Executive Council

Nicholas Tsinoremas, PhD

Founding Director
Vice Provost for Research Computing & Data
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Professor, Computer Science
Professor, Health Informatics

305.243.4962 | idsc@miami.edu

Ben Kirtman, PhD

Deputy Director
Director, Earth Systems Science
William R Middelthon III Endowed
Chair of Earth Sciences
Co-Chair NOAA Climate Prediction Task Force
Coordinating Lead Author,
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
Director, CIMAS

Professor of Atmospheric Sciences

Alberto Cairo, PhD

Director, Visualization

Evelyn Cruz

Director, Business Operations

Rodolphe el-Khoury, PhD

Director, Smart Cities +Smart Environments

Justin Gammage, PhD, PEng

Director, Data Science Partnerships

Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD

Director, Data Ethics + Society

Kim Grinfeder

Director, Creative Technologies

Daniel Messinger, PhD

Director, Social + Behavioral Data Science

Mitsunori Ogihara, PhD

Director, Workforce Development + Education

Azizi Seixas, PhD

Director, Population Health Informatics

Yelena Yesha, PhD

Innovation Officer
Director, AI + Machine Learning
Knight Foundation Endowed Chair of Data Science + AI