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Executive Members<\/h3>\n
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Wenzhan<\/span> Song<\/span><\/div>
Director<\/div>
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Jin<\/span> Ye<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Ping<\/span> Ma<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Tianming<\/span> Liu<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Haijian<\/span> Sun<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Kenan<\/span> Song<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Qin<\/span> Lu<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Zhenlin<\/span> An<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Fei<\/span> Dou<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Guoming<\/span> Li<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Le<\/span> Guan<\/span><\/div>
Executive Member<\/div>
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Members<\/h3>\n
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Tianming<\/span> Liu<\/span><\/div>
Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science<\/div>
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Jonathan<\/span> Murrow<\/span><\/div>
MD \/ AU\/UGA Medical Partnership<\/div>
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Cham<\/span> Dallas<\/span><\/div>
DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTE FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT<\/div>
Disaster medicine, Nuclear war medical response, Emergency management, Disaster resource utilization, Mass casualty distribution prediction<\/div>
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Richard (Rick)<\/span> Watson<\/span><\/div>
Regents Professor; J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy \/ Department of Management Information Systems<\/div>
Energy Informatics<\/div>
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Mable<\/span> Fok<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Lightwave Neuromorphic Signal Processing, Microwave Photonics, Fiber Optics Sensing, Photonic Signal Processing<\/div>
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Lawrence<\/span> Hornak<\/span><\/div>
Professor and Associate Dean for Research \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Photonic devices - photonic crystals, wide band gap optoelectronic devices; Integrated optics - novel inorganic and organic guided wave devices; Sensor systems - biophotonic integrated sensors, multi-spectral and biomolecular biometric identification<\/div>
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Mark<\/span> Haidekker<\/span><\/div>
Professor \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Bio-sensing and bio-imaging; Instrumentation<\/div>
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Fred<\/span> Beyette<\/span><\/div>
Professor and School Chair \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Developing point-of-care devices for medical and health monitoring applications - including devices that guide the diagnosis and treatment of acute neurologic emergencies such and stroke and traumatic brain injury.<\/div>
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Kyle<\/span> Johnsen<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor, Director of Georgia Informatics Institutes \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Simulation-based Training, Natural Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Serious Games, Virtual Humans, Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision<\/div>
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Sung-Hee (Sonny)<\/span> Kim<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Sustainable Infrastructure and Materials, Transportation Geotechnics\/ Geomechanics\/ Geomaterials, Construction Materials, Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design<\/div>
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Thomas<\/span> Lawrence<\/span><\/div>
Senior Public Service Associate \/ College of Engineering <\/div>
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Ke<\/span> Li<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Environmental engineering, Water\/wastewater treatment and sustainability<\/div>
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Leidong<\/span> Mao<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Micro-electro-mechanical systems, Microfluidics, Nanotechnology<\/div>
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Ramana<\/span> Pidaparti<\/span><\/div>
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs \/ College of Engineering<\/div>
Design engineering and innovation; Computational mechanics; Drug delivery devices; STEM education<\/div>
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Marie-Claude (Maric)<\/span> Boudreau<\/span><\/div>
Department Head & Associate Professor \/ Department of Management Information Systems<\/div>
Energy Informatics, Organizational Change, Business Process Management, Data Management<\/div>
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Lakshmish<\/span> Ramaswamy<\/span><\/div>
Professor \/ Department of Computer Science<\/div>
Data intensive computing, Distributed Systems, Trustworthy informatics<\/div>
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Wenxuan<\/span> Zhong<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor \/ Department of Statistics<\/div>
Dimension Reduction, Metagenomics, Brain Imaging Analysis<\/div>
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Rusty<\/span> Brooks<\/span><\/div>
Associate Director, Carl Vinson Institute of Government<\/div>
Government Sustainability\/Emerging Democracies, Government Transparency\/Emerging Democracies<\/div>
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Andrew<\/span> Whitford<\/span><\/div>
Alexander M. Crenshaw Professor of Public Policy \/ School of Public and International Affairs<\/div>
Political Economy and Policy Processes; Organization Theory and Public Management; Data Analytics<\/div>
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Ramviyas<\/span> Nattanmai<\/span><\/div>
Assistant Professor \/ Department of Computer Science,<\/div>
Networked robotics control, communication, and coordination aspects. Machine Learning<\/div>
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Thirimachos<\/span> Bourlai<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor<\/div>
The primary focus of Bourlai\u2019s research is on designing and developing technology for supporting, confirming and determining human identity in challenging conditions using primarily face images.<\/div>
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Hongyue<\/span> Sun<\/span><\/div>
Associate Professor<\/div>
Data science for advanced manufacturing and occupational safety, quality control and improvements<\/div>
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Affiliate faculty<\/h3>\n
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Zion<\/span> Tse<\/span><\/div>
Professor<\/div>

Areas of Expertise: <\/strong>Medical Robotics, Computer-aided Surgery, Medical Devices and Instrumentation<\/p><\/div>

\"Email\"<\/a>\"Homepage\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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