People Category: MADS Lead Faculty
Rei Sanchez-Arias
Teaching Assistant Professor and MADS Faculty Director
Research Areas:Data mining, machine learning algorithm development, numerical optimization, data science education
Shashank Srivastava
Lead Faculty, Master of Applied Data Science
Research Areas:Natural language processing, AI, machine learning; language grounding and pragmatics; neuro-symbolic methods; text analysis, latent variable models
Francesca Tripodi
Lead Faculty, Master of Applied Data Science
Research Areas:Social media, political partisanship, and democratic participation; patterns of gender inequality on Wikipedia
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
Ashok Krishnamurthy
Lead Faculty, Master of Applied Data Science and Director, Renaissance Computing Institute
Research Areas:data analytics with applications in health care and social science, high-end computing for modeling and simulation, advanced computational tools to improve industrial productivity through virtual product and process development, digital processing to extract information from images, audio and other signals
Junier Oliva
Lead Faculty, Master of Applied Data Science
Research Areas:Machine learning, artificial intelligence, nonparametric statistics, deep learning, statistical data mining, signal processing, graphical models, generative models, kernel methods, scalability, complex datasets, optimization, density estimation
Arcot Rajasekar
Lead Faculty, Master of Applied Data Science
Research Areas:Data grids, digital libraries, persistent archives and artificial intelligence.
Danielle Szafir
Lead Faculty, Master of Applied Data Science
Research Areas:Visualization, data analytics, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality