Computational Methods

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Abney, Drew

Associate Professor & Assistant Department Head, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Rising Star Award Recipient
2020-22 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | drew.abney@uga.edu

Research Interests include sensorimotor development, human interaction, emotion regulation, time series analysis, and language development

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Ahn, Daehwan

Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
website | daehwan@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Experimental Methods, Higher Education, Infant and Child Development, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Organizations, STEM, Work and Occupations

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Azevedo, Renato Ferreira Leitao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Gerontology
website | renato.azevedo@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Emotion, Exercise, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Social Psychology, STEM, Survey Methods

Bang-Jensen, Bree

Assistant Professor, International Affairs/Health Policy and Management
website | bree.bangjensen@uga.edu

Research Interests: Computational Methods, Conflict, Emotion, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Infectious Disease, International Relations, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Social Psychology

Barany, Deborah

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | dbarany@uga.edu

Research Interests include motor control, decision-making, neuroimaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation

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Bauer, Brian

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decision

Baum, Derick

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | dd85908@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Computational Methods; Experimental Methods; Networks; Organizations; STEM; Survey Methods; Work and Occupations

Beaudry, Camila Lívio

Research Professional, SPIA
website | camila.livio@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Communication, Computational Methods, Culture, Emotion, International Relations

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Cotterell, Michael

Senior Lecturer, Computer Science
website | mepcott@uga.edu

Research Interests include computing education, active learning, open science, and functional data analysis

Dunnigan, Allison

Associate Professor, Social Work
website | allison.dunnigan@uga.edu

Research Interests include child welfare policy and services, foster care, and system responses to human trafficking

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Fazlul, Ishtiaque

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics

Flannery, Jessica

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | jessica.flannery@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Forrest, Jon

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | jrforrest@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Culture, Ethnography, Networks, Work and Occupations

Yizhu, Gao

Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education
website | yizhu.gao@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, STEM

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Geier, Charles

Associate Dean for Research & William P. Flatt Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | Charles.Geier@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Diversity, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Food & Nutrition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Gibbs, Daniel

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
website | dangibbs@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Child well-being; Professional decision-making; Foster care; Data science; Social work and the law

Gibbs, Jeremy

Associate Professor, Social Work
website | jeremy.gibbs@uga.edu

Research Interests include sexual minority youth, behavioral health, and technology informed methodology

Gorgun, Guher

Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
website | gorgun@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, STEM

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Goulart, Pedro

Data Analyst, School of Social Work – CenHTRO
website | pedro.avila@uga.edu

Research Interests: Computational Methods, Conflict, Experimental Methods, Geographic Information Systems, International Relations, Networks, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

Han, Jeong-Yeob

Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
website | jeonghan@uga.edu

Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects

Himelboim, Itai

Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
Thomas C. Dowden Professor, Media Analytics
website | itai@uga.edu

Research Interests include social networks, social network analysis, political communication, and health communication

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Howe, Chad

Professor, Linguistics/Romance Languages/Latin American and Caribbean Studies
website | chowe@uga.edu

Research Interests: Communication, Computational Methods, Diversity, Immigration, Social Psychology

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Huang, Chao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
website | chaohuang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Computational Methods, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience

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Huang, Peng

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website |peng.huang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Immigration, Infectious Disease, International Relations, Networks, Survey Methods

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Jo, Jeyeon

Assistant Professor, Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors
website | jeyeonjo@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Computational Methods, Exercise, Physical Health and Well-being, Work and Occupations

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Jung, Daniel

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | daniel.jung1@uga.edu

Research Interests include quality of care, long-term care/post-acute care, Medicare/Medicaid policy, unnecessary health care utilization, health disparities, and machine learning methods

Kane, Sharon

Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
website | spkane@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Experimental Methods, Geographic Information Systems, Survey Methods, Work and Occupations

Lai, Ka Yau (Ryan)

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | kayau.lai@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Culture

Lakhiwal, Akshat

Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems
website | akshat.lakhiwal@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Computational Methods; Experimental Methods; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; Social Psychology

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Liu, Liu

Assistant Research Scientist, Social Work
website | liuuil@uga.edu

Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Experimental Methods, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, STEM, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Ma, Ping

Distinguished Research Professor, Statistics
website | pingma@uga.edu

Research Interests include bioinformatics, imaging, dimension reduction, big data analytics, and high performance computing

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Mu, Lan

Professor, Geography
website | mulan@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Environment and Ecosystems, Food & Nutrition, Geographic Information Systems, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, STEM

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Olenick, Jeffrey

Assistant Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2024-2026
website | jo14489@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Diversity, Education and Learning, Organizations, Work and Occupations

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Outland, Neal

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | neal.outland@uga.edu

Research Interests include teams, artificial intelligence, networks, computational models, and agent-based modeling

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Peng, Yilang

Associate Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, & Consumer Economics
website | yilang.peng@uga.edu

Research Interests: Social media; media effects; AI; computational social science; computer vision

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Ravindran, Niyantri

Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Science
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | niyantri.ravindran@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Parent-child interactions; Emotion socialization; Emotion regulation; Physiological responses to stress; Dynamic methods

Robinson, Dawn

Director of Faculty Development, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2021 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | sodawn@uga.edu

Research Interests include emotion, culture, group processes, and social networks

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Samples, Tim

Professor, Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate
website | tsamples@uga.edu

Research Interests: Cognition, Computational Methods, International Relations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

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Schecter, Aaron

Associate Professor, Management Information Systems
website | aschecter@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Computational Methods, Experimental Methods, Networks, Organizations

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Sinha, Gaurav R.

Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | grsinha@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Computational Methods, Higher Education, Mental Health

Song, Inseok

Professor, Physics & Astronomy
website | song@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM

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Tate, Allan

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
website | allan.tate@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Computational Methods, Diversity, Environment and Ecosystems, Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Immigration, Infant and Child Development, Infant and Maternal Health, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, Prevention and Implementation Science, Risk Behaviors, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Tucker, Anne

Professor, School of Law
website | anne.tucker@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Computational Methods; Gender; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

Wang, Qiong

Assistant Professor, College of Environment + Design
website | qiong.wang@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Communication; Computational Methods; Environment and Ecosystems; Geographic Information Systems; Physical Health and Well-being; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; STEM; Survey Methods

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Wiegert, Craig

Associate Professor & Senior Associate Department Head, Physics & Astronomy
website | cwiegert@uga.edu

Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM

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Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)

Associate Professor, Genetics
website | kaixiong@uga.edu

Research Interests include human genetics, direct to consumer genetic testing, and nutrition

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Zhong, Wenxuan

UGA Athletic Association Professor, Statistics
website | wenxuan@uga.edu

Research Interests include bioinformatics, imaging, dimension reduction, big data analytics, and high performance computing