Data Science Faculty

Department Chair

Laura Brown

Primary Program Faculty

  • Professor, Computer Science
  • Associate Dean of Data Science Initiatives, College of Computing
  • Director, Data Science, M.S. and B.S. Programs

Area of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Data Mining and Data Science
  • Applications of AI and ML to Energy (microgrids, power systems), Health, and other domains
  • Executive Director, Great Lakes Research Center
  • Executive Director, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
  • William and Gloria Jackson Professor

Links of Interest

Areas of Interest

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Signal and Image Processing
  • Sensor and Data Fusion
  • Heterogeneous Data Mining
  • Associate Professor, Applied Computing
  • Graduate Program Director, MS in Health Informatics
  • Graduate Program Director, PhD in Computational Science and Engineering

Research Interests

  • Human Health-focused ML/DL and Computer Vision
  • Large-scale Cybersecurity architectures
  • mHealth
  • Biometric development
  • Intelligent medical devices

Links of Interest

Personal Webpage

Teaching Interests

  • Cybersecurity
  • Medical/Health Informatics
  • Data Science
  • Network Engineering
  • Assistant Professor, Applied Computing
  • Member, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems

Links of Interest

Kaushal MIND Lab

Research Interests

  • AI/ML-based Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Design
  • Chemical Language Modeling
  • Explainable ML
  • Cheminformatics
  • Dave House Dean of Computing
  • Professor, Applied Computing
  • Affiliated Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry

Research Expertise

  • Computational Biophysics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Protein Dynamics
  • Protein Engineering
  • Data Science

Academic Interests

  • Innovation in Computing and Technology Education
  • Broadening Participation in STEM
  • Enrollment Management
  • Research Administration
Evan Lucas

Evan Lucas

  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Links of Interest

Faculty Webpage

Area on Interest

  •  Machine Learning for Signal Processing and Environmental Sensing
  • Image Enhancement
  • Large Language Model Memorization and Watermarking
  • Acoustic Signal Processing
  • Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Links of Interest

Data Science

Google Scholar

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Data Science and Data Mining
  • Applications of AI, ML/DL, and Data Science to Cybersecurity, Medical Image Analysis, Healthcare Systems, and Speech Enhancement.
  • Associate Professor, Health Informatics, Applied Computing
  • Affiliated Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences

Teaching Interests

  • Medical Informatics
  • Medical Image Analysis

Areas of Expertise

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Health Informatics
  • Text Mining