Krzysztof “Krys” Cios, Ph.D., D.Sc., M.B.A.

Professor and Chair · VCU College of Engineering

Research in data mining, machine learning and biomedical informatics.

Data Science Data Mining Machine Learning Computational Neuroscience Biomedical Informatics

Masoud Makrehchi, PhD

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science · University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Leading social media research analytics to predict trends in behaviour for safer communities

Social Computing and Human Computation Big Data Analytics Social Media Analytics Mining and Analysis of Social Networks Text and Data Mining

Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D.

Robert J. Mattauch Endowed Professor and Vice Chair of Computer Science · VCU College of Engineering

Data scientist specializing in high-throughput structural bioinformatics of proteins & small RNAs.

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Structural Genomics Big Data Analysis Computer-aided molecular modeling Protein-ligand(drug) interactions

Jingjing Zhang

Associate Professor · Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

Professor Zhang focuses on personalization and recommender systems, business intelligence, and knowledge discovery and data mining

Human-Computer Interaction Knowledge Discovery Recommender Systems Personalization and Recommender Systems Personalization Systems

Dean Duncan, Ph.D., M.U.A.

Research Professor, UNC School of Social Work · UNC at Chapel Hill

Research Professor in the UNC-CH School of Social Work

Program Evaluation Management of Human Services Agencies Research Methods Community Collaboration The Achievement Gap

Bartosz Krawczyk, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor · VCU College of Engineering

Dr. Krawczyk's areas of research are machine learning, data stream mining, and big data.

Machine learning: ensembles, imbalanced data, one-class classification, kernel methods. Data stream mining: concept drift, active learning, online classification and regression. Big data: mining massive datasets, efficient and scalable learning algorithms

Pang-Ning Tan

Professor · Michigan State University

Pang-Ning Tan is an expert in Knowledge discovery from data

Spatio-temporal Analysis Data Science Data Mining Machine Learning Network Analysis

Kristin Bennett

Professor, Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science & Associate Director, Institute for Data Exploration and Application (IDEA) · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Extracts information from data using novel predictive or descriptive mathematical models

Bioinformatics Data Visualization Machine Learning Data Mining Health Informatics

Vilma Todri

Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management · Emory University, Goizueta Business School

Social Media Online Consumer Behavior Digital Strategy Digital Advertising Economics and Machine Learning

Panagiotis (Panos) Adamopoulos

Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management · Emory University, Goizueta Business School

Social Media Information Systems Recommender Systems Social Commerce Word of Mouth