Faculty

Photo of Alireza Asadpoure
Alireza Asadpoure
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
aasadpoure@umassd.edu
Interests:
Photo of Ramprasad Balasubramanian
Ramprasad Balasubramanian
Professor
Computer and Information Science
rbalasubrama@umassd.edu
Interests: computer vision; image processing; artificial intelligence; autonomous mobile robotics and HCI
Photo of Vanni Bucci (Visiting)
Vanni Bucci (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Biology Department
vanni.bucci@umassd.edu
Interests: computational and systems biology; metagenomics; comparative genomics; microbial ecology; individual-based modeling
Photo of John Buck
John Buck
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
jbuck@umassd.edu
Interests: animal bioacoustics; information theory; signal processing; underwater acoustics
Photo of Collin Capano
Collin Capano
Adjunct Faculty
Math/Physics
ccapano@umassd.edu
Interests: HPC, Bayesian inference, Gravity
Photo of Yuchou Chang
Yuchou Chang
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
ychang1@umassd.edu
Interests: Biomedical Imaging, Intelligent Robotics, Brain-Computer Interface
Photo of Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
zchen2@umassd.edu
Interests: numerical analysis, scientific computing, and applied mathematics
Photo of Joohyun Chung (Visiting)
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
Photo of Gary Davis
Gary Davis
Professor
Mathematics Department
gdavis@umassd.edu
Interests: mathematics education
Photo of Bo Dong
Bo Dong
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
bdong@umassd.edu
Interests: numerical analysis; scientific computing; finite element methods
Photo of Scott Field
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
Photo of Dana Fine
Dana Fine
Professor
Mathematics Department
dfine@umassd.edu
Interests: mathematical physics; quantum mechanics
Photo of Lance Fiondella
Lance Fiondella
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
lfiondella@umassd.edu
Interests: software; hardware; and network reliability; risk analysis
Photo of Robert Fisher
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
Photo of Adam Hausknecht
Adam Hausknecht
Professor
Mathematics Department
ahausknecht@umassd.edu
Interests: computational mathematics
Photo of Alfa Heryudono
Alfa Heryudono
Associate Professor
Mathematics Department
aheryudono@umassd.edu
Interests: scientific computing; numerical methods for PDE; radial basis functions; pseudospectral methods; tear film dynamics
Photo of Xiaofei Jia
Xiaofei Jia
Assistant Professor‌
Chemistry & Biochemistry
xjia@umassd.edu
Interests: X-ray crystallography, cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM), HIV-1 structural biology
Photo of Firas Khatib
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
Photo of Saeja Kim
Saeja Kim
Professor
Mathematics Department
skim@umassd.edu
Interests: computational algebra and mathematics; applied mathematics; mathematics education
Photo of David Koop (Visiting)
David Koop (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
dkoop@umassd.edu
Interests: data science; visualization; provenance; scientific data management
Photo of Jun Li
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
Photo of Hangjian Ling
Hangjian Ling
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
hling1@umassd.edu
Interests: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Collective Animal Behavior; Advanced Imaging
Photo of Maricris Mayes
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
Photo of Akil Narayan (Visiting)
Akil Narayan (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
akil@sci.utah.edu
Interests: scientific computing; numerical analysis; uncertainty quantification; approximation methods
Photo of Ming Daniel Shao
Ming Daniel Shao
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
mshao@umassd.edu
Interests:
Photo of Maoyuan Sun (Visiting)
Maoyuan Sun (Visiting)
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
smaoyuan@umassd.edu
Interests:
Photo of Amit Tandon
Amit Tandon
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
atandon@umassd.edu
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; fluid physics; mathematical biology; physical oceanography
Photo of Mazdak Tootkaboni
Mazdak Tootkaboni
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
mtootkaboni@umassd.edu
Interests: stochastic computational mechanics; uncertainty quantification; data-driven stochastic models; modeling heterogeneous materials
Photo of Cheng Wang
Cheng Wang
Associate Professor
Mathematics Department
cwang1@umassd.edu
Interests: numerical analysis of PDE; computational fluid dynamics
Photo of Jianyi Jay Wang
Jianyi Jay Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
jwang@umassd.edu
Interests: AMO and computational physics
Photo of Haiping Xu
Haiping Xu
Professor
Computer and Information Science
hxu@umassd.edu
Interests: Distributed Computing, Cybersecurity, Deep Learning, Multi-Agent Systems
Photo of Donghui Yan
Donghui Yan
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
dyan@umassd.edu
Interests: machine learning; applied statistics; data science; high dimensional statistical inference
Photo of Sarah Caudill
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.
Photo of Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh
Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
b.aghazadeh@umassd.edu
Interests: Fluid-Structure Interactions
Photo of Vijay Varma
Vijay Varma
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
vvarma@umassd.edu
Interests: Gravitational physics, scientific computing