Computational Methods
Abney, Drew
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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
Barany, Deborah
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | dbarany@uga.edu
Research Interests include motor control, decision-making, neuroimaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation
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
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science
website | mepcott@uga.edu
Research Interests include computing education, active learning, open science, and functional data analysis
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
Gibbs, Jeremy
Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | jeremy.gibbs@uga.edu
Research Interests include sexual minority youth, behavioral health, and technology informed methodology
Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects
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
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
Luther, Lauren
Research Scientist, Psychology
website | lauren.luther@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognitive processes; Emotions
Ma, Ping
Distinguished Research Professor, Statistics
website | pingma@uga.edu
Research Interests include bioinformatics, imaging, dimension reduction, big data analytics, and high performance computing
Outland, Neal
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | neal.outland@uga.edu
Research Interests include teams, artificial intelligence, networks, computational models, and agent-based modeling
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
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
Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sodawn@uga.edu
Research Interests include emotion, culture, group processes, and social networks
Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)
Assistant Professor, Genetics
website | kaixiong@uga.edu
Research Interests include human genetics, direct to consumer genetic testing, and nutrition
Yi, Hui
Assistant Research Scientist, Social Work
website | huiyi@uga.edu
Research Interests include statistics and data analysis
Zhong, Wenxuan
Professor, Statistics
website | wenxuan@uga.edu
Research Interests include bioinformatics, imaging, dimension reduction, big data analytics, and high performance computing