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Midhat Abdulreada, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
UHealth Diabetes Research Institute
Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences
Head, Data Science and Computational Biology Lab (DSaCB)
Soyeon Ahn, PhD
Professor and Vice Dean
University of Miami
School of Education and Human Development
Esber Andiroglu, PhD
Associate Professor of Practice
Department of Civil + Architectural Engineering
University of Miami College of Engineering
Joseph Avery, JD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Business Law Department
University of Miami Herbert Business School
Affiliated Fellow, Yale Information Society Project
Christopher Lee Bennett, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Music Engineering Technology,
University of Miami Frost School of Music
Francisco J. Beron-Vera
Research Associate Professor
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Eric C. Brown, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Director, Graduate Program in Prevention Science and Community Health
PI, Prevention Education and Research in Latin America (PERLA) group
Sheldon Brown
Founding Director
Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
Co-Founder, Calit2
Alberto Cairo, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director | IDSC Visualization
Associate Professor and Knight Chair in Visual Journalism
University of Miami School of Communication
Ta Chen Peter Chang, PhD
Associate Professor
Clinical Ophthalmology,
Pediatrics, and Human Genetics
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
David Chapman, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC AI + Machine Learning
Knight Foundation Junior Chair of Data Science
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
Mingzhe Chen, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC AI + Machine Learning
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
Ching-Hua Chuan, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Research Associate Professor of Interactive Media
University of Miami School of Communication
Liviu Cojocaru, MD, FACOG
Director of Obstetrical Intensive Care Unit
Director of Advanced Maternal Care Unit
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Adib Cure, MA
Associate Professor in Practice
University of Miami School of Architecture
Partner, Curé and Penabad
Ljubisa Dabic, PMP, LEED AP BD+C
Partner, AMB Architectural Design Studio LLC
Daniel Díaz-Pachón, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Division
Department of Public Health Services
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Andrew R. Dykstra, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
(Neural Engineering Cluster)
University of Miami College of Engineering
Shane Elipot, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Sciences
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Research Associate, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Rodolphe el-Khoury, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Urban Lab and Smart Cities
Dean, University of Miami School of Architecture
Abigail Fleming, JD
Lecturer in Law
Associate Director, Environmental Justice Clinic
University of Miami School of Law
A. Michael Froomkin, JD
Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein
Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
Founder and Editor-in-Chief,
JOTWELL: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
Founder, We Robot Conference
Sam Goldberg, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science
Rosenstiel School of Marine,
Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Ken Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Data Ethics and Society
Founder and Director,
University of Miami Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
Co-Director, UM Ethics Programs
Lindsay Grace
Knight Chair of Interactive Media
Associate Professor
University of Miami School of Communication
Kim Grinfeder
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Creative Technologies
Director, Interactive Media program and the XR Initiative
University of Miami School of Communication
Mohamed Iskandarani, PhD
Professor of Oceanography, Department of Ocean Sciences
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Joseph Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor of Marketing,
University of Miami Herbert Business School
Youngmee Kim, PhD
Professor, Health Division
Department of Psychology
University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Editor, Translational Behavioral Medicine
Benjamin Kirtman, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Deputy Director, UM IDSC
Director, IDSC Earth Systems
and Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Director, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine
and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
Richard McNeer, MD, PhD
Director of Research, JMH Center for Patient Safety
Division of Trauma Anesthesiology, Ryder Trauma Center
Professor of Anesthesiology,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Daniel Messinger, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Social and Behavioral Data Science
Professor of Psychology,
College of Arts and Sciences
Coordinator, Developmental Psychology Program
Associate Director,
Child Division (Developmental Program)
Director, University of Miami Sib Smile
Darlene Miller, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Michael A. Morris, MD, MS
Radiologist, Mercy Medical Center at
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Amanda Myers, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Neuroscience and
Department of Human Genetics and Genomics
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
David Nolan, PhD
Chair and Professor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Phuong Nguyen, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Research Associate Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science
and IDSC AI + Machine Learning
Timothy Norris, PhD
Data Scientist, IDSC Systems and Data Engineering
Research Associate Professor
University of Miami Richter Libraries
Mitsunori Ogihara, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Workforce Development + Education
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences
Site Director, NSF University of Miami CARTA
Carie Penabad, MA
Associate Professor in Practice
Director, Bachelor of Architecture program
University of Miami School of Architecture
Partner, Curé and Penabad
Host, On Cities podcast
Lynn K. Perry, PhD
Associate Professor, Child Division
Department of Psychology
University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences
PI, Object and World Learning (OWL) Lab
Laura Poliseno, PhD
Researcher, Institute of Clinical Physiology-CNR, Pisa, Italy
PI, Oncogenomics unit, ISPRO
Luis Ruiz Pestana, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural,
and Environmental Engineering
University of Miami College of Engineering
Stephan Schürer, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Digital Drug Discovery
Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Director, Schürer Lab
Azizi Seixas, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Population Health Informatics
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Director, The Media and Innovation Lab
Rebecca Shearer, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences
Early Childhood Social Emotional Readiness Lab
Cynthia Silveira, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Silveira Lab
Erotokritos Skordilis, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Business Technology
Miami Herbert Business School
Geoffrey J. Supran
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Prannoy Suraneni, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural,
and Environmental Engineering
University of Miami College of Engineering
Swarup S. Swaminathan, MD
Cataract & Glaucoma Specialist
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology,
University of Miami Health System
Nicholas F. Tsinoremas, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Founding Director, IDSC
Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor, Health Informatics
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences
Ravi Vadapalli, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Director, IDSC Advanced Computing
Research Associate Professor, Department of Electrical + Computer Engineering
University of Miami College of Engineering
Jie Xu, PhD
Professor, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
University of Miami College of Engineering
Yelena Yesha, PhD
Core Faculty, IDSC
Knight Foundation Endowed Chair of Data Science + AI
Director, IDSC AI + Machine Learning IDSC Innovation Officer and Head, International Relations
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences
Professor, Department of Radiology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Founding Director, NSF CARTA
