Faculty and Research | Data Science

Interdisciplinary Programs

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.

Executive Committee

Name/Profile	Title	Email	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	Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences	amotong@udel.edu		412 Smith Hall

Advisory Committee

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	Email	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 Agriculture 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 Agriculture 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