Computational Methods

Abney,Drew

Abney, Drew

Assistant Professor, 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

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

Deborah Barany

Barany, Deborah

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | dbarany@uga.edu

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

Bauer,BrianSq2022

Bauer, Brian

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

Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decisions

Cotterell, MIchael

Cotterell, Michael

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

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

Allison Dunnigan

Dunnigan, Allison

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

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

Fazlul, Ishtiaque

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

Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics

Geier, Charles

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

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

Jeremy Gibbs

Gibbs, Jeremy

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

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

Jeong-Yeob Han

Han, Jeong-Yeob

Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu

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

Itai Himelboim

Himelboim, Itai

Associate 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

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

Jung_Daniel_HPAM

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

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

Luther, Lauren

Research Scientist, Psychology
website | lauren.luther@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognitive processes; Emotions

Ma,Ping

Ma, Ping

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

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

Olenick, Jeffrey

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | jo14489@uga.edu

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

Outland,Neal

Outland, Neal

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

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

Shannon Quinn

Quinn, Shannon

Associate Professor, Computer Science
website | spq@uga.edu

Research Interests include developing large-scale algorithms and machine learning toolboxes to improve public health, and research specialization in biomedical imaging and biosurveillance

RavindramSq

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

Dawn Robinson

Robinson, Dawn

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

Schecter, Aaron

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

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

Schlesinger, Ari
Assistant Professor, School of Computing

website | ari.schlesinger@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Communication, Computational Methods, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Ethnography, Gender, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Media, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, STEM, Work and Occupations

Sinha, Gaurav R.
Assistant Professor, Social Work

website | grsinha@uga.edu

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

Ye_Kaixiong

Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)

Assistant Professor, Genetics
website | kaixiong@uga.edu

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

Hui_Yi

Yi, Hui

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

Research Interests include statistics and data analysis

Zhong, Wenxuan

Zhong, Wenxuan

Professor, Statistics
website | wenxuan@uga.edu

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