Faculty and Research | Data Science
More than 60 faculty members — with varied research interests — representing over 20 departments from colleges throughout UD share their individual expertise and unite to equip students with the tools and knowledge required for well-paying, in-demand careers in a growing field with a high job satisfaction rate. Our affiliated faculty include NSF Career Award winners, fellows of international societies, Sloan Fellows and chaired professors.
Name/Profile | Title | Phone | Location | |
Gonzalo Arce | Charles Black Evans Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering |
arce@udel.edu | 302-831-1493 | Evans 312 |
Benjamin Bagozzi | Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions College of Arts and Sciences – Political Science & International Relations |
bagozzib@udel.edu | 302-831-2355 | 405 Smith Hall |
Federica Bianco | Assistant Professor Biden School Public Pol/Admin; Physics & Astronomy |
fbianco@udel.edu | 302-831-1521 | Sharp Lab |
VC Dinh | Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences |
vucdinh@udel.edu | 302-831-2653 | 312 Ewing Hall |
Gregory Dobler | Assistant Professor Biden School of Public Policy |
gdobler@udel.edu | 302-831-1687 | 272 Graham Hall |
Tobin Driscoll | Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences Department of Mathematical Sciences |
msds-director@udel.edu | 302-831-3383 | 515 Ewing Hall |
Jing Gao | Assistant Professor of Geospatial Data Science College of Earth, Ocean & Environment |
jinggao@udel.edu | 302-831-8266 | 210 Pearson Hall |
Henry May | Professor College of Education and Human Development |
hmay@udel.edu | 302-831-2928 | 104C Pearson Hall |
Ilya Safro | Associate Professor, Computer and Information Sciences | isafro@udel.edu | 302-831-4512 | 430 Smith Hall |
Cencheng Shen | Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Statistics College of Agriculture and Natural Resources |
shenc@udel.edu | 302-831-1319 | 227 Townsend Hall |
Amo Tong | Assisitant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences |
amotong@udel.edu | 412 Smith Hall |
Name | Title(s) |
Patrick Callahan | Founder and CEO CompassRed |
Claudine Jurkovitz | Senior Physician Scientist, Value Institute Lead Biostatistics Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Core, DE ACCEL-CTR Director of Centralized Research Support Network (CRSN), DE-INBRE Christiana Health Care Systems |
Dana Rohrbaugh | Director, Government Information Center Delaware Department of State |
Scott Stevens | Executive Director CCB Business Intelligence Delivery Center, JP Morgan Chase |
Cathy Wu | Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science Director, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (CBCB) Director, Protein Information Resource (PIR) Professor, Computer & Information Sciences Professor, Biological Sciences Founding Director, Data Science Institute |
Affiliated Faculty
Most of our faculty members are also affiliated with the Data Science Institute, which provides resources for accelerating research in data science across campus.
First Name | Last Name | College and Department | Research Interest | |||
Gonzalo | Arce | College of Engineering — Electrical and Computer Engineering | arce@udel.edu | Machine learning, data science, graph signal and data processing, geometrical neural networks, statistical learning, computational imaging | ||
Constantin | Bacuta | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | bacuta@udel.edu | Least squares, saddle point systems, mixed methods, multilevel methods, preconditioning, elliptic equations, Sobolev interpolation spaces, Stokes systems, inexact Uzawa algorithms | ||
Ben | Bagozzi | College of Arts and Sciences — Political Science and International Relations | bagozzib@udel.edu | Computational social science, political event data, text-as-data, applied machine learning, natural language processing, political violence, environmental politics | ||
Naya | Banerjee | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | naya@udel.edu | |||
Yin | Bao | College of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Plant and Soil Sciences; College of Engineering — Mechanical Engineering | yinbao@udel.edu | Digital agriculture, plant phenomics, remote and proximal sensing, computer vision, robotics, machine learning | ||
Ken | Barner | College of Engineering — Electrical and Computer Engineering | barner@udel.edu | Machine learning, data science, statistical signal, image, and video processing, biomedical and human computer interaction applications | ||
Rahmat | Beheshti | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | rbi@udel.edu | Machine learning, artificial intelligence, health data science, computational epidemiology, biomedical informatics | ||
Antony | Beris | College of Engineering — Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | beris@udel.edu | |||
Federica | Bianco | College of Arts and Sciences — Physics and Astronomy | fbianco@udel.edu | |||
Austin | Brockmeier | College of Engineering — Electrical and Computer Engineering | ajbrock@udel.edu | Machine learning, text mining, signal processing, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, health risk prediction | ||
Jeff | Buler | College of Agriculature and Natural Resources — Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | jbuler@udel.edu | Radar, bird migration, distribution modeling, applied landscape ecology, remote sensing | ||
Sunita | Chandrasekaran | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | schandra@udel.edu | |||
Bintong | Chen | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Business Administration | bchen@udel.edu | |||
Ke | Chen | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | kechen@udel.edu | Scientific machine learning, inverse problems, deep operator learning, and randomized numerical linear algebra | ||
Susan | Conaty-Buck | College of Health Sciences — Nursing | sconaty@udel.edu | |||
Mike | Crossley | College of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | crossley@udel.edu | Ecoinformatics tools to learn about insect ecology and management in changing farmscapes | ||
Nina | David | College of Arts and Sciences — Biden School of Public Policy and Administration | npdavid@udel.edu | Land use planning, regional planning, growth management, metropolitan governance, collaborative governance, smart growth, smart cities | ||
Kyle | Davis | College of Earth, Ocean and the Environment — Geography and Spatial Sciences | kfdavis@udel.edu | Geospatial data science for food system sustainability | ||
Keith | Decker | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | decker@udel.edu | Multi-agent systems, cooperative distributed problem solving, parallel and Distributed planning and scheduling, multi-agent learning, distributed information gathering, health informatics, bioinformatics, computational organization design | ||
Shanshan | Ding | College of Agriculature and Natural Resources — Applied Economics and Statistics | sding@udel.edu | |||
Vu | Dinh | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | vucdinh@udel.edu | Applied probability, phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, statistical learning, uncertainty quantifications | ||
Greg | Dobler | College of Arts and Sciences— Biden School of Public Policy and Administration | gdobler@udel.edu | |||
Sarah | Dodson-Robinson | College of Arts and Sciences — Physics and Astronomy | sdr@udel.edu | Astronomy, astrophysics, exoplanets, stars, time series, frequency domain | ||
Tobin | Driscoll | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | driscoll@udel.edu | Scientific computing, biomedical image and video processing and mining, data-driven mathematical modeling | ||
Evangelos | Falaris | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Economics | falaris@udel.edu | Labor markets, developing countries, applied econmetrics | ||
Xiao | Fang | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Accounting and Management Information Systems | xfang@udel.edu | AI and machine learning, fintech, social network analytics, healthcare analytics | ||
Jing | Gao | College of Earth, Ocean and the Environment — Geography | jinggao@udel.edu | Geospatial data science, machine learning, human dimensions of global environmental change, urban land change, spatial population, uncertainty analysis and modeling | ||
Javier | Garcia-Frias | College of Engineering — Electrical and Computer Engineering | jgf@udel.edu | |||
Mahya | Ghandehari | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | mahya@udel.edu | |||
John | Gizis | College of Arts and Sciences — Physics and Astronomy | gizis@udel.edu | |||
Olga | Gorbachev | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Economics | olgag@udel.edu | |||
Dominique | Guillot | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | dguillot@udel.edu | Matrix analysis, analysis on networks, covariance models, applications in science and engineering | ||
Jodi | Hadden-Perilla | College of Arts and Sciences — Chemistry and Biochemistry | jhadden@udel.edu | Molecular dynamics simulations, computational chemistry and biophysics, structural biology, biomolecular force fields, high-performance computing, large-scale data analysis and visualization | ||
Jamie | Holder | College of Arts and Sciences — Physics and Astronomy | jholder@udel.edu | Gamma-ray astrophysics, multi-messenger astronomy, neutron stars, supernova remnants, black holes, active galaxies | ||
Tom | Hsu | College of Engineering — Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering | thsu@udel.edu | |||
Thomas | Ilvento | College of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Applied Economics and Statistics | ilvento@udel.edu | |||
Arthi | Jayaraman | College of Engineering — Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (primary) and Materials Science and Engineering (secondary) | arthij@udel.edu | Machine learning, microscopy image analysis, molecular modeling and simulation, soft materials, interdisciplinary graduate education, | ||
Jonathan | Justice | Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration | justice@udel.edu | Public budgeting, public finance, financial management, fiscal stress, decision making, administrative accountability, transparency, public administration, public governance | ||
Delphis | Levia | College of Earth, Ocean and the Environment — Geography | dlevia@udel.edu | |||
Li | Liao | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | liliao@udel.edu | |||
Jing | Ma | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Hospitality and Sports Business Management | jingma@udel.edu | Business analytics, data science, optimization, statistical modeling, hospitality analytics | ||
Mokshay | Madiman | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | madiman@udel.edu | Machine learning, data science, analysis, optimization, control of cyber physical systems, decentralized stochastic systems | ||
Andreas | Malikopoulos | College of Engineering — Mechanical Engineering | andreas@udel.edu | |||
Lena | Mashayekhy | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | mlena@udel.edu | |||
Matthew Louis | Mauriello | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | mlm@udel.edu | Human-computer interaction, applied machine learning, education, health and well-being, environmental sustainability | ||
Henry | May | College of Education and Human Development — Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) | hmay@udel.edu | Education statistics, program evaluation, casual inference, experimental design, psychometrics | ||
Ethan | McCormick | School of Education | emccorm@udel.edu | Applied statistics, longitudinal modeling, time series, psychometrics, structural equations, mixed effects models, nonlinear models | ||
Pinki | Mondal | College of Earth, Ocean and the Environment — Geography & Spatial Sciences | mondalp@udel.edu | Satellite image, remote sensing, GIS, machine learning, geospatial data science, environmental geography, forest, agriculture, weather, food security, sustainable development goals | ||
Peter | Monk | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | monk@udel.edu | Inverse problems, Python, wave propagation, regularization, numerical analysis | ||
Ratna | Nandakumar | College of Education and Human Development — School of Education | nandakum@udel.edu | Applied statistics, Rasch measurement and analysis, single subject research, Bayesian analysus, differential item functioning, psychometrics | ||
Kassra AR | Oskooii | College of Arts and Sciences — Political Science and International Relations | oskooiik@udel.edu | |||
Sandeep | Patel | College of Arts and Sciences — Chemistry and Biochemistry | sapatel@udel.edu | |||
Xi | Peng | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | xipeng@udel.edu | |||
Juan | Perilla | College of Arts and Sciences — Chemistry and Biochemistry | jperilla@udel.edu | Computational chemistry, computational biology, structural biology, AI applied to molecules, drug design, machine learning applied to infectious diseases, high performance computing | ||
Veronique | Petit | College of Arts and Sciences — Physics and Astronomy | vpetit@udel.edu | Stellar astrophysics, structure and evolution of massive stars, detection and characterization of stellar magnetic fields, telescope observations, data analysis, simulations and modeling | ||
Petr | Plechac | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | plechac@udel.edu | |||
Tom | Powers | College of Arts and Sciences — Philosophy | tpowers@udel.edu | Ethics of information technology, especially AI and machine ethics | ||
Wei | Qian | College of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Applied Economics and Statistics | weiqian@udel.edu | Statistical machine learning, high-dimensional modeling, dimension, high-dimensional modeling, dimension reduction, multi-armed bandits, artificial intelligence, actuarial statistics, statistical computing, optimization, network modeling, data science applications | ||
Jing | Qiu | College of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Applied Economics and Statistics | qiujing@udel.edu | |||
Jingmei | Qiu | College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematical Sciences | jingqiu@udel.edu | Computational fluid dynamics,discontinuous Galerkin method, weighted essential non-oscillatory methods, semi-langrangian method, mutli-scale multi-physics, Masov plasma dynamics, implicit explicit methods | ||
Ed | Ratledge | College of Arts and Sciences — Biden School of Public Policy and Administration | ratledge@udel.edu | |||
Chandra | Reedy | College of Arts and Sciences — Art History | clreedy@udel.edu | |||
Breck | Robinson | College of Arts and Sciences — Biden School of Public Policy and Administration | robinsob@udel.edu | |||
Laurie | Ruggiero | Health Behavior and Nutrition Sciences | ruggiero@udel.edu | |||
Teomara | Rutherford | College of Education and Human Development — School of Education | teomara@udel.edu | Learning analytics from educational technology data; use of social science data | ||
Marianna | Safranova | College of Arts and Sciences — Physics | msafrono@physics.udel.edu | Quantum many-body theory, quantum sensors, data portal, dark matter | ||
Ilya | Safro | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | isafro@udel.edu | |||
Ulf | Schiller | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | uschill@udel.edu | Multiscale modeling and simulation, data-driven materials science, physics-informed machine learning, high-performance computing | ||
Keith | Schneider | College of Arts and Sciences — Psychological and Brain Sciences | keithas@udel.edu | Vision, perception, awareness, dyslexia, thalamus, neuroimaging, neuroscience, attention, fMRI | ||
Vijay | Shanker | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | vijay@udel.edu | |||
Cencheng | Shen | College of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Applied Economics and Statistics | shenc@udel.edu | |||
Abhyudai | Singh | College of Engineering — Biomedical Engineering | absingh@udel.edu | Modeling and analysis of biomolecular circuits, systems biology, virus-host interactions, computational neuroscience, ecological population dynamics | ||
Dan | Smith | College of Arts and Sciences — Biden School of Public Policy and Administration | dansmith@udel.edu | |||
Sandy | Student | School of Education | srstu@udel.edu | Educational and psychological measurement, psychometrics, growth models | ||
Bert | Tanner | College of Engineering — Mechanical Engineering | btanner@udel.edu | Machine learning, data science, robotic systems, rmphasis to multi-agent coordination, hybrid dynamical systems, mobile manipulation, nonholonomic motion planning and control | ||
Jeremy | Tobacman | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Economics | tobacman@udel.edu | Behavioral economics, household finance, consumer credit, intertemporal choice, development economics | ||
Amo | Tong | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | amotong@udel.edu | Machine learning, algorithms and complexity theory, social science, real-time systems | ||
Tibor | Toth | College of Arts and Sciences — Biden School of Public Policy & Administration |
tibi@udel.edu | Survey research, policy and policy analysis | ||
Dion | Vlachos | College of Engineering — Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | vlachos@udel.edu | |||
Carolyn | Voter | College of Engineering — Civil and Environmental Engineering | cvoter@udel.edu | Hydrologic modeling | ||
Gang | Wang | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Accounting and MIS | gangw@udel.edu | Two-sided e-platforms; the economic impacts of digital technologies (such as robots and generative AI); Causal analytics and online experimentation | ||
Harry | Wang | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Accounting and MIS | hjwang@udel.edu | Artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, social computing, and enterprise systems | ||
Timothy | Webb | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Hospitality Business Management | twebb@udel.edu | Developing revenue management strategies for restaurant and hotel organizations | ||
Cathy | Wu | College of Engineering — Computer and Information Sciences | wuc@udel.edu | Bioinformatics and data science - natural language processing, knowledge networks, machine learning | ||
Jiaheng | Xie | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Accounting and MIS | jxie@udel.edu | Interpretable deep learning, large language model, health analytics | ||
Leting | Zhang | Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics — Accounting and MIS | letingz@udel.edu | Economics of information technology, IT risks, healthcare, labor, causal inference | ||
Ryan | Zurakowski | College of Engineering — Biomedical Engineering | ryanz@udel.edu |