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Faculty

Program Steering Committee

Dr. Zheng (Leslie) Chen
Dr. Alfa Heryudono
Dr. Amir Akhavan Masoumi
Dr. Ashok Patel 
Dr. Yuchou Chang
Dr. Vijay Varma
Dr. Haiping Xu
Dr. Donghui Yan

Faculty

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

Amir Akhavan Masoumi
Amir Akhavan Masoumi

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 324D

508-910-6895
aakhavanmasoumi@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Complex Systems
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cryptography
  • Chaos Theory
  • Data Science
Ramprasad Balasubramanian
Ramprasad Balasubramanian

Provost / Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 315

508-999-8069
r.bala@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Mobile Robotics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Motion Detection and Tracking
  • Pattern Recognition
Yuchou Chang
Yuchou Chang

Assistant Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 317B

508-999-8475
ychang1@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Imaging
  • Intelligent Robotics
  • Brain-Computer Interface
  • Statistical Signal Processing
Yanlai Chen
Yanlai Chen

Chief Research Officer

Office of Research & Innovation
Foster Administration 008B

508-999-8827
yanlai.chen@umassd.edu

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
Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394C

508-999-9236
zchen2@umassd.edu

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
Gary Davis
Gary Davis

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E

508-999-8739
gdavis@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Memory systems
  • DEs
  • Time series
  • Mathematics education
Bo Dong
Bo Dong

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D

508-910-6616
bdong@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

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

Professor

Computer & Information Science
Violette Research 220B

508-910-6411
hfang2@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Machine learning/ statistical learning/ pattern recognition
  • Computational statistics
  • Behavioral trajectory pattern recognition in longitudinal studies
  • Wireless health
Scott Field

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E

508-999-8281
sfield@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave data science
  • Discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • Large-scale Scientific Computation
  • Computational general relativity and fluid dynamics
  • Numerical analysis
Sigal Gottlieb
Sigal Gottlieb

Chancellor Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394D

508-999-8205
sgottlieb@umassd.edu

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
Alfa Heryudono
Alfa Heryudono

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394H

508-999-8516
aheryudono@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Radial basis function methods
  • Spectral and pseudospectral methods
  • Tear film dynamics
  • Numerical conformal mapping
  • Mathematical problems in industry
Firas Khatib
Firas Khatib

Associate Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 307A

508-999-8265
fkhatib@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

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

Professor / Chairperson

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 395A

508-999-8325
skim@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

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

Associate Teaching Professor

Computer & Information Science
Dion 302B

508-999-9184
ashok.patel@umassd.edu

Iren Todorova Valova
Iren Valova

Associate Dean

College of Engineering
Dion 326

508-999-8502
iren.valova@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Brain modeling
  • Data mining
  • Expert Systems
  • Image processing
Vijay Varma
Vijay Varma

Assistant Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394E

508-999-8316
vvarma@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Gravitational waves
Cheng Wang
Cheng Wang

Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394G

508-999-8342
cwang1@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Numerical analysis
  • Numerical PDEs
Photograph of Haiping Xu
Haiping Xu

Professor / Chairperson

Computer & Information Science
Dion 302G

508-910-6427
hxu@umassd.edu

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
Donghui Yan
Donghui Yan

Associate Professor

Mathematics
Liberal Arts 394F

508-999-8746
dyan@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

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