Faculty Directory

Research Interests: Nature inspired computing (evolutionary, swarm, and neural algorithms) for design and AI; metamodeling and multi-fidelity optimization; MINLP; swarm systems and swarm-bots; autonomous systems; and unmanned aerial vehicles

Specialty/Research Focus: Computer Science Education (undergraduate and graduate); Introductory programming education; Assessment; Grading, and grading practices (with a focus on equitable grading); Neurodivergent learners in computer science

Research Topics: GIScience; Geospatial artificial intelligence; Spatial data mining; Geographic informational retrieval

Research Topics: Information economics; behavioral economics; financial markets; software; IT systems

Research Topics: Statistical Sciences (Statistics & Biostatistics): theory and applications of statistical distances; mixture models; robustness, inference for "big" data; surveillance for large databases; studies of dependence; classification and clustering Interdisciplinary: biomedical informatics; text mining; machine learning; methods for comparative effectiveness research; safety of medical products

Research Topics: Machine learning; bioinformatics; cancer informatics and metagenomics

Research Topics: Software; IT systems

Research Topics: Additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping

Specialty/Research Focus: Reinforcement learning, machine learning, signal processing and information theory