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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

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CO-FOUNDERS OF DSAI

Randa Shaheb.

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

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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

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DSAI AFFILIATED FACULTY

Ben Bigelow.
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

Areas: ISE and DSA

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


kashbarker@ou.edu
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Matthew Beattie.
Matthew Beattie

Adjunct Professor


Ph.D., Engineering, University of Oklahoma

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

Research Interests: Applied Artificial Intelligence


mjbeattie@ou.edu
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Jie Chao.
Jie Chao

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Utah

Areas: Computer Science, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Dialogue and Discourse, Structured Prediction, Trustworthy AI for Education and Healthcare


jie.cao@ou.edu
Research Website

Doga Demirel.
Doga Demirel

Associate Professor in Computer Science

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

(405) 325-4042

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


doga@ou.edu

Personal Website

Sudarshan Dhall.
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

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.


shangqing@ou.edusdhall@ou.edu
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 Dimitrios Diochnos.
Dimitrios Diochnos

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Areas: Computer Science, Data Science and Analytics

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


diochnos@ou.edu
325-2978 | Devon Energy Hall, Room 230
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Jorge A. Duarte.
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

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).


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

David Ebert.
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

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.


ebert@ou.edu
(405) 325-4275

Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani.
Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani

Assistant Professor at School of Biomedical Engineering

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

Areas: Biomedical Engineering, Data Science and Analytics

Research Interests: Network neuroscience, Network science, Computational Neuroscience


fzamani@ou.edu
(405) 325-6246
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Andrew Fagg.
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

Areas: CS, Bioengineering, DSA

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


andrewhfagg@gmail.com
(405) 325-8606
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Song Fang.
Song Fang

Associate Professor 

Ph.D., University of South Florida

Areas: CS, DSA

Research Interests: Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Privacy; Wireless and Mobile System Security; Mobile Computing; Application of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity


songf@ou.edu
(405) 325-3536

Brian Fiedler.
Brian Fiedler

Professor Emeritus of Meteorology, Adjunct Professor in DSA

Areas: Meteorology and DSA

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


bfiedler@ou.edu
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Jonathan Fox

Instructor

Areas: DSA

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


jon.fox@ou.edu

Song Fang.
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

Areas: Economics, DSA

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Econometrics, and Development Economics


pallab.ghosh@ou.edu
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Le Gruenwald.
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

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


ggruenwald@ou.edu
(405) 325-3498
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Kasun Gunasooriya.
Kasun Gunasooriya

Assistant Professor

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

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)


kasun.gunasooriya@ou.edu
(405) 325-3518
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Golnaz Habibi.
Golnaz Habibi

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

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

Areas: CS and DSA

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


golnaz@ou.edu 
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Brian Fiedler.
M. Soheil Hemmati

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Florida

Areas: ISE

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


soheil.hemmati@ou.edu
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Andrés González Huertas.
Andrés González Huertas

Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering

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

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


andres.gonzalez@ou.edu
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Dean Hougen.
Dean Hougen

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

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

Areas: CS and DSA

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


hougen@ou.edu
(405) 325-3150
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Ziho Kang.
Ziho Kang

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Purdue University

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


zihokang@ou.edu
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Sina Khanmohammadi.
Sina Khanmohammadi

Assistant Professor

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

Areas: Computer Science

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


sinakhan@ou.edu
(405) 325-1792
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Myongjin Kim.
Myongjin Kim

Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Economics, Boston University

Areas: Economics

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


mjkim@ou.edu
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Ziho Kang.
Pierre Kirstetter

Professor

Ph.D. Grenoble Alpes University

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.


pierre.kirstetter@ou.edu
405-325-6092
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Naveen Kumar.
Naveen Kumar

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

Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle

Areas: MIS, DSA

Research Interests: Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence


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

Aikaterini Kyprioti.
Aikaterini Kyprioti

Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering and Environmental Science

Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame

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


akypriot@ou.edu   
(405) 325-5911

S. Lakshmivarahan.
S. Lakshmivarahan

George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science

Research Interests: Dynamic Data Assimilation, Big Data Analytics, Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Parallel Computation


varahan@ou.edu
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Chao Lan.
Chao Lan

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas

Areas: CS, DSA

Research Interests:  Machine learning, algorithmic ethics and anomaly detection


clan@ou.edu
(405)325-5735
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Yifu Li.
Yifu Li

Assistant Professor

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

Areas: ISE, DSA

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


liyifu@ou.edu
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Anindya Maiti.
Anindya Maiti

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

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

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


am@ou.edu
(405) 325-4951
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Pankhuri Malhotra.
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

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

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


pmal@ou.edu
(405) 325-3561
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Marmar Moussa.
Marmar Moussa

Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science

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

Areas: CS, DSA

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


marmar.moussa@ou.edu
(405) 325-5427
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Sanjana Mudduluru.
Sanjana Mudduluru

Assistant Professor

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

Areas: Computer Science, Data Science & Analytics

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


sanjana@ou.edu
(405) 325-5427
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Chongle Pan.
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

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.


cpan@ou.edu
Phone:  (405) 325-2972
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Jin-Song Pei.
Jin-Song Pei

Associate Professor, CEES; Graduate Faculty Member (M3), ECE; Graduate Faculty Member (RM4), DSA

Ph.D., Columbia University

Areas: CEES, ECE, DSA

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


jspei@ou.edu
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Ghulam Jilani Quadri.
Ghulam Jilani Quadri

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Postdoctoral Research Associate - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida

Areas: CS and DSA

Research Interests: Visualization and Graphics, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, Perception and Cognition Science, Explainable ML and AI Models, Human-Computer Teaming, Information Accessibility, Data Science, Health and Humanities: Visualization for Social Good


quadri@ou.edu

Talayeh Razzaghi.
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

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


talayeh.razzaghi@ou.edu
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Netra Regmi.
Netra Regmi

Hazards Geologist, Oklahoma Geological Survey

PhD, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Areas: Geoscience, DSA

Research Interests: 1) Hillslope process and hazards; 2) Soil-geomorphic evolution; 3) Terrain mapping and terrain mechanics; 4) Machine learning


netraregmi@ou.edu
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S. Lakshmivarahan.
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

Areas: ISE, DSAI

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


roh@ou.edu
(405) 325-3721
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Wayne Stewart.
Wayne Stewart

Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

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


wayne.s.stewart@ou.edu
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Theodore Trafalis.
Theodore Trafalis

Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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

Areas: ISE, DSA

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


ttrafalis@ou.edu
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Richard Veras.
Richard Veras

Assistant Professor for School of Computer Science

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

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.


richard.m.veras@ou.edu

Doyle Yoon.
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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