Faculty Affiliates
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Faculty Affiliates
Associate Professor
- Areas of Teaching: Data science and analytics, Probability and statistics, Statistical inference, Applied statistics, Business statistics, Engineering statistics, Biostatistics, Survival analysis, and Statistical quality management
- Areas of Research: Operations research, Reliability engineering, Lifetime and degradation analyses, Predictive maintenance, Biostatistics, Survival analysis
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Teaching: Parasitology, Data Analysis and Visualization for Biologists
- Areas of Research: Antimalarial drug discovery, Automated high content imaging, Host-parasite interactions, Plasmodium cell and developmental biology
- Lab Website
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Areas of teaching: human evolution; evolutionary medicine; microbiome methods and applications
- Areas of research: human microbiome; impact of early life environments on health; human evolutionary biology; global health
- Lab Website
- Google Scholar
Assistant Professor, Departments of Mathematics & Physics and Astronomy
- Areas of Teaching: Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, Statistical Mechanics, Differential Equations, Calculus
- Areas of Research: Computational Methods (DG, Finite Elements, Monte Carlo, Physics-Informed-Neural-Networks, etc.) for Kinetic Theory of Quantum and Semi-classical problems, with applications to semiconductor physics and open quantum systems.
- Faculty Website
- Google Scholar
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology; Associate Director of Brain Health Consortium
- Areas of teaching: Behavior Assessment, Advanced Single-case Research, Behavior Analysis
- Areas of research: Integration of AI and IoT technologies to healthcare for neurodiverse patients
- Google Scholar
Assistant Professor
- Areas of teaching: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and AI
- Areas of research: Sustainable and Intelligent Air-ground IoT Systems, Tiny Machine Learning for embedded IoT devices, Intelligent Sparse Sensing for Low-power IoT devices , Transient Computing and Communication for Self-powered IoT Systems, and Emerging Non-volatile Memory Design and Optimization
- Lab Website
- Google Scholar
Distinguished Professor
- Areas of Teaching: Introductory relativity and quantum physics, Stars and stellar systems
- Areas of Research: Extragalactic stellar populations, Milky Way structure, Topological data analysis, Astronomical optical-infrared observatories
- Professional Webpage
- David Silva on Google Scholar
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- Areas of teaching: Research Methods and Statistics, Learning Theories, Motivation Theories
- Areas of research: STEM Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education; Conceptual Change; Motivation; Integrated STEM Education; Learning Technology; Quantitative Methods; Design Based Research; Implicit Bias in STEM Education
- Faculty Website
- Google Scholar
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Teaching: Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Areas of Research: Biological data analysis, Selfish genetic elements and genetic conflicts in the male germline
- Lab Website
- Google Scholar
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Teaching: Operating System, Embedded System, Computer Organization
- Areas of Research: Embedded System, AI on IoT
- Faculty Website
Professor
- Areas of teaching: Autonomous Control and Modeling
- Areas of research: Applications of AI in networked systems, Intelligent Systems
- Google Scholar
Professor of Computer Science
- Areas of Teaching: Operating Systems, Embedded Systems, and Programming
- Areas of Research: Real-Time Embedded Systems, Internet of Things (IoTs), Cloud Computing, and Smart Health Systems
- Google Scholar
