep feature learning
- Graph approximation and clustering
- Outlier detection and analysis
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Paul Bergstein
Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 302F
Research
Research Interests
- Database systems
- Information technology
- Object-oriented software engineering
508-999-9184pbergstein@umassd.edu
Ramprasad Balasubramanian
Vice Provost for Research & Academic Affairs
Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 314A
Research
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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Scott Field
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394C
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
Chancellor Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D
Research
Research Interests
- Numerical Analysis
- Scientific Computing
- Strong stability preserving methods
- Weighted essentially non-oscillatory methods
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Saeja Kim
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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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
508-999-8294shelley.zhang@umassd.edu
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
Associate 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
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E
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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