Mar 07, 2026  
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog

Data Science Faculty


Chair 

Daniel S. Miller Runfola, Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor (Ph.D., Clark University).

Graduate Director

Haipeng Chen, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University).

Professors

Anthony Stefanidis (Ph.D., The Ohio State University).

Associate Professors

Cristiano Fanelli (Ph.D., Sapienza University) (on leave 2025-2026) and Jennifer Jane Swenson (Ph.D., Oregon State University).

Assistant Professors

Trenton W. Ford (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame), Yi He (Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Alexander C. Nwala (Ph.D., Old Dominion University) (on leave 2025-2026), Jindong Wang (Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences), Qingyun Wang (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Yanhai Xiong (Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University).

Associate Teaching Professors

Rohaifa Khaldi (Ph.D., University of Rabat), Ronald D. Smith (Ph.D., William & Mary) and Daniel Vasiliu (Ph.D., Michigan State University).

Assistant Teaching Professors

Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam (Ph.D., George Mason University)