Faculty and Administration

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Instructional Faculty

Robert Axtell
Professor
Co-director, Computational Public Policy Lab
Computational social science and public policy
rax222@gmu.edu

Estela Blaisten-Barojas
Professor
Director, Computational Materials Science Center
Computational Physics, Modeling and Simulation of Soft Materials and Nanostructures
blaisten@gmu.edu

Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Professor
Director, Center for Social Complexity
Quantitative, mathematical, and simulation models applied to complex human and social systems
ccioffi@gmu.edu
Fall 2017 Office Hours: TH 3-4 pm; by appointment

Andrew Crooks
Associate Professor
CSS Graduate Coordinator
Agent-based modeling, GIscience, Urban Geography, Computational Social Science
acrooks2@gmu.edu

Jason Kinser
Computational and Data Sciences Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Image processing, multi-domain data, pulse images
jkinser@gmu.edu

Joseph Marr
Term Associate Professor
CDS Undergraduate Coordinator
Data Science
jmarr2@gmu.edu

Fall 2017 Office Hours:
CDS-130: M 6- 7 pm | T 3-4 pm; by appointment
Advising Hours: F 9-11 am; by appointment

Matthias Renz
Associate Professor
Databases, Search Algorithms, Big Data Management.
mrenz@gmu.edu
Fall 2017 Office Hours: M 3-4 pm; by appointment

Qing Tian
Assistant Professor
Land use, development, human-environment systems, and complex adaptive systems
qtian2@gmu.edu

Edward Wegman
Bernard J. Dunn Professor
Computational Statistics
ewegman@gmu.edu

Stanley Zoltek
Associate Professor
Differential Geometry
szoltek@gmu.edu

Affiliate Faculty

Igor Griva
Associate Professor
Nonlinear Optimization and Applications
igriva@gmu.edu

Bill Kennedy
Research Assistant Professor
Cognitive science, behavioral modeling
wkennedy@gmu.edu

Dmitri Klimov
Associate Professor
Simulations of protein aggregation and membrane-protein interactions
dklimov@gmu.edu

Howard Sheng
Associate Professor
Structural ordering and polyamorphism in liquids and glasses
hsheng@gmu.edu

Nektaria Tryfona
Director, Educational Initiatives
College of Science
Databases, STEM Education, Computing Education
 ntryfona@gmu.edu

Research Faculty & Fellows

Foteini (Claire) Komninelli
Research Associate, Computational Materials Science Center (CMaSC)
Algorithms for robotics
 fkomnine@gmu.edu

Andrew Shabaev
Research Associate Professor, Computational Materials Science Center (CMaSC)
Computational Materials Science
 ashabaev@gmu.edu

Roman Vaxenburg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Materials Science Center (CMaSC)
Semiconductor Nanomaterials
 rvaxenbu@gmu.edu

Retired Faculty

Murray Black
Professor Emeritus
Founding Dean of the School of Computational Sciences
mblack@gmu.edu