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Leah Ding Provost Associate Professor of Computer Science CAS | Computer Science

Dr. Ding is broadly interested in trustworthy AI/machine learning for science and cybersecurity. She brings extensive experience in AI/ML and cybersecurity R&D from her time in industry. Prior to

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Jeffrey Adler Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Jeffrey Adler conducts research mainly in harmonic analysis and representation theory (which can be thought of as the study of symmetry from a formal point of view), and also occasionally supervises

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Brie Anderson Associate Professor CAS | Physics

BioI am an experimental physicist (although experimentalists do theory too!) working in the fields of classical and quantum optics, atomic physics, and quantum information. I often teach quantum

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Zois Boukouvalas Associate Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Dr. Boukouvalas' research focuses on the development of interpretable machine learning models and algorithms for the analysis of big multi-modal data, by combining aspects from information geometry,

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Stephen Casey Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Stephen Casey is a founding member of the Editorial Board for Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (STSIP) and an Associate Editor of The Journal of Signal and Image Processing. He was

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Roberto Corizzo Assistant Professor CAS | Computer Science

Roberto Corizzo conducts research at the intersection of machine learning, big data computing, and data mining. His research addresses analytical tasks such as sensor data forecasting, time series

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Kristina Crona Associate Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Dr. Crona's research area is mathematical evolutionary biology, with focus on adaptation. An important application is antimicrobial drug resistance, where the goal is to predict, prevent and manage

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Artur Elezi Associate Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Prior to joining AU in 2002, Dr Elezi held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University and Brigham Young University. His training is in applications of Algebraic Geometry in High Energy Physics,

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David Gerard Associate Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

David obtained a bachelor's in Mathematics and Molecular Genetics, followed by a master's in Statistics at The Ohio State University before pursuing a PhD in Statistics at the University of

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Alex Godwin Assistant Professor CAS | Computer Science

My research is focused on using information visualization and novel interaction techniques to make civic data more accessible. If you are a student interested in community policies, maps, art, social

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Silvina Guidoni Associate Professor CAS | Physics

Professor Guidoni studies bursts on the Sun that are so powerful they can shake our technological world, and she brings students along for the ride.And students don’t just watch, they participate.

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Jeffrey Hakim Professor and Department Chair, Math & Statistics CAS | Math and Statistics

Jeffrey Hakim’s research primarily lies within the broad mathematical areas of representation theory and harmonic analysis. Most recently, he has focused on supercuspidal representations and

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Gregory Harry Professor CAS | Physics

My research is on gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity and come from astronomical events like black holes, neutron stars, pulsars, and the Big

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Nathan Harshman Professor CAS | Physics

OverviewNathan (Nate) Harshman is a mathematical and theoretical physicist specializing in the study of symmetry and topology in quantum systems. He has published over sixty articles and book

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Nathalie Japkowicz Professor CAS | Computer Science

Nathalie Japkowicz is a professor in the Computer Science Department at American University, which she chaired from July 2018 to June 2024. Prior to that, she directed the Laboratory for Research on

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Philip Johnson Associate Professor and Department Chair, Physics CAS | Physics

I am a theoretical physicist whose research ranges from exploring the quantum world to studying emergent complexity in computational systems. I am dedicated to building a thriving, inclusive

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Johannes Ulf Lange Assistant Professor CAS | Physics

I am an astrophysicist studying cosmology and galaxies using large data sets and machine learning. My work addresses some of the most fundamental questions about our Universe: What are the properties

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Joshua Lansky Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Dr. Lansky attended Brown University as an undergraduate. He graduated magna cum laude with Honors in 1993 with an ScB degree in mathematics and physics. He did his graduate study in mathematics at

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Jun Lu Associate Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Jun Lu got his Bachelor's degree in statistics from East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, his hometown. he then went to University of Missouri-Columbia, from where he received his Ph.D. in

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Betty Malloy Professor and Director of the Data Science Programs CAS | Math and Statistics

I am an applied statistician with a primary focus in biostatistics. My main interest is in applications to occupational and environmental health settings, although I have had the privilege of working

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Ahmad Mousavi Assistant Professor CAS | Math and Statistics

Dr. Mousavi completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Informatics Institute at the University of Florida. Prior to this, he held a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Mathematics and its

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Mark Nelson Associate Professor CAS | Computer Science

I'm a computer scientist with a background in artificial intelligence (AI). My research focuses mostly on AI & games, especially procedural content generation and automated game design. I've also

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Mohammad Owrang Professor CAS | Computer Science

M. Mehdi Owrang is currently a professor of Computer Science in the department of Computer Science at American University in Washington, DC. Dr. Owrang has received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer

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Mike Treanor Associate Professor and Department Chair, Computer Science CAS | Computer Science

Mike Treanor is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at American University. His research develops AI systems for interactive media that can represent complex ideas

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  (202) 885-2749

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Patrick Wu Assistant Professor CAS | Computer Science

Prof. Patrick Wu's research focuses on developing AI/ML and natural language processing approaches to computational social science. These methods address research questions about topics such as

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Bei Xiao Provost Associate Professor CAS | Computer Science

Dr. Bei Xiao's research focuses on how the human visual system estimate physical and functional properties of objects in our surroundings. Another focus of her research is to apply results from human

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