People Category: Faculty
Tarek Zikry
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:Dimensionality reduction, statistical machine learning, computational biology, precision medicine
Wai Tong (Louis) Fan
Associate Professor
Research Areas:Probability theory and applications, stochastic modeling in population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics and atmospheric sciences
Alexander Tropsha
Adjunct Professor
Research Areas:computer-assisted drug design, cheminformatics, computational toxicology, materials informatics, structural bioinformatics, biomedical knowledge graph mining
Thomas Hofweber
Professor
Research Areas:metaphysics, the philosophy of language, the foundations of artificial intelligence
Shahar Kovalsky
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:optimization, geometry, computer graphics and vision, machine learning and its applications in biology and medicine
Iain Carmichael
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:Computational pathology, deep learning for medical imaging, multimodal data analysis, natural language processing for clinical notes, high resolution tissue imaging data (e.g. digital pathology, spatial transcriptomics, multiplex immunoflorecence), precision medicine/translational AI algorithm development for cancer and transplant diseases, open-source software
Dan Kessler
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:statistical analysis of networks, post-selective inference, high-dimensional statistics, applications involving human neuroimaging, computational and cognitive neuroscience, high performance computing
Justin Sola
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:gun ownership, trends in social research, the interaction of inequality with the criminal justice system
Chudi Zhong
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:machine learning, optimization, human-model interaction
Neil S. Gaikwad
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:AI ethics; human-AI value alignment for societal decision-making; human-computer interaction; computational sustainability; AI policy and governance
Lina Montoya
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:causal inference, precision health/policy, (optimal) dynamic treatment regimes, sequential multiple assignment randomized trials, semiparametric efficient estimation, adaptive designs
Rei Sanchez-Arias
Teaching Assistant Professor and MADS Faculty Director
Research Areas:Data mining, machine learning algorithm development, numerical optimization, data science education
Melissa Haendel
Professor
Research Areas:Semantic engineering, ontologies and terminologies, knowledge graphs, Real-World Data analytics, computable phenotyping, rare disease genetics, model organism and human genotype-phenotype correlations.
Youzuo Lin
Associate Professor
Research Areas:physics-informed machine learning, deep learning, computational methods, and their applications in computational imaging, signal and image analysis
Jack Snoeyink
Professor
Research Areas:Computational geometry; algorithms for geographical information systems and structural biology; geometric modeling and computation; algorithms and data structures; theory of computation
Steve Marron
Professor
Research Areas:statistics, data science and machine learning, with a particular emphasis on gaining simultaneous insights from diverse data types, including genomics, genetics, imaging and demographics
Can Chen
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:control theory, network science, tensor algebra, numerical analysis, data science, machine learning, deep learning, hypergraph learning, data analysis, computational biology
Keriayn Smith
Associate Professor
Research Areas:RNA biology, noncoding RNAs, gene editing, bioinformatics, data analytics, stem cell biology, epigenetics
Anita Crescenzi
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:impact of time constraints and time pressure on the process and outcomes of exploratory information-seeking; information search in support of decision-making; metacognitive regulation in information search; designing and evaluating search systems provide better support for learning, problem-solving and decision-making in exploratory or collaborative information-seeking; FAIR data practices and data search
Santiago Olivella
Associate Professor
Research Areas:statistical models, particularly Bayesian graphical models; machine learning
Hsun-Ta Hsu
Associate Professor
Research Areas:Homelessness, Health Promotion, Firearm Violence, Housing Prioritization and Matching, Social Determinism of Health, Neighborhood Environment Observation
Yifei Lou
Associate Professor
Research Areas:Image processing, sparse signal recovery, numerical analysis, optimization algorithms
Alex McAvoy
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:evolutionary dynamics, game theory, multi-agent learning, networks
Harlin Lee
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:Networks, manifolds, optimal transport, nonconvex optimization, statistical signal processing, machine learning, health care
Richard Marks
Professor of the Practice
Research Areas:AR/VR, machine learning, context-aware systems
David Adalsteinsson
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies; MADS Lead Faculty
Research Areas:biology, interface problems, spatial modeling, algorithm development, creating tools for scientific computing and visualization
Amarjit Budhiraja
Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs
Research Areas:large deviations, stochastic control, stochastic differential games, stochastic networks, stochastic partial differential equations, random graphs, stochastic numerics, nonlinear filtering
Stan Ahalt
Dean
Research Areas:Signal, image, and video processing, high-performance scientific and industrial computing, pattern recognition applied to national security problems, high-productivity, domain-specific languages
Terry Magnuson
Chief Research and Strategy Officer
Research Areas:mammalian genetics, genomics, chromatin remodelers, epigenetics, development, mouse models of human disease
Jay Aikat
Vice Dean
Research Areas:Experimental methods and models in networking research and education, measurement and modeling of Internet traffic, protocol benchmarking, Internet traffic generation, wireless networks, congestion control and active queue management, data science