ADAM Leadership

Thijs

Thijs Heus, Ph.D.

co-Director of ADAM, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, CSU

Research Interests: Atmospheric Physics, Environmental Science


Shawn

Shawn D. Ryan, Ph.D.

co-Director of ADAM, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSU
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Research Interests: Mathematical Biology, Materials Science, Biomedicine

Center Members

Sunnie

Sunnie Sun Chung, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CSU
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Research Interests: Big Data Processing, Parallel Data Processing Optimization in MPP, Data Analytics, Cyber Security in Database and Cloud, Integration of Big Data Processing Systems


Navid

Navid Goudarzi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CSU

Research Interests: Energy, Distributed Energy Systems, Machine Learning

Alex

Alex Hoover, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSU
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Research Interests: Interplay of fluids, mechanics, and behavior in organism pumping, flying and swimming


Peng

Peng Jiang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, CSU

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Genomics, RNA Biology, Machine Learning, Regenerative Developmental Biology


Satish

Sathish Kumar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of Intelligent Secure Cyber Systems and Applications Research (ISCAR) Lab, CSU

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Research Interests: Data Science, Artifical Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Quantum Computing


Daniel

Daniel Munther, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSU

Research Interests: Mathematical Biology, PDEs, Biomedicine


Mustafa

Mustafa Usta, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CSU

Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Scientific Machine Learning, Heat and Mass Transport

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