Faculty and Administration
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Administration
Jason Kinser
703-993-3785
jkinser@gmu.edu
CSI Graduate Coordinator
Eduardo Lopez
703-993-5916
elopez22@gmu.edu
CSS Graduate Coordinator
Andrew Crooks
703-993-4640
acrooks2@gmu.edu
CDS Undergraduate Coordinator
Joseph Marr
703-993-5017 jmarr2@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
Instructional Faculty

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

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

Professor
Director, Center for Social Complexity
Quantitative, mathematical, and simulation models applied to complex human and social systems
ccioffi@gmu.edu

Associate Professor
CSS Graduate Coordinator
Agent-based modeling, GIscience, Urban Geography, Computational Social Science
acrooks2@gmu.edu
James Glasbrenner
Assistant Professor
Modeling and Simulation of Materials Properties
jglasbr2@gmu.edu

Computational and Data Sciences Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Image processing, multi-domain data, pulse images
jkinser@gmu.edu
Eduardo Lopez
Assistant Professor
CSI / CDS Graduate Coordinator
Network Science, Stochastic Processes, and Big Data
elopez22@gmu.edu

Term Associate Professor
CDS Undergraduate Coordinator
Data Science
jmarr2@gmu.edu
Advising Hours: F 9-11 am; by appointment

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

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

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

Director, Educational Initiatives
College of Science
Databases, STEM Education, Computing Education
ntryfona@gmu.edu
Research Faculty & Fellows
Adjuncts
Retired Faculty

Professor Emeritus
Founding Dean of the School of Computational Sciences
mblack@gmu.edu
James Gentle
University Professor
Computational Statistics and Computational Finance
jgentle@gmu.edu
Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos
Professor Emeritus
Computational Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
dpapacon@gmu.edu