People

Core Members

Ce (Brian) Bian

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Ce Bian Copy

Email: ce.bian@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-1514

Office: LS 206C

Afshan Boodhwani

Associate Professor of Instruction

Afshan Boodhwani copy

Email: afshan.boodhwani@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-1517

Office: LS 206

Todd Castoe

Professor

Todd Castoe

Email: todd.castoe@uta.edu

Office: ERB 433

Research: Genomics, population genetics, bioinformatics

Jeffery Demuth

Associate Professor

Jeffery Demuth

Email: jpdemuth@uta.edu

Office: ERB 430

Research: We use a variety of molecular and bioinformatics approaches to study the evolution of genes, genomes and organisms. Since the growing wealth of genomic data poses exciting opportunities as well as unique challenges, much of our research is integrated with the development of computational tools necessary to analyze evolutionary hypotheses on a genomic scale.

Amir Farbin, PhD, University of Maryland

Professor

Amir Farbin

Email: afarbin@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-1178

Office: CPB Room 340

Area: High Energy Physics

Behzad Ghanbarian

Associate Professor

Keaton Hamm

Mathematics Representative

Assistant Professor

Keaton Hamm

Email: keaton.hamm@uta.edu

Office: PKH 417

Research: Mathematical Data Science, including interpretable dimensionality reduction, manifold learning, randomized linear algebra, signal processing, harmonic analysis, and approximation theory

Mahmoud Jawad

Associate Professor of Instruction

Mahmoud Jawad

Email: mahmoud.jawad@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-3261

Office: PKH 453

Wei Jiang

Assistant Professor

Angela Liegey-Dougall

Psychology Representative

Associate Professor

Angela Liegey-Dougall

Email: adougall@uta.edu

Office: LS 523

Research: Further activity is in high-pressure chemistry, especially in nitrogen-rich compounds. We research paths of structural phase transitions, and compute high-temperature/high-pressure phase diagrams to support experimental endeavors.

Ren-Cang Li, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1995

Professor

Ren-Cang Li

Email: rcli@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-0548

Office: PKH 428

Area: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Pedro Maia, Ph.D., University of Washington, 2014

Assistant Professor

Pedro Maia

Email: pedro.maia@uta.edu

Office: SEIR 218

Area: Data Science

Kwangho Nam

Associate Professor

Kwangho Nam

Email: kwangho.nam@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-1091

Office: 300E SH

Area: Computational and Theoretical Methods in Biomolecular Systems

Suvra Pal

Associate Professor

Suvra Pal

Email: suvra.pal@uta.edu

Office: SEIR 217

Research: The current focus of my research is to develop novel statistical models and associated estimation algorithms that will help clinicians and researchers to identify which patients are most likely to benefit from specific therapies, thereby providing important insight for optimizing treatment approaches and defining rational combination therapies.

Masoud Rostami

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Assistant Program Director, B.S. in Data Science (BSDS)

Email: masoud.rostami@uta.edu

Office: LS B33

Research: My research interests lie at the intersection of climate change, oceanography, environmental science, and biology, specifically leveraging machine learning and deep learning algorithms to unearth and understand complex patterns within these disciplines.

Amir Shahmoradi

Assistant Professor

Amir Shahmoradi

Email: a.shahmoradi@uta.edu

Office: SEIR 317

Research: My research involves the development of machine learning algorithms and their applications together with probability theory in computational and data-intensive fields, including Proteomics, Biomedical Imaging, and High-Energy Astrophysics.

Shan Sun-Mitchell

Co-Director for Academic Programs

Professor

Sun-Mitchell Shan

Email: shan.sun@uta.edu

Office: PKH 464

Research: My research areas include (1) nonparametric statistics (2) Asymptotic theorems (3) Statistical applications in remaining useful life estimation

Yike Shen

Earth and Environmental Sciences Representative

Assistant Professor

Email: yike.shen@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-6756

Office: EES 217

Li Wang

Associate Professor

Li Wang

Email: li.wang@uta.edu

Office: PKH 438

Research: My research follows three main directions. The first one is unsupervised graph structure learning, which has wide applications in fields such as computer vision and bioinformatics. The second one is dimensionality reduction, which is the first and critical step for dealing with very high dimensional datasets. The third one is developments of efficient data analysis and optimization methods for big data.

Xinlei (Sherry) Wang

Co-Director for Research

Professor

Sherry Wang

Email: xinlei.wang@uta.edu

Phone #: 817-272-9310

Office: PKH 448

Area: Statistics and Data Science

Mei Yang

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Mei Yang

Qiang Zheng

Assistant Professor of Research

Affiliate Members​

Ogan Gurel

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ogan Gurel

Junzhou Huang

Professor

Insung Kang

Assistant Professor

Juhyun Lee

Associate Professor

Chengkai Li

Professor

Michael D. Nelson

Associate Professor

Jacob Luber

Assistant Professor

Jacob Luber

Liao Yue

Assistant Professor