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The Assistant Dean for Faculty is Dr. James E. Gentle Full-Time Faculty Part-Time Faculty Research Faculty Courtesy Appointments Visiting Faculty Students Staff Administration   Full-Time Faculty Sheryl Beach Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1990. Physical geography, hydrology, ground water, GIS. Peter A. Becker Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Astrophysics, computational mathematics.   Avrama L. Blackwell Associate Professor; Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Computational neurobiology.   Estela Blaisten-Barojas Professor; Ph.D., Universite de Paris VI (France), 1974. Computational physics, condensed matter physics.   Juan Raul Cebral Associate Professor; Ph.D., George Mason University, 1996. Computational fluid dynamics.   Long S. Chiu Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980. Earth observation, meteorology.   Claudio Cioffi-Revilla Professor of Computational Social Sciences; Ph.D., University of Florence, Italy, 1977. Complexity theory, social science, computational modeling.   James E. Gentle University Professor and Assistant Dean for Faculty, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., Texas A & M, 1974. Computational statistics, numerical analysis.   John J. Grefenstette Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1980. Bioinformatics, computational biology.   M. Saleet Jafri Associate Professor; Ph.D., CUNY/Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1993. Cellular signaling, protein structure, high-performance computing.   D. Curtis Jamison Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Denver, 1992. Bioinformatics.   Menas Kafatos University Professor and Dean, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972. Astrophysics, space sciences, Earth observing, informatics.   Jason M. Kinser Associate Professor; D.Sc., South Eastern Institute of Technology, 1993. Bioinformatics, computational biology.   Ben Kirtman Associate Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992. Climate dynamics, coupled ocean-atmosphere predictability.   Barry Klinger Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1992. Oceanography.   Rainald Lohner Professor; Ph.D., University College of Swansea (Wales, U.K.), 1984. Computational fluid dynamics.   Keith McKenney Associate Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1982. Microbial genomics and diversity.   Ryszard S. Michalski  Planning Research Corporation Professor of Computational Sciences and Information Technology, Ph.D., The Silesian University of Technology, 1969. Machine learning and inference, knowledge mining, computational intelligence.   Yuri Mishin Associate Professor, Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, 1985. Computational materials science.   Rita Sambruna Assistant Professor; Ph.D., International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, 1994. Astrophysics, X-ray astronomy.   Edwin K. Schneider Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976. Climate dynamics, climate system modeling.   Paul S. Schopf Professor and Assistant Dean for Research, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1978. Oceanography, climate dynamics.   Donald Seto Associate Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1987. Microbial genomics and diversity, applied cell biology and genetics.   Jagadish Shukla Professor; Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University, 1971; Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976. Climate dynamics, global change.   David M. Straus Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977. Atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric predictability, atmospheric waves.   Michael E. Summers Associate Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1985. Atmospheric physics.   George E. Taylor, Jr. Professor and Assistant Dean for Administration, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., Emory University, 1976. Environmental sciences, ecology, air quality.   Iosif Vaisman Associate Professor; Ph.D., U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1990. Bioinformatics   John F. Wallin Associate Professor; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1989. Astronomy, astrophysics.   Edward J. Wegman Dunn Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1968. Computational statistics.   Jennifer Weller Associate Professor; Ph.D. Bioinformatics.   James Willett Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965. Biochemistry, applied cell biology, genetics.   David W. Wong Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1990. Geography, spatial analysis and statistics, GIS.   Chi Yang Associate Professor; Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1988. Computational fluid dynamics, numerical ship hydrodynamics. Ruixin Yang Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1990. Data information systems. Stanley M. Zoltek Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York, 1976. Differential geometry.   Return to the TOP of this page   Part-Time Faculty James H. Beall Senior Contract Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1979. Astrophysics, space sciences.   Timothy DelSole Associate Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993. Climate dynamics.   John Guillory Senior Contract Professor; Ph.D., University of California, 1970. Plasma science.   Bohua Huang Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992. General circulation models, seasonal variability.   James L. Kinter III Associate Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1984. General circulation modeling.   V. Krishnamurthy Contract Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. Climate dynamics, chaos.   Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos Senior Contract Professor; Ph.D., The University of London, 1967. Solid state physics.   Jeffrey L. Solka Contract Assistant Professor; Ph.D., George Mason University, 1995. Computational statistics.   Kent S. Wood Senior Contract Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973. Astrophysics, space sciences.   Return to the TOP of this page   Research Faculty   Zafer Boybeyi Research Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1993. Atmospheric dispersion.   Liping Di Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1991. Remote sensing.   Richard B. Gomez Research Professor; Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 1976. Hyperspectral imaging, remote sensing.   Yimin Ji Research Scientist; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1995. Remote sensing.   Kenneth Kaufman Research Associate Professor; Ph.D., George Mason University, 1998. Data mining and knowledge discovery, machine learning.   John M. Kwiatkowski Principal Research Scientist; Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, 1995. Remote sensing.   John Qu Principal Research Scientist; Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1997. Remote sensing.   Lev Titarchuk Research Professor, Ph.D., Space Research Institute (Moscow), 1972. Astrophysics.   Chaowei Yang Research Scientist; Ph.D., Peking University, 2000. Cartography, GIS.   Wenli Yang Principal Research Scientist; Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Remote sensing.   Return to the TOP of this page   Courtesy Appointments   Giorgio Ascoli Associate Professor; Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy), 1996. Computational neuroanatomy. W. Murray Black Professor and Founding Dean, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., Penn State University, 1971. Electrical engineering, materials science. Daniel Carr Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1976. Computational statistics.   Patrick Gillevet Research Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Manitoba, 1982. Bioinformatics.   Larry Kerschberg Professor; Ph.D., Case Western, 1969. Software engineering, intelligent databases.   B. Joseph Lieb Professor; Ph.D., William and Mary, 1971. Experimental nuclear physics.   Jeng-Eng Lin Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brown University, 1976. Nonlinear partial differential equations. James L. Olds Director, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Krasnow University Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987. Neuroscience.   Shobita Satyapal Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1995. Infrared astronomy and instrumentation.   Timothy D. Sauer Professor; Ph.D., University of California, 1982. Chaos, dynamical systems.   David A. Schum Professor; Ph.D., Methodist University, 1964. Operations research.   Xiaoyang Wang Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1992. Data management and data mining.   Return to the TOP of this page   Visiting Faculty   Otthein Herzog Distinguished Visiting Professor. Computational Intelligence.     Karl Pribram Distinguished Visiting Professor. Neuroscience.     Malabika Roy Visiting Scientist; Ph.D., Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1988. Remote sensing.     Sisir Roy Distinguished Visiting Professor. Remote sensing.     Return to the TOP of this page   Administration   Menas Kafatos Dean   Peter A. Becker Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies   James E. Gentle Assistant Dean for Faculty   Paul S. Schopf Assistant Dean for Research   George E. Taylor, Jr. Assistant Dean for Administration   Return to the TOP of this page Staff   Shealia M. Brown Executive Secretary Senior.   Louise Equi Senior Fiscal Technician.   Gail Hodges Student Services Coordinator.   Duane King Systems Engineer.   Yang Liu Computer Engineer.   Chris Ryan Computer Systems Administrator.   Maria Walters Senior Fiscal Technician.   Glenda Wilson Professional Training Coordinator.     Return to the TOP of this page

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