Faculty

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Donghui Yan
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
dyan@umassd.edu
Interests: machine learning; applied statistics; data science; high dimensional statistical inference
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Haiping Xu
Professor
Computer and Information Science
hxu@umassd.edu
Interests: Distributed Computing, Cybersecurity, Deep Learning, Multi-Agent Systems
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Jianyi Jay Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
jwang@umassd.edu
Interests: AMO and computational physics
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Vijay Varma
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
vvarma@umassd.edu
Interests: Gravitational physics, scientific computing
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Cheng Wang
Associate Professor
Mathematics Department
cwang1@umassd.edu
Interests: numerical analysis of PDE; computational fluid dynamics
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Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
b.aghazadeh@umassd.edu
Interests: Fluid-Structure Interactions
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Sarah Caudill
Assistant Professor
Physics
scaudill@umassd.edu
Interests: Search algorithms for gravitational waves in LIGO and Virgo data coming from the coalescence of compact binary objects.
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Collin Capano
Adjunct Faculty
Math/Physics
ccapano@umassd.edu
Interests: HPC, Bayesian inference, Gravity
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John Buck
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
jbuck@umassd.edu
Interests: animal bioacoustics; information theory; signal processing; underwater acoustics
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Vanni Bucci (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Biology Department
vanni.bucci@umassd.edu
Interests: computational and systems biology; metagenomics; comparative genomics; microbial ecology; individual-based modeling
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Ramprasad Balasubramanian
Professor
Computer and Information Science
rbalasubrama@umassd.edu
Interests: computer vision; image processing; artificial intelligence; autonomous mobile robotics and HCI
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Alireza Asadpoure
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
aasadpoure@umassd.edu
Interests:
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Xiaofei Jia
Assistant Professor‌
Chemistry & Biochemistry
xjia@umassd.edu
Interests: X-ray crystallography, cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM), HIV-1 structural biology
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Mazdak Tootkaboni
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
mtootkaboni@umassd.edu
Interests: stochastic computational mechanics; uncertainty quantification; data-driven stochastic models; modeling heterogeneous materials
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Amit Tandon
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
atandon@umassd.edu
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; fluid physics; mathematical biology; physical oceanography
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Maoyuan Sun (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
smaoyuan@umassd.edu
Interests:
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Ming Daniel Shao
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
mshao@umassd.edu
Interests:
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Akil Narayan (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
akil@sci.utah.edu
Interests: scientific computing; numerical analysis; uncertainty quantification; approximation methods
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Maricris Mayes
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
mmayes@umassd.edu
Interests: theoretical and computational chemistry; quantum chemistry; reaction dynamics and mechanisms; ab initio molecular dynamics; computational material science/nanoscience
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Hangjian Ling
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
hling1@umassd.edu
Interests: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Collective Animal Behavior; Advanced Imaging
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Jun Li
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
jun.li@umassd.edu
Interests: Composite materials, Hierarchical materials and lightweight structures, Image-based (CT, MRI) multiscale modeling of biological materials
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David Koop (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
dkoop@umassd.edu
Interests: data science; visualization; provenance; scientific data management
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Saeja Kim
Professor
Mathematics Department
skim@umassd.edu
Interests: computational algebra and mathematics; applied mathematics; mathematics education
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Firas Khatib
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
fkhatib@umassd.edu
Interests: bioinformatics; citizen science; computational biology; protein structure determination/prediction & design; machine learning; molecular dynamics
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Alfa Heryudono
Associate Professor
Mathematics Department
aheryudono@umassd.edu
Interests: scientific computing; numerical methods for PDE; radial basis functions; pseudospectral methods; tear film dynamics
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Adam Hausknecht
Professor
Mathematics Department
ahausknecht@umassd.edu
Interests: computational mathematics
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Robert Fisher
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
rfisher1@umassd.edu
Interests: fundamental physics of turbulent flows; star formation and the physics of the interstellar medium; type Ia supernovae
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Lance Fiondella
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
lfiondella@umassd.edu
Interests: software; hardware; and network reliability; risk analysis
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Dana Fine
Professor
Mathematics Department
dfine@umassd.edu
Interests: mathematical physics; quantum mechanics
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Scott Field
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
sfield@umassd.edu
Interests: large-scale scientific computation, numerical analysis, surrogate and reduced-order modeling, discontinuous Galerkin methods, general relativity and astrophysics
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Bo Dong
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
bdong@umassd.edu
Interests: numerical analysis; scientific computing; finite element methods
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Gary Davis
Professor
Mathematics Department
gdavis@umassd.edu
Interests: mathematics education
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Joohyun Chung (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Adult Nursing
jchung@umassd.edu
Interests: Nursing informatics (academic EHRs in nursing education, and data mining), biostatistics with specialization in reliability (psychometrics), and nursing economic outcome study
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Zheng Chen
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
zchen2@umassd.edu
Interests: numerical analysis, scientific computing, and applied mathematics
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Yuchou Chang
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
ychang1@umassd.edu
Interests: Biomedical Imaging, Intelligent Robotics, Brain-Computer Interface