Data Science Research

Data Science Research at the College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) at Drexel University explores very large data sources including selection of data and evaluation of information quality, and application of techniques related to data mining, visual analytics, social-media trend spotting, human-computer interaction, data analysis, and information policy. Our Data Science faculty regularly publish in the top journals and conferences in the discipline and work closely with students and industry to develop state-of-the-art research in theory and applications.

Associated Faculty

  • Yuan An: Conceptual modeling, schema and ontology mapping, information integration, knowledge representation, requirements engineering, healthcare information systems, semantic web

  • Pragati Awasthi: Machine Learning and applications

  • David E. Breen: Computer-aided design, biomedical image informatics, geometric modeling and self-organization

  • Chaomei Chen: Information visualization, visual analytics, knowledge domain visualization, network analysis and modeling, scientific discovery, science mapping, scientometrics, citation analysis, human-computer interaction

  • Michael Ekstrand: Recommender systems, information retrieval, algorithmic fairness, social impact of technology, AI ethics

  • Jane Greenberg: Metadata, ontological engineering, data science, knowledge organization, information retrieval

  • Xiaohua Tony Hu: Data mining, text mining, Web searching and mining, information retrieval, bioinformatics and healthcare informatics

  • Weimao Ke: Information retrieval (IR), distributed systems, intelligent filtering/recommendation, information visualization, network science, complex systems, machine learning, text/data mining, multi-agent systems

  • Mat Kelly: Web archives, metadata, digital humanities, archival privacy, semantics, information visualization

  • Xia Lin: Digital libraries, information visualization, knowledge mapping, object-oriented programming, information retrieval, information architecture, information-seeking behaviors in digital environments

  • Jung-ran Park: Knowledge organization and representation (cataloging and classification, metadata) computer-mediated communication, cross-cultural communication, multilingual information access, discourse, and pragmatics

  • Alex Poole: Archives and records, digital curation, digital humanities, and diversity, equity, inclusivity (DEI), and social justice.

  • Afsaneh Razi: Human-computer interaction, Social Computing, human-centered AI, Privacy, Ethics, Online Safety, language processing

  • Shadi Rezapour: Computational social science; natural language processing; network analysis; human-centered data science; computational linguistics

  • Michelle L. Rogers: Human-computer interaction, healthcare informatics, human factors engineering, socio-technical systems, health services research, patient safety

  • Bo Song: Data mining, bioinformatics, big data analytics, and knowledge discovery

  • Aleksandra Sarcevic: Computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, healthcare informatics; crisis informatics; social analysis of information & communications technology (ICT)

  • John Seberger: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Computing, Social Informatics, Privacy

  • Bhupesh Shetty: Process pattern mining, data mining, operations management, sports analytics, information systems, machine learning and applications

  • Il-Yeol Song: Conceptual modeling, data warehousing, big data technologies and analytics, object-oriented analysis and design with UML, healthcare informatics, smart health

  • Lei Wang: Biomedical data science, machine learning, deep learning, neuroimaging processing & analytics, natural language processing, simulation modeling

  • Jake Williams: Data science, scientific programming, computational social science, computational linguistics and natural language processing, mathematics, machine learning, algorithms, and scalability.

  • Erjia Yan: Network science, information analysis and retrieval, scholarly communication methods and applications

  • Christopher C. Yang: Healthcare informatics, social media analytics, knowledge discovery, Web search and mining, recommendation systems, pharmacovigilance, drug repositioning, electronic commerce, intelligence and security informatics

Associated PhDs

  • Danielle Boccelli: Computational semantics

  • Niusha Jafari: Healthcare

  • Xiyao Long: Protein Structural Informatics; High Dimensional Data Classification; Learning from a Mixture of Labeled and Unlabeled Data

  • Bobby D. Nguyen: Organizational Knowledge Management/Sociocultural Knowledge-Sharing

  • Sonia Pascua: Information theoretic framework for information representation, knowledge organization and predictive analytics of information retrieval systems

  • Joel Pepper: Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Bio-inspired Computing, Computational Biology

  • Xintong Zhao: Information Extraction‬, Knowledge Discovery‬, Natural Language Processing‬

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