Faculty & Staff

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Dr. Kristine Nolin
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Data Science and Statistics
Specialties:
  • Organic Chemistry
Contact:
(804) 289-8247
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Dr. Lilla Orr
Assistant Professor of Data Science and Statistics
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Data Science and Statistics
Specialties:
  • Causal Inference
  • Political Methodology
Contact:
(804) 287-6492
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Dr. Taylor Arnold
Professor of Data Science and Statistics
Specialties:
  • Data Science
  • Digital Humanities
  • Linguistics
Contact:
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Amalia Gjerloev
Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science & Statistics
Specialties:
  • Operational research
  • Healthcare simulation and modeling
Contact:
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Dr. Yucong Jiang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Music Informatics
  • Applied AI
  • Data Mining
  • Audio Signal Processing
Contact:
(804) 662-3077
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Dr. Matthew Lowder
He/Him
Associate Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Coordinator
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Lexical, syntactic, and semantic processing
  • Eye movements during reading
  • Individual differences in sentence processing
  • Mechanisms of memory and attention that support language comprehension
Contact:
(804) 662-3078
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Dr. Joonsuk "Jon" Park
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Cognitive Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Data science
  • Natural language processing
  • Argumentation
Contact:
(804) 287-6549
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Dr. Stephanie Spera
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Coupled Natural-Human Environment Systems
  • Terrestrial Remote Sensing
  • Land-Change Science
  • Regional Climate Change Modelling
  • GIS
  • Spatial Statistics
Contact:
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Dr. Lauren Craig Tilton
Professor of Digital Humanities
E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts
Data Science Advisory Board Member
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Computational/Digital Humanities
  • Visual Culture
  • Community Media
  • Politics of Representation
Contact:
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Dr. Melinda Yang
Assistant Professor of Biology
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Population Genetics
  • Human Evolution
  • Computational Genetics/Bioinformatics
  • Ancient DNA-based analyses
Contact:
(804) 662-3126