Areas: ISE, DSA
Research Interests:
Operations research/management, science mathematical programming, metaheuristic and evolutionary search, network flows, and applications of data mining.
Ph.D., Operations Research, Southern Methodist University
M.S., Decision Technologies, University of North Texas
cnicholson@ou.edu
CEC, Rm. 116H
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katelyn.scott-grubb@ou.edu
datascience@ou.edu
(405) 325-6417
Felgar Hall, Rm. 213
865 Asp Ave., Norman, OK 73019
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development
rlshehab@ou.edu
(405) 325-4277
CEC, Rm. 107
sridhar@ou.edu
(405) 325-2319
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Areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests:
Design, implementation and analysis of network protocols and algorithms for broadband, wireless, and mobile networks; IoT and SDN development; high performance computing
Ph.D., Systems Engineering, University of Virginia
M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Areas: ISE and DSA
Research Interests:
Resilient networks, supply chains, Interdependent systems, Risk and decision analytics, Systems engineering for societal good
kashbarker@ou.edu
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Ph.D., Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Areas: Polytechnic Institute and DSA; Data Visualization; Professional Practice
Research Interests: Applied Artificial Intelligence
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Utah
Areas: Computer Science, Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Dialogue and Discourse, Structured Prediction, Trustworthy AI for Education and Healthcare
Ph.D. in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Computer Science, B.Sc. in Computer Science
(405) 325-4042
Areas: School of Computer Science
Research Interests: Design, development, and validation of surgical simulators, Interactive Simulations, Extended Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Haptics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Ph.D., Systems and Security, University of South Florida
M.S., Communication and Information Systems, Henan Polytechnic University
Areas: CS and DSA
Research Interests: Novel mobile system design, network science, mobile and network security, machine learning for network and security applications. Parallel and distributed computing, graph algorithms, and operating systems.
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Areas: Computer Science, Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests: Machine learning, randomized search heuristics, algorithms and complexity
diochnos@ou.edu
325-2978 | Devon Energy Hall, Room 230
Personal Website
Areas: DSAI, GCoE, CEES
Research Interests: Coupled model systems – Meteorology, Hydrology, Hydraulic and Hydrodynamics to capture flooding due to Tropical Cyclones; computational hydrodynamic modeling for tidal variations and hurricane storm surges; computational hydrology and hydraulics with application to inland flood modeling; groundwater modeling; numerical methods; high performance computing.
Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, The University of Oklahoma
M.Sc., Data Science & Analytics, The University of Oklahoma
B.Sc., Systems Engineering, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia
Areas: Data Science and Analytics, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO)
Research interests: Applied Machine Learning; Predictive Modeling; Data‑Driven Research and Applications; High‑Performance Computing; AI/ML Applications for Hydrology, Weather, and Climate; Hydroinformatics; Data Analytics; Internet of Things (IoT); Telecommunications; Software Defined Radio (SDR).
jduarte@ou.edu
(405)-325-6483
Ph.D., Systems Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton
Areas: Biomedical Engineering, Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests: Network neuroscience, Network science, Computational Neuroscience
fzamani@ou.edu
(405) 325-6246
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California
M.S., Computer Science, University of Southern California
Areas: CS, Bioengineering, DSA
Research Interests: Machine learning, robotics, computational neuroscience, brain-machine interfaces and interactive art
andrewhfagg@gmail.com
(405) 325-8606
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Ph.D., University of South Florida
Areas: CS, DSA
Research Interests: Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Privacy; Wireless and Mobile System Security; Mobile Computing; Application of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity
songf@ou.edu
(405) 325-3536
Areas: Meteorology and DSA
Research Interests: Programming for Meteorology, Information Technology Skills, Weather Simulation With Computers, Climate and Renewable Energy
Areas: DSA
Research Interests: DSA 5061 Python for DSA-fundamental principles of Object-Oriented Programming and their application in data science and analytics.
Ph.D. in Economics, Syracuse University
M.S. in Quantitative Economics, Indian Statistical Institute
Areas: Economics, DSA
Research Interests: Labor Economics, Econometrics, and Development Economics
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Ph.D., Computer Science, Southern Methodist University
M.S., Computer Science, University of Houston
Areas: CS and DSA
Research Interests: Database Management, Information Privacy and Security. Mobile and distributed databases, multimedia databases, real-time databases, object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and data mining
ggruenwald@ou.edu
(405) 325-3498
Personal Website
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
M.Eng. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore
Areas: School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering; Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests: Computational Catalysis, Kinetic Modeling, High-throughput (HT) Computations, Machine Learning, Material Design and Discovery for Sustainable Energy Applications (Water Electrolyzers, Fuel Cells, CO2 conversion to useful products, Ammonia production, etc)
kasun.gunasooriya@ou.edu
(405) 325-3518
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Ph.D., Computer Science, Rice University
M.S., Electrical and Control Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran
Areas: CS and DSA
Research Interests: Robotics, autonomous driving, computer vision, multi-agent systems, machine learning, reinforcement learning, autonomous control and navigation systems
Ph.D., University of Florida
Areas: ISE
Research Interests: Mathematical optimization theory and its applications in medical decision making and cyber-physical-social systems
Ph.D. in Engineering, Universidad de los Andes
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Rice University
Areas: ISE and DSA
Research Interests: Modeling and optimizing cyber-physical-social systems. Measuring and optimizing resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks. Developing decentralized and distributed control and optimization models
Ph.D., Toronto Metropolitan University
Areas: ECE, BME, AME, DSA
Research Interests: Real-time Early Cancer Diagnosis, Machine learning assisted Liquid Biopsy, Tumor microenvironment profiling, Patient-specific AI driven cancer models, Digital biomarker discovery, Nanosensing.
Ph.D., Computer Science, Graduate Minor, Cognitive Science, The University of Minnesota
Areas: CS and DSA
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, robotics, machine learning, multi-agent systems, and knowledge-based systems
hougen@ou.edu
(405) 325-3150
Personal Website
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY
Research Interests: Cyber and cyber-physical systems security & user-privacy, with a special focus on the topics of Mobile & IoT Security, Distributed Systems Security, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Incentive-based Mechanism Design for Security, Adversarial Machine Learning and Design of Mobile/Ubiquitous Sensing Algorithms, Systems and Applications.
Ph.D. Purdue University
Areas: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research Interests: Human factors, Human-centered computing, Biometric data analytics, Eye tracking data analytics, Human-computer interaction, Virtual reality, Aerospace, Healthcare
Ph.D. in Systems Science, State University of New York at Binghamton
Areas: Computer Science
Research Interests: Neural Data Science, Neural Dynamics, Network Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Signal Processing
sinakhan@ou.edu
(405) 325-1792
Lab Website
Ph.D. in Economics, Boston University
Areas: Economics
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Network and Welfare Analysis, Applied Econometrics
Ph.D. Grenoble Alpes University
Areas: School of Meteorology, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science. Faculty member with the Advanced Radar Research Center and an affiliate of the National Severe Storms Laboratory here in Norman.
Research Interests: Precipitation processes, variability, and microphysics, Extreme precipitation and flood events, Radar and satellite remote sensing, Radar Meteorology - Radar Hydrology, Remote sensing of atmospheric water vapor for tropical and subtropical climates, Hydrometeorology – Applied mathematics – Statistics – Geostatistics.
pierre.kirstetter@ou.edu
405-325-6092
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Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle
Areas: MIS, DSA
Research Interests: Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence
naveen.kumar@ou.edu
(405) 325-3565
Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame
Areas: School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Data Science and Analytics Institute, Civil engineering, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, computational statistics, resilience engineering
Research Interests: Efficient coastal hazard risk estimation and mitigation, infrastructure reliability and sustainability assessments, improvement of community level structural resiliency against natural hazards, multi-hazard risk assessment, development of efficient data-driven tools using computational statistics for solving engineering problems
akypriot@ou.edu
(405) 325-5911
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science
Research Interests: Dynamic Data Assimilation, Big Data Analytics, Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Parallel Computation
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Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas
Areas: CS, DSA
Research Interests: Machine learning, algorithmic ethics and anomaly detection
clan@ou.edu
(405)325-5735
Personal Website
Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
Areas: ISE, DSA
Research Interests: Data-driven and Multi-modality Modeling, Spectral Theory-based Graph AI, Natural Language Processing
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University M.S., Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University
Areas: CS, DSA
Research Interests: Privacy and Security, micromobility and urban planning, cyber-physical systems, Information Assurance, Network Security, Blockchains, Machine and Deep Learning, artificial intelligence
am@ou.edu
(405) 325-4951
Personal Website
Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Marketing, Northwestern University
Ph.D. in Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago
Areas: Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests: Computational Social Sciences, Network Theory, Creator Economy, Graph-based Recommender systems
pmal@ou.edu
(405) 325-3561
Personal Website
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Areas: CS, ISE, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Data Science
Research Interests: Computational medicine, Multidimensional imaging and quantitative biology, and Tissue engineering.
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut
Areas: CS, DSA
Research Interests: Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Computational Genomics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Single Cell Omics, and Cancer Immunomics
marmar.moussa@ou.edu
(405) 325-5427
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Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Oklahoma
M.S., Data Science & Analytics, University of Oklahoma
Areas: Computer Science, Data Science & Analytics
Research Interests: Biomedical image processing, computer vision, deep learning
sanjana@ou.edu
(405) 325-5427
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Ph.D., 2006, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Areas: Computer Science, Microbiology, Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests: Proteomics, Environmental Microbiomes, Human Microbiomes, Prebiotics and Probiotics, Bioinformatics, medical informatics, explainable machine learning, computer vision, parallel computing, data science.
cpan@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-2972
Lab Website
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas: CEES, ECE, DSA
Research Interests: Nonlinear Dynamics, Hysteresis Modeling, Interpretable Machine Learning, Memristors, Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Postdoctoral Research Associate - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida
Areas: CS and DSA
Research Interests: Visualization and Graphics, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, Perception and Cognition Science, Explainable ML and AI Models, Human-Computer Teaming, Information Accessibility, Data Science, Health and Humanities: Visualization for Social Good
Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Areas: ISE, DSA
Research Interests: Operations research and data science with expertise in optimization, machine learning, and network modeling. Specializes in developing algorithmic solutions for cyber-physical systems, critical infrastructure networks, infrastructure resilience, transportation systems optimization, and supply chain risk assessment. Research focuses on game-theoretic frameworks for decentralized decision-making, predictive analytics for interdependent infrastructure networks, and simulation-optimization models for critical systems. Applications include traffic flow optimization, cascading failure analysis in power and transportation networks, and data-driven approaches to enhance system efficiency and resilience under uncertainty.
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Central Florida
Areas: Industrial Systems and Engineering and Data Science and Analytics Institute
Research Interests: Machine learning with imperfect data, health disparities, disease risk stratification and outcome prediction, AI-based community health monitoring and control, predictive analytics with applications in cyber-physical systems and manufacturing
talayeh.razzaghi@ou.edu
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PhD, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Areas: Geoscience, DSA
Research Interests: 1) Hillslope process and hazards; 2) Soil-geomorphic evolution; 3) Terrain mapping and terrain mechanics; 4) Machine learning
netraregmi@ou.edu
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University,
M.S., Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
B.S., Manufacturing Systems & Design Engineering, Northumbria University at Newcastle, U.K.,
B.S., Manufacturing Systems & Design Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Areas: ISE, DSAI
Research Interests: Advanced manufacturing, In-situ quality assurance, complex systems, network science, ontology, swarm Intelligence
roh@ou.edu
(405) 325-3721
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Areas: Mathematics and Statistics, Data Science and Analytics
Research Interests: Introduction to R, Advanced R, Bayesian Statistics, Applied Statistical Methods, Applied Regression Analysis, Advanced Applied Statistics
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University; M.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Areas: ISE, DSA
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Optimization, Supply chains, Robust AI
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Areas: CS, DSA
Research Interests: Research in all facets of High Performance Computing (HPC) including code synthesis for performance, parallel algorithm design; crafting libraries for computational linear algebra, signal processing, graph analytics; studying relationship between data and computer architecture, parallel hardware, accelerators, reconfigurable logic and distributed systems.
Ph.D. in University of Missouri
Chair: Eurekia Cosey with AT&T
