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  • Headshot of Aaron Abrams
    Faculty
    Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Theory, Foundations, and Advanced Methodologies
    Abrams is a mathematician with broad interests spanning geometry, topology, combinatorics, and probability. He views mathematics as a social discipline. Read more
  • Headshot of Prince Afriyie
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Theory, Foundations, and Advanced Methodologies, Biomedical, Health, and Life Sciences
    Afriyie serves as program director of the M.S. in Data Science residential program. His educational background is in mathematics and statistics. Read more
  • Headshot of Chirag Agarwal
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Chirag Agarwal is an assistant professor of data science and leads the Aikyam lab, which focuses on developing trustworthy machine learning frameworks that go b Read more
  • Headshot of Peter Alonzi
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Alonzi’s areas of research include particle physics and the intersection of mental health and the criminal justice system. Read more
  • Headshot of Rafael Alvarado
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Alvarado's areas of research include digital humanities, text analytics, and the anthropology of information. Read more
  • Headshot of Stephen Baek
    Faculty
    Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Digital Human Modeling, Sports Science, Medicine, Analytics
    Baek is an applied geometer, scientist, and entrepreneur. He studies the space of shapes using machine learning. Read more
  • Headshot of Bill Basener
    Faculty
    Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Lidar, Hyperspectral Analysis, Geospatial Information, Biological Modeling, Biomedicine, Environmental Science
    Basener has authored research publications in machine learning, signal processing, image processing, dynamical systems, game theory, and other subjects. Read more
  • Headshot of Jeffrey Blume
    Faculty
    Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Clinical Trials, Cancer Imaging, Radiology, Lung Cancer Screening, Nephrology, Structural Biology, Biostatistics
    Blume is a data scientist, administrator, and biostatistician, with vast experience building and leading academic programs. Read more
  • Headshot of Philip Bourne
    Faculty
    Stephenson Dean
    Bourne is the founding dean of the School of Data Science. He is a world renowned biomedical and data science researcher. Read more
  • Headshot of Donald Brown
    Faculty
    Quantitative Foundation Distinguished Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Translational Science, Histopathology, Health Equity, Security
    Brown was the founding director of the Data Science Institute. His research interests include data fusion, knowledge discovery, and simulation optimization. Read more
  • Headshot of Yue Cheng
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Cheng's research interests include distributed systems, cloud and serverless computing, high-performance computing, and operating systems. Read more
  • Headshot of Bruce Corliss
    Faculty, Visiting Scholar
    Visiting Scholar
  • Headshot of Renée Cummings
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Practice in Data Science
    Cummings is an AI, data, and tech ethicist, and the first Data Activist-in-Residence at the School of Data Science. Read more
  • Headshot of Mai Dahshan
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Mai Dahshan is a data scientist and researcher specializing in intelligent user interfaces and their application to human-AI partnerships. Read more
  • Headshot of Farhana Faruqe
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Trustworthy AI, Technology Acceptance, Human-centered Design
    Faruqe is a data scientist and a researcher, and her research focuses on trustworthy AI, human-centered design, and AI acceptance. Read more
  • Headshot of Judy Fox
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Biomedicine, Social Networks
    Fox's research focuses on designing experimental systems that enable data science, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. Read more
  • Headshot of Alex Gates
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Social Networks, Scientific Organizations, DEI in Science, Technological Innovation, Leadership Studies
    Gates is a computational social scientist with an avid curiosity for understanding how connectivity shapes human behavior. Read more
  • Headshot of Gianluca Guadagni
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Ethics/Bias, Education, Machine Learning And Data Mining
    Guadagni's research is in statistical mechanics, renormalization group, Stochastic processes, and mathematical modeling. Read more
  • Headshot of Tom Hartvigsen
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Machine Learning And Data Mining, Language Models, Time Series, Health Care, Equity/Bias
    Hartvigsen works to make machine learning trustworthy, robust, and socially responsible enough for deployment in high-stakes, dynamic settings. Read more
  • Headshot of Teague Henry
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Mental Health, Social Networks
    Henry's research focuses on developing new statistical techniques for modeling network and dynamical systems data. Read more
  • Headshot of Mar Hicks
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Data Ethics and Society
    Hicks does research on the history of computing, labor, technology, and queer science and technology studies. Read more
  • Headshot of Terence Johnson
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Market Design, Industrial Organization, High Stakes Auctions, Matching
    Johnson is an economist specializing in market design and development economics, using machine learning and other tools to improve the performance of markets. Read more
  • Headshot of Jonathan Kropko
    Faculty
    Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Civic Tech, Political Science
    Kropko's research interests include civic technology, remote environmental sensing, survival and time series analysis, and missing data imputation. Read more
  • Headshot of Natalie Kupperman
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Sports Science, Medicine, Analytics, Wellness, Musculoskeletal Health
    Kupperman is an applied sports science researcher and certified athletic trainer. She studies the use of biometrics and other athlete monitoring methods. Read more
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    Professor
  • Headshot of Sheng Li
    Faculty
    Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Visual Scene Understanding, Bioinformatics, Recommender Systems
    Li is an artificial intelligence researcher and his long-term goal is to develop intelligent systems in open and dynamic environments. Read more
  • Headshot of Jundong Li
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Li's research interests include data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and social computing. Read more
  • Headshot of Neal Magee
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Solution Architecture, Distributed Systems, Event-driven Computing, Software Deployment
    Magee's areas of interest include solution architecture, cloud computing, event-driven computing, and cloud-native design patterns. Read more
  • Headshot of Antonios Mamalakis
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Hydroclimate, Predictability, Climate Teleconnections, Data-driven Forecasts, Climate Extremes, Climate Change Impacts
    Mamalakis is an environmental data scientist interested in exploring tools like Bayesian analysis to solve challenges in environmental applications. Read more
  • Headshot of Aaron Martin
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Martin studies how regulation can facilitate just, inclusive, and secure digital societies. Read more
  • Headshot of Paul Perrin
    Faculty
    Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Health Disparities, Clinical Trials, Social Science
    Perrin is passionate about mentoring students in data science and allied fields to become agents of social change with an emphasis on disability and health. Read more
  • Headshot of Michael Porter
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Criminology, Social Science, Transportation, Business, Security, Forecasting
    Porter’s research interests include event prediction and forecasting, pattern and event detection, data linkage, machine learning, and more. Read more
  • Headshot of Javier Rasero
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Biomedicine, Mental Health, Neuroscience
    Rasero's research focuses on developing and applying new pipelines and methodologies to efficiently integrate multimodal brain data. Read more
  • Headshot of Jess Reia
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Smart Cities/Urban Data, Governmental & Non-Governmental Policy, Regulation
    Reia works primarily on topics of data justice, urban governance, and technology policy transnationally. Read more
  • Headshot of Austin Rivera
    Faculty, Lecturer
    Lecturer
  • Headshot of Marc Ruggiano
    Faculty
    Inaugural Director of the UVA Darden Collaboratory for Applied Data Science and Lecturer
  • Headshot of Heman Shakeri
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Learning Based Control, Single Cell Data Analysis, Computational Neuroscience, Networked Processes, Functional Data Analysis
    Shakeri's research interests include algorithm development in machine learning, learning based control, and network science. Read more
  • Headshot of Mona Sloane
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Sociology of AI, AI Audits and Transparency, AI and Hiring, Global Policy of AI, Technology Innovation for Journalism, Interdisciplinary Research on AI Innovation and Accountability
    As a sociologist, Sloane studies the intersection of technology and society, specifically in the context of AI design, use, and policy. Read more
  • Headshot of Thomas Stewart
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Clinical Trials
    Stewart is a data scientist specializing in biostatistics, clinical trials, and clinical research education. Read more
  • Headshot of Adam Tashman
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Tashman's research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, biomedical informatics, and more. Read more
  • Headshot of Jon Tupitza
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Practice in Data Science
    Tupitza previously served as a Lecturer in the School of Data Science following two decades in the IT services industry, including at Microsoft. Read more
  • Headshot of Wajih Ul Hassan
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    His research focuses on securing complex networked systems by leveraging data provenance approaches and scalable system design. Read more
  • Headshot of John Van Horn
    Faculty
    Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Biomedicine
    Van Horn's research interests include human neuroimaging, patterns, and biomarkers in brain health and disease; and the brain as a data science. Read more
  • Headshot of Philip Waggoner
    Faculty
    Lecturer
  • Headshot of Tianhao Wang
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Wang is a data privacy and security researcher. He has extensive publications in top security and database conferences. Read more
  • Headshot of Jason Williamson
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Practice in Data Science
    Research Interests
    Predictive Anomaly Detection, Predictive Sports Analytics, High Performance Computing, Hybrid Cloud Architectures, Transportation Logistics
    Williamson has also worked at Oracle in a variety of capacities, including as Vice President for Oracle for Startups and Oracle for Research. Read more
  • Headshot of Jeffrey Woo
    Faculty
    Associate Professor of Data Science
    Woo's research focuses on optimization and statistical estimation for the post randomization method. Read more
  • Headshot of Brian Wright
    Faculty
    Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science
    Wright serves as director of undergraduate programs. He began his career with the Department of Defense as a management consultant and researcher. Read more
  • Headshot of Jianxin Xie
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Jianxin's research interests encompass the use of advanced machine learning and data analytics tools to tackle challenging health care and engineering problems. Read more
  • Headshot of Nur Yildirim
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Nur Yildirim's research program focuses on developing human-centered and participator Read more
  • Headshot of Aiying Zhang
    Faculty
    Assistant Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Mental Health, Multimodal Brain Imaging, Genetics, Multi-omics, Lifespan Brain Development, Psychiatric/Neurological Disorders
    Zhang's expertise lies in statistical modeling, multimodal neuroimaging, and genetics, with a focus on graphical models and network science. Read more
  • Headshot of Aidong Zhang
    Faculty
    Professor of Data Science
    Research Interests
    Machine Learning And Data Mining
    Zhang develops data mining and machine learning approaches to structured and unstructured data. Read more