People

Alam, MD Mahfuz Ibn
Assistant Teaching Professor of Data Science
Office: ISC 2265
Email: [[malam02]]
Areas of Interest: Natural Language Processing, Speech, Vision

Chen, Haipeng
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 1261
Email: [[w|hchen23]]
Areas of Interest: AI for Social Impact, including AI techniques such as Reinforcement Learning, Generative AI, Optimization, and application domains such Health, Environment, and Physical Sciences.
Webpage: {{https://haipeng-chen.github.io/, Personal Website}}
Office Hours: Mondays 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Fanelli, Cristiano
Associate Professor of Data Science; Director of Technology
Office: Integrated Science Center 1265
Email: [[w|cfanelli]]
Areas of Interest: Developing and applying AI/ML algorithms and data science tools for the Jefferson Lab and the Electron Ion Collider science, spanning from design, fast/accurate reconstructions and analyses, to anomaly detection
Webpage: {{https://cristianofanelli.com/, Personal Website}}
Office Hours:

Ford, Trenton
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 3277
Email: [[w|twford]]
Areas of Interest: Media and Misinformation

He, Yi
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Office: ISC 2271
Email: [[yihe]]
Areas of Interest: Streaming Data Analytics, Graph Learning Algorithms, Real-Time Decision-Making Systems, AI for Conservation Study
Webpage: {{https://yhe15.people.wm.edu/,Personal Website}}

Khaldi, Rohaifa
Assistant Teaching Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 0269
Email: [[rkhaldi]]
Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Geospatial Analysis, Foundation Models, GenAI, Forecasting, Remote Sensing

Nwala, Alexander
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 1271
Email: [[w|acnwala]]
Areas of Interest: Social media/network analysis, computational social science, web/data science, web archiving, (local)news, and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Webpage: {{https://alexandernwala.com/, Personal Website}}
Office Hours:

Runfola, Dan
Chair of Data Science | Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 1269
Email: [[w|dsmillerrunfol]]
Areas of Interest: Computational Geography, Human-Environment Relations, Geospatial Analysis
Webpage: {{http://www.danrunfola.com, Personal Website}}

Smith, Ron
Associate Teaching Professor of Data Science
Office: ISC 2267
Email: [[w|rdsmith]]
Areas of Interest: Genomics, Monte Carlo Simulation, humility and sharing knowledge
Webpage: {{https://www.wm.edu/as/data-science/index.php, Data Science Website}}
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Stefanidis, Anthony
Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 1267
Email: [[w|astefanidis]]
Areas of Interest: GeoSocial Analysis and Digital Image Analysis
Webpage: {{https://anthonystefanidis.com/, Personal Website}}

Swenson, Jennifer
Director of the Center for Geospatial Analysis and Associate Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 3273
Email: [[w|jjswenson]]
Areas of Interest: Climate and land cover change and the effects on biodiversity using the tools of geospatial analysis and remotely-sensed Earth observations
Webpage: {{https://swensonlab.weebly.com, Personal Website}}

Vasiliu, Daniel
Associate Teaching Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center 2269
Email: [[w|dvasiliu]]
Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Biomathematics and Calculus of Variations
Webpage: {{https://www.wm.edu/as/data-science/, Data Science Website}}

Wang, Jindong
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Office: ISC 2273
Email: [[jwang80]]
Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Transfer Learning, Foundation Models, Large Language Models, Generative AI, AI for Social Sciences
Webpage: {{https://jd92.wang/,Personal Website}}

Wang, Qingyun
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Office: Integrated Science Center
Email: [[w|qwang16]]
Areas of Interest: Natural Language Processing, AI for Scientist
Webpage: {{https://eaglew.github.io/, Personal Website}}

Xiong, Yanhai
Assistant Professor
Office: Integrated Science Center 2279
Email: [[w|yxiong05]]
Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence for cyber-physical systems, including decision making and cybersecurity