Department of Computational Data Science

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Computational and Data Sciences Faculty

Chair: Dr. D. Papaconstantopoulos

 General Faculty

 Peter A. Becker
Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Astrophysics, applied mathematics.
email: pbecker@gmu.edu
 Estela Blaisten-Barojas
Professor; Ph.D., Universite de Paris VI (France), 1974. Computational physics, condensed matter physics.
Fellow of the American Pysical Society
email: blaisten@gmu.edu
 Kirk Borne
Associate Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983. Astronomy, astrophysics.
email: kborne@gmu.edu
 Fernando Camelli
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., George Mason University, 2002. Transport and dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere, turbulence Modeling for CFD, unstructured Grid Generation, parallel computing.
email: fcamelli@gmu.edu
 Juan Raul Cebral
Associate Professor; Ph.D., George Mason University, 1996. Computational fluid dynamics.
email: jcebral@gmu.edu
 James E. Gentle
University Professor; Ph.D., Texas A & M, 1974. Computational statistics, numerical analysis, computational finance.
email: jgentle@gmu.edu
 Igor Griva
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., George Mason University, 2002. Nonlinear optimization and applications.
email: igriva@gmu.edu
 Rainald Löhner
Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., University of Swansea (Wales, U.K.), 1984, Computational fluid dynamics.
email: rlohner@gmu.edu
 Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos
Professor and Chair; Ph.D., The University of London, 1967. Solid state physics.
Fellow of the American Pysical Society
email: dpapacon@gmu.edu
Tight-Binding parameters for the Elements
Electronic Structure Database
 Howard (Hongwei) Sheng
Assistant Professor; Ph.D, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materals Scie nce, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1997. Material Science.
email: hsheng@gmu.edu
 John F. Wallin
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1989. Astronomy, astrophysics.
email: jwallin@gmu.edu
 Edward Wegman
Dunn Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1968. Computational statistics.
email: ewegman@gmu.edu
 Robert Weigel
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2000. Magnetospheric physics, space weather, and geomagnetism.
email: rweigel@gmu.edu
 Chi Yang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1988. Computational fluid dynamics.
email: cyang@gmu.edu
 Jie Zhang
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1999. Solar physics, space weather.
email: jzhang7@gmu.edu
 Stanley Zoltek
Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York, 1976. Differential geometry.
emailM: szoltek@gmu.edu
 

Research Faculty

 Ken Dere
Research Professor; Ph.D., Catholic University, 1980. Solar physics, space weather.
email: kdere@gmu.edu
 Richard Gomez
Research Professor; Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 1976. Hyperspectral imaging, remote sensing.
email: rgomez@gmu.edu
 Art Poland
Research Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1969. Solar atmosphere, space weather.
email: a poland@gmu.edu
 Lev Titarchuk
Research Professor; Dr. Sci., Space Research Institute (Moscow), 1972. Astrophysics.
email: lev@xip.nrl.navy.mil
 

Affiliate Faculty

 Robert Axtell
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1992. Computational social science, computational modeling.
email: raxtell@gmu.edu
 W. Murray Black
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ph.D., Penn State University, 1971. Electrical engineering, material science.
email: mblack@gmu.edu
 Felix A. Buot
Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1970. Theoretical solid state physics.
email: fbuot@gmu.edu
 Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Professor; Ph.D., University of Florence, Italy, 1977. Complexity theory, social science, computational modeling.
email: ccioffi@gmu.edu
 Daniel Carr
Professor in the Department of Statistics; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1976. Computational statistics.
email: dcarr@gmu.edu
 E. N. Economou
Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicgo, 1969. Theoretical condensed matter physics.
email: economou@admin.forth.gr
 Jeffrey T. Morisette
Research Associate Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1997. Remote sensing.
email: jeff.morisette@nasa.gov
 Merav Opher
Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Ph.D., University of São Paulo, Brazil, 1998. Plasma astrophysics.
email: email mopher@gmu.edu
 Roman Polyak
Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering & Operations Research; Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences, 1966. Optimization.
email: rpolyak@gmu.edu
 David Porter
Professor in the Interdisciplinary Center for Economics Sciences; Ph.D., Economics, University of Arizona, 1987; M.S., Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1983. Computational Economic Systems, Experimental Economics, Finance.
email: dporter4@gmu.edu
 William Sandberg
Research Professor; Ph.D., Catholic University, 1987.
Liquid State Physics, Molecular Dynamics, Nanofluidics.
email: sandberg@lcp.nrl.navy.mil
 Timothy Sauer
Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences; Ph.D., University of California, 1982. Chaos, dynamical systems.
email: tsauer@gmu.edu
 Michael E. Summers
Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1985. Planetary science, earth science, astrobiology.
email: email msummers@physics.gmu.edu
 Ruixin Yang
Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Systems & GeoInformatin Sciences; Ph.D., University of Sothern California, 1990, Data information systems. 1988. Computational fluid dynamics.
email: ryang@gmu.edu