People

Charles Nicholson
Director of the Data Science and Analytics Institute; Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Areas: ISE, DSA

Research Interests:
Operations research/management, science mathematical programming, metaheuristic and evolutionary search, network flows, and applications of data mining.

Ph.D., Operations Research, Southern Methodist University
M.S., Decision Technologies, University of North Texas

cnicholson@ou.edu
CEC, Rm. 116H
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Katelyn Scott-Grubb

Senior Student Program Coordinator

katelyn.scott-grubb@ou.edu 
datascience@ou.edu


(405) 325-6417
Felgar Hall, Rm. 213
865 Asp Ave., Norman, OK  73019
 

Randa Shehab
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development; Nettie Vincent Boggs Professor; Previous Director of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2006-2016); Founding Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the Data Science and Analytics Institute (2014-2023)

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma

rlshehab@ou.edu
(405) 325-4277
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Areas: Industrial Systems and Engineering, Engineering, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests:
Engineering education, cognitive ergonomics, human-system integration, transportation human factors, human factors of special populations
 

Sridhar Radhakrishnan
Interim Associate Dean for Partnerships for the Gallogly College of Engineering (2022-2023); Professor and Director in the School of Computer Science; Professor and Founding Co-Director of the Data Science and Analytics Institute (2014-2023) 

sridhar@ou.edu
(405) 325-2319
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Areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests:
Design, implementation and analysis of network protocols and algorithms for broadband, wireless, and mobile networks; IoT and SDN development; high performance computing
 

Kash Barker
John A. Myers Professor, David L. Boren Professor, Graduate Liaison

Ph.D., Systems Engineering, University of Virginia 
M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma

kashbarker@ou.edu
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Areas: ISE and DSA

Research Interests:
Resilient networks, supply chains, Interdependent systems, Risk and decision analytics, Systems engineering for societal good
 

Matthew Beattie
Adjunct Professor

Ph.D., Engineering, University of Oklahoma

mjbeattie@ou.edu
Research Gate Webpage

Areas: Polytechnic Institute and DSA; Data Visualization; Professional Practice

Research Interests: Applied Artificial Intelligence
 

Doga Demirel
Associate Professor in Computer Science

Ph.D. in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Computer Science, B.Sc. in Computer Science

doga@ou.edu
(405) 325-4042
Personal Website

Areas: School of Computer Science

Research Interests: Design, development, and validation of surgical simulators, Interactive Simulations, Extended Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Haptics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
 

Dimitrios Diochnos
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

diochnos@ou.edu
325-2978 | Devon Energy Hall, Room 230
Personal Website  

Areas: Computer Science, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Machine learning, randomized search heuristics, algorithms and complexity
 

Sudarshan Dhall
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science; Professor Emeritus, DSA

Ph.D., Systems and Security, University of South Florida
M.S., Communication and Information Systems, Henan Polytechnic University

shangqing@ou.edu; sdhall@ou.edu
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Areas: CS and DSA

Research Interests: Novel mobile system design, network science, mobile and network security, machine learning for network and security applications. Parallel and distributed computing, graph algorithms, and operating systems.
 

Jorge A. Duarte
Adjunct Lecturer, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, The University of Oklahoma
M.Sc., Data Science & Analytics, The University of Oklahoma
B.Sc., Systems Engineering, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia

jduarte@ou.edu
(405)-325-6483

Areas: Data Science and Analytics, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO)

Research interests: Applied Machine Learning; Predictive Modeling; Data‑Driven Research and Applications; High‑Performance Computing; AI/ML Applications for Hydrology, Weather, and Climate; Hydroinformatics; Data Analytics; Internet of Things (IoT); Telecommunications; Software Defined Radio (SDR).

David Ebert
Professor of CS and ECE Gallogly Chair #3; Associate VP of Research and Partnerships; Director, Data Institute for Societal Challenges

Ph.D., Computer Science, The Ohio State University
M.S., Computer Science, The Ohio State University

ebert@ou.edu
(405) 325-4275

Areas: ECE, CS, DSA

Research Interests: Visual analytics, human-computer teaming, trustable AI, fundamental data science advances with targeted impact in energy and climate resiliency and sustainability, defense and security, health and digital humanities.
 

Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani
Assistant Professor at School of Biomedical Engineering

Ph.D., Systems Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton

fzamani@ou.edu
(405) 325-6246
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Areas: Biomedical Engineering, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Network neuroscience, Network science, Computational Neuroscience
 

Andrew Fagg
Presidential Associates Presidential Professor and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California
M.S., Computer Science, University of Southern California

andrewhfagg@gmail.com
(405) 325-8606
Lab Website

Areas: CS, Bioengineering, DSA

Research Interests: Machine learning, robotics, computational neuroscience, brain-machine interfaces and interactive art
 

Brian Fiedler
Professor Emeritus of Meteorology, Adjunct Professor in DSA

bfiedler@ou.edu
Personal Website

Areas: Meteorology and DSA

Research Interests: Programming for Meteorology, Information Technology Skills, Weather Simulation With Computers, Climate and Renewable Energy
 

Jonathan Fox
Instructor

jon.fox@ou.edu

Areas: DSA

Research Interests: DSA 5061 Python for DSA-fundamental principles of Object-Oriented Programming and their application in data science and analytics.

 

Pallab Ghosh
Associate Professor, Department of Economics; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics

Ph.D. in Economics, Syracuse University
M.S. in Quantitative Economics, Indian Statistical Institute

pallab.ghosh@ou.edu
Personal Website

Areas: Economics, DSA

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Econometrics, and Development Economics
 

M. Soheil Hemmati
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Florida

soheil.hemmati@ou.edu
Bio Webpage

Areas: ISE

Research Interests: Mathematical optimization theory and its applications in medical decision making and cyber-physical-social systems
 

Andrés González Huertas
Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering

Ph.D. in Engineering, Universidad de los Andes
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Rice University

andres.gonzalez@ou.edu
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Areas: ISE and DSA

Research Interests: Modeling and optimizing cyber-physical-social systems.  Measuring and optimizing resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks.  Developing decentralized and distributed control and optimization models
 

Le Gruenwald
Dr. David W. Franke Professor and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor

Ph.D., Computer Science, Southern Methodist University
M.S., Computer Science, University of Houston

ggruenwald@ou.edu
(405) 325-3498
Personal Website

Areas: CS and DSA

Research Interests: Database Management, Information Privacy and Security. Mobile and distributed databases, multimedia databases, real-time databases, object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and data mining
 

Kasun Gunasooriya
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
M.Eng. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore 

kasun.gunasooriya@ou.edu
(405) 325-3518
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Areas: School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering; Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Computational Catalysis, Kinetic Modeling, High-throughput (HT) Computations, Machine Learning, Material Design and Discovery for Sustainable Energy Applications (Water Electrolyzers, Fuel Cells, CO2 conversion to useful products, Ammonia production, etc)
 

Golnaz Habibi
Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Ph.D., Computer Science, Rice University
M.S., Electrical and Control Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran

golnaz@ou.edu 
Lab Website

Areas: CS and DSA

Research Interests:  Robotics, autonomous driving, computer vision, multi-agent systems, machine learning, reinforcement learning, autonomous control and navigation systems
 

Dean Hougen
CS Interim Director, Lloyd & Joyce Austin Presidential Professor, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Computer Science, Graduate Minor, Cognitive Science, The University of Minnesota

hougen@ou.edu
(405) 325-3150
Personal Website

Areas: CS and DSA

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, robotics, machine learning, multi-agent systems, and knowledge-based systems
 

Ziho Kang
Associate Professor

Ph.D. Purdue University

Email: zihokang@ou.edu
Lab Website

Areas: Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research Interests: Human factors, Human-centered computing, Biometric data analytics, Eye tracking data analytics, Human-computer interaction, Virtual reality, Aerospace, Healthcare
 

Sina Khanmohammadi
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Systems Science, State University of New York at Binghamton

sinakhan@ou.edu
(405) 325-1792
Lab Website

Areas: Computer Science

Research Interests: Neural Data Science, Neural Dynamics, Network Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Signal Processing
 

Myongjin Kim
Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Economics, Boston University

mjkim@ou.edu
Personal Website

Areas: Economics

Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Network and Welfare Analysis, Applied Econometrics   
 

Pierre Kirstetter
Professor

Ph.D. Grenoble Alpes University

pierre.kirstetter@ou.edu
405-325-6092
Personal Website

Areas: School of Meteorology, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science.  Faculty member with the Advanced Radar Research Center and an affiliate of the National Severe Storms Laboratory here in Norman. 

Research Interests: Precipitation processes, variability, and microphysics, Extreme precipitation and flood events, Radar and satellite remote sensing, Radar Meteorology - Radar Hydrology, Remote sensing of atmospheric water vapor for tropical and subtropical climates, Hydrometeorology – Applied mathematics – Statistics – Geostatistics.
 

Naveen Kumar
Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems (MIS) division at the Price College of Business

Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle

naveen.kumar@ou.edu
(405) 325-3565

Areas: MIS, DSA

Research Interests: Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence
 

Aikaterini Kyprioti
Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering and Environmental Science

PhD from University of Notre Dame

akypriot@ou.edu   
(405) 325-5911

Areas: School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Data Science and Analytics Institute, Civil engineering, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, computational statistics, resilience engineering

Research Interests:  Efficient coastal hazard risk estimation and mitigation, infrastructure reliability and sustainability assessments, improvement of community level structural resiliency against natural hazards, multi-hazard risk assessment, development of efficient data-driven tools using computational statistics for solving engineering problems
 

S. Lakshmivarahan
George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science

varahan@ou.edu
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Research Interests: Dynamic Data Assimilation, Big Data Analytics, Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Parallel Computation
 

Chao Lan
Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas

clan@ou.edu
(405)325-5735
Personal Website

Areas: CS, DSA

Research Interests:  Machine learning, algorithmic ethics and anomaly detection
 

Yifu Li
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech

liyifu@ou.edu

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Areas: ISE, DSA

Research Interests:  Data-driven and Multi-modality Modeling, Spectral Theory-based Graph AI, Natural Language Processing
 

Anindya Maiti
Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University M.S., Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University

am@ou.edu
(405) 325-4951
Personal Website

Areas: CS, DSA

Research Interests: Privacy and Security, micromobility and urban planning, cyber-physical systems, Information Assurance, Network Security, Blockchains, Machine and Deep Learning, artificial intelligence
 

Pankhuri Malhotra
Assistant Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management

Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Marketing, Northwestern University
Ph.D. in Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago

pmal@ou.edu
(405) 325-3561
Personal Website

Areas: Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Computational Social Sciences, Network Theory, Creator Economy, Graph-based Recommender systems
 

Marmar Moussa
Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut

marmar.moussa@ou.edu
(405) 325-5427
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Areas: CS, DSA

Research Interests: Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Computational Genomics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Single Cell Omics, and Cancer Immunomics
 

Sanjana Mudduluru
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Oklahoma
M.S. in Data Science & Analytics, University of Oklahoma

sanjana@ou.edu
(405) 325-5427
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Areas: Computer Science, Data Science & Analytics

Research Interests: Biomedical image processing, computer vision, deep learning
 

Chongle Pan
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma

Ph.D., 2006, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Email: cpan@ou.edu
Phone:  (405) 325-2972

Lab Website

Areas: Computer Science, Microbiology, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Proteomics, Environmental Microbiomes, Human Microbiomes, Prebiotics and Probiotics, Bioinformatics, medical informatics, explainable machine learning, computer vision, parallel computing, data science.
 

Jin-Song Pei
Associate Professor, CEES; Graduate Faculty Member (M3), ECE; Graduate Faculty Member (RM4), DSA

Ph.D., Columbia University

jspei@ou.edu

ResearchGate Webpage 

Areas: CEES, ECE, DSA

Research Interests: Nonlinear Dynamics, Hysteresis Modeling, Interpretable Machine Learning, Memristors, Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Talayeh Razzaghi
Assistant Professor of School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Analytics Institute

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Central Florida

talayeh.razzaghi@ou.edu
Profile Webpage

Areas: Industrial Systems and Engineering and Data Science and Analytics Institute

Research Interests: Machine learning with imperfect data, health disparities, disease risk stratification and outcome prediction, AI-based community health monitoring and control, predictive analytics with applications in cyber-physical systems and manufacturing

Byeong-Min Roh
Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University,
M.S., Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
B.S., Manufacturing Systems & Design Engineering, Northumbria University at Newcastle, U.K.,
B.S., Manufacturing Systems & Design Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology

roh@ou.edu
(405) 325-3721
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Areas: ISE, DSAI

Research Interests: Advanced manufacturing, In-situ quality assurance, complex systems, network science, ontology, swarm Intelligence
 

Wayne Stewart
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Email: wayne.s.stewart@ou.edu
Website: https://math.ou.edu/

Areas: Mathematics and Statistics, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Introduction to R, Advanced R, Bayesian Statistics, Applied Statistical Methods, Applied Regression Analysis, Advanced Applied Statistics
 

Theodore Trafalis
Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University; M.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Email: ttrafalis@ou.edu
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Areas: ISE, DSA

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Optimization, Supply chains, Robust AI
 

Richard Veras
Assistant Professor for School of Computer Science

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

richard.m.veras@ou.edu

Areas: CS, DSA

Research Interests: Research in all facets of High Performance Computing (HPC) including code synthesis for performance, parallel algorithm design; crafting  libraries for computational linear algebra, signal processing, graph analytics; studying relationship between data and computer architecture, parallel hardware, accelerators, reconfigurable logic and distributed systems.
 

Doyle Yoon
Gaylord Family Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Ph.D. in University of Missouri

dyoon@ou.edu

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