Information science enjoys a lively and challenging research environment at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Our faculty have conducted funded research for the National Science Foundation, the International Social Science Council, Rome Laboratory, the Volkswagen Foundation, as well as for organizations such as Acxiom, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Heifer International, IBM, ALCATEL, Philips Research, Siemens AG, Rockwell International, AT&T, and U-HAUL International. This research has appeared in leading national and international journals. Several faculty members have won recognition and awards for their research and service.
Faculty Research Interests
| Faculty Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Nitin Agarwal [email protected] | Maulden-Entergy Chair Professor | Social computing, knowledge extraction in social media and Web 2.0 websites, behavioral modeling, deviant behaviors, collective action, social cyber security, data mining, semantic web mining, health informatics, and privacy. |
| Daniel Berleant [email protected] | Professor | Bioinformatics (biological text mining and biotech futures), Probability (interval-valued probabilities and applications including financial analysis and decision-making under severe uncertainty), Technology foresight (including but not limited to the information sciences and biotechnology). |
| Serhan Dagtas [email protected] | Professor | Multimedia analysis, databases, image processing, computer graphics, and Internet technologies. |
| Ahmed Abu-Halimeh [email protected]/a> | Associate Professor | Information/Data Quality, Data/Information Data Integration, Data Analytics, Human-Computer Applications/Interaction, Clinical Informatics, and Health Informatics. |
| John Talburt [email protected] | Professor | Entity Resolution, Data Quality Management, Data Governance, Data Integration, and Architectures for Data Sharing. |
| M. Eduard Tudoreanu [email protected] | Professor | Information visualization, human-computer interaction, distributed systems, and virtual reality. |
| Thomas Wallace [email protected] | Senior Instructor and College Webmaster | Standards-based web development, Responsive Web Design, Web Accessibility and Usability. |
| Phil Williams [email protected] | MidSouth Bioinformatics Center Technical Director | Bioinformatics, High performance computing (HPC), HPC in Google Cloud, Linux/bash scripting for Bioinformatics, Biology-interaction between non-coding RNAs, machine learning on biological data sets. |
| Ningning Wu [email protected] | Professor | Data mining, secure data mining, network intrusion detection, and information systems security. |
| Xiaowei Xu [email protected] | Professor | Machine Learning, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data Science, and Deep Learning. |
| Mary Yang [email protected] | Professor | Systems Genomics, Bioinformatics and Experimental Technologies, Multivariate Statistics, Statistical Learning, Visual Programming, Algorithms, Data Mining, Machine Intelligence, and Molecular Biophysics. |