Faculty and Administration
Email addresses are indicated by an envelope icon () and should be followed by “@gmu.edu”.
Administration
Jason Kinser
703-993-3785
jkinser@gmu.edu
CSI Graduate Coordinator – Computational Sciences and Informatics PhD, Computational Sciences MS and Graduate Certificate in Data Science programs
Eduardo Lopez
703-993-5916
elopez22@gmu.edu
CSS Graduate Coordinator – Computational Social Science PhD and Graduate Certificate in Computational Social Science programs
Andrew Crooks
703-993-4640
acrooks2@gmu.edu
Academic Programs Administrator
Karen Underwood
703-993-9298
kunderwo@gmu.edu
cds@gmu.edu
HR & Fiscal Specialist
Natalie Lapidot-Croitoru
703-993-5836
nlapidot@gmu.edu
CDS Undergraduate Coordinator
Zachary Henderson
703-993-4044
zhenders@gmu.edu
Instructional Faculty
Robert Axtell
Professor
Co-director, Computational Public Policy Lab
rax222@gmu.edu
Estela Blaisten-Barojas
Professor
Director, Computational Materials Science Center
blaisten@gmu.edu
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Professor
Director, Center for Social Complexity
ccioffi@gmu.edu
Andrew Crooks
Associate Professor
CSS Graduate Coordinator
acrooks2@gmu.edu
Michael Eagle
Assistant Professor
meagle@gmu.edu
James Glasbrenner
Assistant Professor
jglasbr2@gmu.edu
Bill Kennedy
Associate Professor (term teaching)
wkennedy@gmu.edu
Jason Kinser
Computational and Data Sciences Chair
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
jkinser@gmu.edu
Eduardo Lopez
Assistant Professor CSI / Comp Sci Graduate Coordinator
elopez22@gmu.edu
Joseph Marr
Associate Professor
CDS Undergraduate Coordinator
jmarr2@gmu.edu
Qing Tian
Assistant Professor
qtian2@gmu.edu
Research Faculty, Fellows, Adjuncts and Retired Faculty
Feras Batarseh
Adjunct
fbatarse@gmu.edu
Murray Black
Retired
Professor Emeritus
Founding Dean of the School of Computational Sciences
mblack@gmu.edu
James Gentle
Retired
University Professor
jgentle@gmu.edu
Igor Griva
Affiliate Associate Professor
igriva@gmu.edu
Dmitri Klimov
Affiliate Associate Professor
dklimov@gmu.edu
Muffarah Marr
Adjunct
mmarr@gmu.edu
Dimitrios
Papaconstan
-topoulos
Retired
Professor Emeritus
dpapacon@gmu.edu
Matthias Renz
Affiliate Faculty
mrenz@gmu.edu
Stephen Scott
Adjunct
sscotta@gmu.edu
Howard Sheng
Affiliate Associate Professor
hsheng@gmu.edu
Nektaria Tryfona
Affiliate
Director, Educational Initiatives
College of Science
ntryfona@gmu.edu
Edward Wegman
Retired, Bernard J.
-Dunn Professor
Computational Statistics
ewegman@gmu.edu
John Lyver
Adjunct
jlyver@gmu.edu
Instructional Faculty
| First | Last | Position | Research interests | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Andrew | Crooks | Associate Professor CSS Graduate Coordinator |
Agent-based modeling, GIscience, Urban Geography, Computational Social Science | acrooks2@gmu.edu |
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Bill | Kennedy | Associate Professor (term teaching) | Individual cognitive modeling, social behavioral modeling | wkennedy@gmu.edu |
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Claudio | Cioffi-Revilla | Professor Director, Center for Social Complexity |
Quantitative, mathematical, and simulation models applied to complex human and social systems | ccioffi@gmu.edu |
|
Eduardo | Lopez | Assistant Professor CSI / Comp Sci Graduate Coordinator |
Network Science, Stochastic Processes, and Big Data | elopez22@gmu.edu |
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Estela | Blaisten-Barojas | Professor Director, Computational Materials Science Center |
Computational Physics, Modeling and Simulation of Soft Materials and Nanostructures | blaisten@gmu.edu |
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James | Glasbrenner | Assistant Professor | Modeling and Simulation of Materials Properties | jglasbr2@gmu.edu |
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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 |
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Joseph | Marr | Associate Professor CDS Undergraduate Coordinator |
Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computational Inference | jmarr2@gmu.edu |
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Michael | Eagle | Assistant Professor | Use Data-Driven Methods to Derive Insight About Human Behavior and Create New and Better Systems, and Complex Interactive Environments. | meagle@gmu.edu |
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Qing | Tian | Assistant Professor | Land use, development, human-environment systems, and complex adaptive systems | qtian2@gmu.edu |
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Robert | Axtell | Professor Co-director, Computational Public Policy Lab |
Computational social science and public policy | rax222@gmu.edu |
Research Faculty, Fellows, Adjuncts and Retired Faculty
| First | Last | Position | Research Interests | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Dmitri | Klimov | Affiliate Associate Professor |
Simulations of protein aggregation and membrane-protein interactions | dklimov@gmu.edu |
|
Dimitrios | Papaconstantopoulos | Retired Professor Emeritus |
Computational Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science | dpapacon@gmu.edu |
|
Edward | Wegman | Retired Bernard J. Dunn Professor, Computational Statistics |
ewegman@gmu.edu | |
|
Howard | Sheng | Affiliate Associate Professor |
Structural ordering and polyamorphism in liquids and glasses | hsheng@gmu.edu |
|
Igor | Griva | Affiliate Associate Professor |
Nonlinear Optimization and Applications | igriva@gmu.edu |
|
James | Gentle | Retired University Professor |
Computational Statistics and Computational Finance | jgentle@gmu.edu |
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Matthias | Renz | Affiliate Faculty | Databases, Search Algorithms, Big Data Management | mrenz@gmu.edu |
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Muffarah | Marr | Adjunct | Modeling and simulation | mmarr@gmu.edu |
|
Murray | Black | Retired Professor Emeritus Founding Dean of the School of Computational Sciences |
mblack@gmu.edu | |
|
Nektaria | Tryfona | Affiliate Director, Educational Initiatives, College of Science |
Databases, STEM Education, Computing Education | ntryfona@gmu.edu |
|
Stephen | Scott | Adjunct | Complex Adaptive Systems Agent-Based modeling and simulation Natural resource economics Game theory |
sscotta@gmu.edu |
|
Feras | Batarseh | Adjunct | Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Software Systems Big Data Analytics (Data Science) Context Aware Software Software Testing (V&V) |
fbatarse@gmu.edu |
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John | Lyver | Adjunt | Teaching computer simulation skills to beginner programmers, Dynamical Simulations | jlyver@gmu.edu |
