SCS Faculty, Students, and Staff

The Assistant Dean for Faculty is Dr. James E. Gentle

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Full-Time Faculty

Part-Time Faculty

Research Faculty

Visiting Faculty

Affiliate Faculty

Courtesy Appointments

Program 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
Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Astrophysics, applied 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.

Kirk Borne
Associate Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983. Astronomy, astrophysics.
Zafer Boybeyi
Associate Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1993. Mesoscale atmospheric modeling, atmospheric transport and dispersion.
Ann B. Butler
Professor; Ph. D., Case Western Reserve University, 1971. Neuroscience.

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.
Timothy DelSole
Associate Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993. Climate dynamics.
Liping Di
Professor; Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1991. GIS, remote sensing, interoperability.
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
Professor and Assistant Dean for PW Operations, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1980. Bioinformatics, computational biology.
Paul R. Houser
Associate Professor of Global Hydrology; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996. Water dynamics, land surface.
Bohua Huang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992. General circulation models, seasonal variability.
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.
James L. Kinter III
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1984. General circulation modeling.
Ben Kirtman
Associate Professor of Climate Dynamics; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992.
Dmitri Klimov
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1992. Bioinformatics, protein folding.
Barry Klinger
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1992. Oceanography.
Rainald Löhner
Distinguished Professor of Fluid Dynamics; Ph.D., University College of Swansea (Wales, U.K.), 1984. Computational fluid dynamics.
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
Professor, Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, 1985. Computational materials science.
James L. Olds
Director, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Krasnow University Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987. Neuroscience.
Merav Opher
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1998. Astrophysics, solar atmosphere, space weather.
Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos
Professor; Ph.D., The University of London, 1967. Solid state physics.
John Qu
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1997. Remote sensing.
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
Distinguished Professor of Climate Dynamices; 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
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1985. Atmospheric physics.
George E. Taylor, Jr.
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Computational Sciences; Ph.D., Emory University, 1976. Environmental sciences, ecology, air quality.
Jeff Tollaksen
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Boston University, 2002. Quantum processes.
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.
Robert S. Weigel
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2000. Magnetospheric physics, space weather, and geomagnetism.
Jennifer Weller
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Montana, 1990. Gene expression analysis.
James Willett
Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965. Biochemistry, applied cell biology, genetics.
David W. Wong
Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1990. Geography, spatial analysis and statistics, GIS.
Chaowei Yang
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Peking University, 2000. Cartography, GIS.
Chi Yang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1988. Computational fluid dynamics, numerical ship hydrodynamics.
Ruixin Yang
Associate 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.
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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