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SCS Faculty, Students, and Staff
The Assistant Dean for Faculty is Dr. James E. Gentle
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Full-Time Faculty
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Sheryl Beach
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1990.
Physical geography, hydrology, ground water, GIS.
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Peter A. Becker
Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of
Computational Sciences; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Astrophysics,
applied mathematics.
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Avrama L. Blackwell
Associate Professor; Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Computational
neurobiology.
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Estela Blaisten-Barojas
Professor; Ph.D., Universite de Paris VI (France), 1974. Computational
physics, condensed matter physics.
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Kirk Borne
Associate Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983.
Astronomy, astrophysics.
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Zafer Boybeyi
Associate Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1993. Mesoscale atmospheric modeling, atmospheric transport and dispersion.
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Ann B. Butler
Professor; Ph. D., Case Western Reserve University, 1971. Neuroscience.
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Juan Raul Cebral
Associate Professor; Ph.D., George Mason University, 1996. Computational fluid dynamics.
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Long S. Chiu
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980.
Earth observation, meteorology.
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Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Professor of Computational Social Sciences; Ph.D., University of Florence,
Italy, 1977. Complexity theory, social science, computational modeling.
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Timothy DelSole
Associate Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D.,
Harvard University, 1993. Climate dynamics.
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Liping Di
Professor; Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1991. GIS,
remote sensing, interoperability.
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James E. Gentle
University Professor and Assistant Dean for Faculty, School of Computational
Sciences; Ph.D., Texas A & M, 1974. Computational statistics, numerical
analysis.
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John J. Grefenstette
Professor and Assistant Dean for PW Operations, School
of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1980.
Bioinformatics, computational biology.
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Paul R. Houser
Associate Professor of Global Hydrology; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996.
Water dynamics, land surface.
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Bohua Huang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992.
General circulation models, seasonal variability.
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M. Saleet Jafri
Associate Professor; Ph.D., CUNY/Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1993.
Cellular signaling, protein structure, high-performance computing.
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D. Curtis Jamison
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Denver, 1992. Bioinformatics.
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Menas Kafatos
University Professor and Dean, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972. Astrophysics, space sciences,
Earth observing, informatics.
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Jason M. Kinser
Associate Professor; D.Sc., South Eastern Institute of Technology, 1993.
Bioinformatics, computational biology.
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James L. Kinter III
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1984. General
circulation modeling.
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Ben Kirtman
Associate Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992.
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Dmitri Klimov
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1992.
Bioinformatics, protein folding.
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Barry Klinger
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1992. Oceanography.
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Rainald Löhner
Distinguished Professor of Fluid Dynamics;
Ph.D., University College of Swansea (Wales, U.K.), 1984.
Computational fluid dynamics.
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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.
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Yuri Mishin
Professor, Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, 1985.
Computational materials science.
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James L. Olds
Director, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Krasnow University
Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987. Neuroscience.
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Merav Opher
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1998.
Astrophysics, solar atmosphere, space weather.
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Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos
Professor; Ph.D., The University of London, 1967. Solid state physics.
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John Qu
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1997. Remote sensing.
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Edwin K. Schneider
Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976.
Climate dynamics, climate system modeling.
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Paul S. Schopf
Professor and Assistant Dean for Research, School of Computational Sciences;
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1978. Oceanography, climate dynamics.
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Donald Seto
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1987. Microbial
genomics and diversity, applied cell biology and genetics.
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Jagadish Shukla
Distinguished Professor of Climate Dynamices;
Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University, 1971; Sc.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1976. Climate dynamics, global change.
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David M. Straus
Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977.
Atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric predictability, atmospheric waves.
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Michael E. Summers
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1985.
Atmospheric physics.
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George E. Taylor, Jr.
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Computational
Sciences; Ph.D., Emory University, 1976. Environmental sciences, ecology,
air quality.
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Jeff Tollaksen
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Boston University, 2002. Quantum processes.
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Iosif Vaisman
Associate Professor; Ph.D., U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1990.
Bioinformatics.
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John F. Wallin
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1989. Astronomy,
astrophysics.
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Edward J. Wegman
Dunn Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1968. Computational statistics.
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Robert S. Weigel
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2000. Magnetospheric
physics, space weather, and geomagnetism.
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Jennifer Weller
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Montana, 1990. Gene expression analysis.
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James Willett
Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965. Biochemistry,
applied cell biology, genetics.
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David W. Wong
Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1990.
Geography, spatial analysis and statistics, GIS.
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Chaowei Yang
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Peking University, 2000. Cartography, GIS.
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Chi Yang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1988. Computational
fluid dynamics, numerical ship hydrodynamics.
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Ruixin Yang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1990. Data
information systems.
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Stanley M. Zoltek
Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York, 1976. Differential
geometry.
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Jie Zhang
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1999. Solar physics,
space weather.
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Part-Time Faculty
Yakir
Aharonov
Distinguished Professor of
Theoretical Physics; Ph.D.,
Bristol University, 1960. Relativistic quantum field theory.
James
H. Beall
Senior Contract Professor; Ph.D.,
University of Maryland, 1979. Astrophysics, space sciences.
John Guillory
Senior Contract Professor; Ph.D.,
University of California, 1970. Plasma science.
V. Krishnamurthy
Contract Professor of Climate
Dynamics; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. Climate
dynamics, chaos.
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.
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Research Faculty
Ken Dere
Research Professor of Solar Physics;
Ph.D., Catholic University, 1980. Solar physics, space weather.
Felix A. Buot
Research Professor;
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1970. Theoretical solid state physics.
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.
John M. Kwiatkowski
Principal Research Scientist;
Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, 1995. Remote sensing.
Robert R. Meier
Research Professor of Space
Science;
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1966. Atmospheric science, space weather.
Arthur I. Poland
Research Scientist;
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1969. Solar atmosphere, space weather.
William E. Roper
Research Professor;
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1969. Environmental engineering.
Lev Titarchuk
Research Professor;
Dr. Sci., Space Research Institute (Moscow), 1972. Astrophysics.
Wenli Yang
Principal Research Scientist;
Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Remote sensing.
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Visiting Faculty
Karl Pribram
Distinguished Visiting Professor. Neuroscience.
Malabika Roy
Visiting Scientist; Ph.D., Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1988. Cosmology.
Sisir Roy
Distinguished Visiting Professor.
Statistical physics, cosmology.
Ramesh P. Singh
Distinguished Visiting
Professor; Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University, 1980. Remote sensing
applications, natural hazards.
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Affiliate Faculty
Michael D. King
Affiliate Senior Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1977. Remote sensing, multispectral radiative transfer.
Jon Ranson
Affiliate Senior Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1983. Remote sensing, forest ecosystems.
Compton J. Tucker
Affiliate Senior Professor; Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1975. Remote sensing, global ecology.
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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.
Daniel Houser
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1998. Experimental statistics and methods, applied econometrics.
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.
Kevin A. McCabe
Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1982. Neuroeconomics, experimental economics.
Mark Olson
Research Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1991. Economic systems design, experimental economics.
Roman Polyak
Professor; Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences, 1966. Optimization.
David Porter
Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1987. Economic systems design, experimental economics, organizational design.
Stephen Rassenti
Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1981. Economic systems design, experimental economics.
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.
Vernon Smith
Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1955. Experimental economics.
Clifton D. Sutton
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987. Applied statistics, robust regression, mathematical statistics.
Bart J. Wilson
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1997. Experimental economics, industrial organization.
Xiaoyang Wang
Associate Professor; Ph.D.,
University of Southern California, 1992. Data management and
data mining.
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Administration
Menas Kafatos
Dean
George E. Taylor, Jr.
Associate Dean
Peter A. Becker
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
James E. Gentle
Assistant Dean for Faculty
Paul S. Schopf
Assistant Dean for Research
John J. Grefenstette
Assistant Dean for PW Operations
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Staff
Susan Beale
Administrative Assistant
Barbara S. Cohen
Fiscal Administrator
Melissa C. Hayes
Administrative Office Specialist
Gail Hodges
Student Services Coordinator
Duane King
Systems Engineer
Katherine Lister
Human Resources Coordinator
Yang Liu
Computer Engineer
Chris Ryan
Computer Systems Administrator
Rhonda Troutman
Financial Administrator
Maria Walters
Senior Fiscal Technician
Glenda Wilson
Graduate Student Services Coordinator
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