Damon Woodard

Research Interests:

Applied Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Biometrics; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing

Domenic Forte

Research Interests:

Traditional & AI-Enabled CAD/EDA Tools for Hardware Security; Microelectronics Supply Chain Security & Assurance: Semiconductor IP Protection; Counterfeit Electronics Detection & Avoidance; Hardware Trojan Detection & Prevention; Reverse Engineering & Anti-Reverse Engineering; Hardware Security Benchmarking; Countermeasures Against Physical Attacks; Hardware Security Primitives; Biometrics.

Warren Dixon

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence; Sustained Deep Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Concurrent Learning; Assured Autonomy; Nonlinear and Adaptive Control; Robotics.

Sid Dobrin

Research Interests:

Protein security (from a national security perspective); Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities; Relationships between writing and emerging technologies–such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) Applications, and Contemporary Digital & Visual/Screen Culture. 

Named Digital Thought Leader by Adobe.

Bonnie J. Dorr

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing; CyberNLP (at the cross-section of cyber security and natural language processing); Multilingual Processing; Social Computing; Human-Centered Computing.

Natalie Ebner

Research Interests:

Usable Security; Social Engineering; Phishing Attacks; Cuing developers about security blind spots in APIs; Aging and the Human Brain.

James Fairbanks

Research Interests:

Applied Category Theory; Concurrency, Database; Data Science & Informatics; Graph Algorithms & Analytics; Numerical Methods; Parallelism & High-Performance Computing; Programming Languages; Scientific Computing & Data Science;  Mathematical Modeling; and Combinatorial Algorithms.

Jie Fu

Research Interests:

Machine Learning; Intelligent & Semi-intelligent Autonomous Systems; Integration of Control Theory; Cyber-Security, Cyber-physical Systems; Game-theoretic Design of Provably Correct Autonomous Systems.

Daniel A. Hahn

Research Interests:

Ecological and Evolutionary Psychology; Rapid Adaptation; Phenotypic Plasticity; Seasonal Biology of Insects; Pest Control.

Kyle Cameron Hartig

Research Interests:

Remote Sensing; Radiation Hard Electronics; Machine Learning; Nuclear Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation; Nuclear Security; Nuclear Policy.

Amanda Hodges

Research Interests:

Biosecurity; Invasive Species; Integrated Plant Medicine; Entomology; Nematology.

Jim Hoover

Research Interests:

Forecasting; Implementations of AI with Business Applications; Methods for teaching AI and Machine Learning; and Privacy related to AI, Machine Learning and Big Data

William Imboden

Research Interests:

History and processes of the National Security Council system; American presidency; the Cold War; history and statecraft; and religion and international affairs.

Christopher McCarty

Research Interests:

AI and Cognitive Science; Social Network Analysis; Personal Network Analysis; Collaboration Networks; Acculturation; Disasters; Survey Research.

Connie Mulligan

Research Interests:

Human Genetics; Population History; Epigenetics; Microbiome Variation; Complex Phenotypes; Biocultural Investigation & Perspectives; Impact of Psychological Stress; Risk & Resilience; Origin and Spread of Human Disease and Human Pathogens; Human Evolution & Adaptation.

Duncan Purves

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Policing; Ethics of AI; Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems.

Erik Sander

Areas of Expertise:

Aerospace Engineering; Defense; Mechanical Engineering; Nanobiotechnology; Business Development and Entrepreneurship; Technology Development; Engineering Ethics and Communication.

Sonja Schmer-Galunder

Research Interests:

Social Science, Value Alignment, AI Ethics, Responsible AI, Collective Intelligence, ML Bias, NLP and LLMs, Cultural Modeling, Prosocial Discourse and Moderation, Human-AI Teaming and Team Performance in extreme environments 

David S. Siroky

Research Interests:

International Relations; Big Data and Machine Learning;
Separatist and Irredentist Nationalism; Insurgency and Counterinsurgency; Eastern Europe and Eurasia Political Relations

Ben Smith

Research Interests:

Research Methods for Qualitative & Quantitative Causal Inference; Politics of Resource Wealth; Ethnic Politics of Nationalist Mobilization and Ethnic Violence; Regime Change and Regime Transitions

Daisy Zhe Wang

Research Interests:

Machine Learning; Database, Data Science and Informatics; Probabilistic Databases; Probabilistic Knowledge Bases; Large-scale Inference Engines; Query-driven Interactive Machine Learning; Crowd Assisted Machine Learning.

Yu Wang

Research Interests:

Autonomy; Cyber-physical Systems; Security & Privacy; Machine Learning; Formal Methods.

Gregory Webster

Research Interests:

Personality Measurement and Judgment; Multilevel Modelling; Social, Romantic, and Sexual Relationships; Meta-Analysis; Social Network Analysis; Judgments about Rare Events (e.g., Hurricanes).

Joe Wilson

Research Interests:

Information Security; Machine Learning; Programming Languages; Cybersecurity; Design of Malware-ready Programs; Detection and remediation of land mines and other unexploded buried hazards.

Ronald Wilson

Research Interests:

Hardware Assurance on ICs; Stylometry and Psycholinguistics for Identity Sciences; Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing.

Xiang (Jacob) Yan

Research Interests:

Using data science and artificial intelligence (Machine Learning) to make transportation more equitable and sustainable; Bridging transportation engineering; Data Science & Urban Planning; Machine Learning & AI; Spatial Big Data; Public Transport & Shared Mobility; Travel Behavior; Transport Equality; Spatial Accessibility; Transportation & Community Resilience.

Alina Zare

Research Interests:

Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Remote Sensing; Artificial Intelligence; Image Processing.

Didem Pehlivanoglu

Research Interests:

Cognitive Aging; Affective Neuroscience; Judgment and Decision Making; Deception; Misinformation; Neural Network Modeling.

Serves as an investigator on a project focusing on application of a neural network modeling approach on the ability to detect deceptive messages (e.g., fake news).