Computational Methods

Abney, Drew
Associate 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
Azevedo, Renato Ferreira Leitao
Assistant Professor, Institute of Gerontology / EPIBIO
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
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
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

Fazlul, Ishtiaque
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics
Forrest, Jon
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | jrforrest@uga.edu
Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Culture, Ethnography, Networks, Work and Occupations

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
Associate Professor, Social Work
website | jeremy.gibbs@uga.edu
Research Interests include sexual minority youth, behavioral health, and technology informed methodology
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
Associate Professor, Advertising
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
Howe, Chad
Professor, Linguistics/Romance Languages/Latin American and Caribbean Studies
website | chowe@uga.edu
Research Interests: Communication, Computational Methods, Diversity, Immigration, Social Psychology
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
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

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
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
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

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
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | neal.outland@uga.edu
Research Interests include teams, artificial intelligence, networks, computational models, and agent-based modeling
Peng, Yilang
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, & Consumer Economics
website | yilang.peng@uga.edu
Research Interests: Social media; media effects; AI; computational social science; computer vision
Porumbescu, Gregory
Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy
website | greg.porumbescu@uga.edu
Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Communication, Computational Methods, Experimental Methods, Geographic Information Systems, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Work and Occupations

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
2021 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | sodawn@uga.edu
Research Interests include emotion, culture, group processes, and social networks
Samples, Tim
Associate Professor, Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate
website | tsamples@uga.edu
Research Interests: Cognition, Computational Methods, International Relations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

Schecter, Aaron
Associate 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
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
Wiegert, Craig
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
website | cwiegert@uga.edu
Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM

Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)
Associate 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