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Rochester,
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Co-Directors
 | Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D. More information about Dr. Sugumaran Vijayan Sugumaran is Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems and Chair of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics at Oakland University. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. His research interests are in the areas of Big Data Management and Analytics, Ontologies and Semantic Web, Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in Journals, Conferences, and Books. He has edited twenty books and serves on the Editorial Board of eight journals. He has published in top-tier journals such as Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Education, and IEEE Software. Dr. Sugumaran is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies. He is the Chair of the Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems mini-track for Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 1999–2021). Dr. Sugumaran has served as a Program Chair for the 14th Workshop on E-Business (WeB2015), the International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008, NLDB 2013, NLDB 2016, and NLDB 2019), the 29th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2018), the 14th Annual Conference of Midwest Association for Information Systems (MWAIS 2019), and the 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Service and Applications (BDS 2019). He also regularly serves as a program committee member for numerous national and international conferences. |
 | Ravindra Khattree, Ph.D. More information about Dr. Khattree Dr. Khattree received his Ph.D in statistics from the University of Pittsburg. He is a member of the Center for Biomedical Research at Oakland University. He is winner of the Young Statistician Award in 2002 given by the International Indian Statistical Association. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, inducted in 2003. He is an elected Member of International Statistical Institute (elected in 2004). He is also the recipient of the 2008 Oakland University Research Excellence Award. Dr. Khattree’s areas of interest are Multivariate Analysis, Experimental Designs, Statistical Quality Control, Biostatistics, Classification Problems, and Bioequivalence. Professor Khattree is a theoretical statistician who has developed modelling tools for evaluation and processing of large data and information systems and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles. |
Founding Researchers
 | Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Ph.D. More information about Dr. Battistuzzi Dr. Battistuzzi has 10+ years of experience in large evolutionary analyses. Her research group focuses on the evolution of microbial life with particular interests in early life and the origin of human pathogens. Since joining OU in 2012, she have started a strong research program involving undergraduate and graduate students that has been supported by OU funds, the Center for Biomedical Research, and the Michigan Space Grant Consortium. Additionally, a grant submitted to NASA to perform Big Data analyses has been recently selected. She has also been involved in many outreach activities in local school districts. With her research, teaching, and outreach activities her aim is to promote the importance of strong fundamentals in data analysis to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students with particular attention to women and minorities that are poorly represented groups in STEM. She believes that this center can create the necessary environment to provide faculty and students an opportunity to exchange ideas and learn from each other with practical research problems to solve. It will be an excellent first step to establish OU as one of the major players in data analysis in Michigan and will be a strong recruitment point for future talented faculty and students. |
 | Joseph Callaghan, Ph.D. More information about Dr. Callaghan Dr. Callaghan graduated from the University of Detroit-Mercy with a B.S. in Accounting and special joint J.D.-M.B.A. degrees. His doctorate is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Accountancy. Joe joined the OU faculty in 1989 from Michigan State University. In 1995 he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and in 2002 to Professor of Accounting. Professor Callaghan teaches in the Financial, Managerial and Accounting Information Systems (AIS) areas and integrates model-based application development in support of these disciplines. On behalf of the SBA, he has developed and incorporated advanced information technologies throughout the Accounting curriculum. His teaching interests are in the areas of Financial, Managerial, and Accounting Information Systems,. His research interests are Big Data Management, Medical, Systems, Financial Markets, and Valuation Methods. |
 | Subramaniam Ganesan, Ph.D. More information about Dr. Ganesan Dr. Ganesan has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in Digital Computer systems. He was the chair of the CSE department from1991 to 98. He has published over 100 journal papers, more than 200 papers in conference proceedings, and 3 books. He published a book on Java in 2003. He developed a custom DSP board with software for his DSP book. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visiting Speaker, IEEE Region 4 technical activities member and Fellow of ISPE. He received Lifetime Achievement award from ISAM, Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker award from SAE, Best Teacher award from ASEE, and Oakland University. He has organized many international conferences. He is the editor in chief of an International Journal of Embedded system and Computer Engineering and International journal of Sensors and applications. He is the session organizer on “Systems engineering” at SAE world congress for the past 15 years. His research interests are in Real time system, parallel architectures and computer systems, Automotive embedded systems security and signal processing. |
 | Randal Westrick, Ph.D. More information about Dr. Westrick Dr. Westrick has 20 years of expertise in hemostasis and vascular biology research as a technician, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, and an assistant professor. His research group focuses on using mouse forward genetic screens combined with NextGen sequencing (NGS) to identify genes involved in cardiovascular disease. Thus, he has extensive experience in using Big biological datasets such as whole genome DNA and RNAseq data. He is also incorporating Big Data biomedical imaging into his cardiovascular disease studies. The approaches used in his research program make him uniquely qualified to successfully participate in the building of the OU Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics. The emphasis that his laboratory places on cardiovascular disease based research will also enable development of collaborative research projects with the OUWB School of Medicine. Indeed, two medical students have already worked on research project in his lab. One student received the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Medical Fellows program funding for his summer research experience and the other student will apply to similar programs during her tenure in the lab. In addition, during his 2.5 years at Oakland University he has trained 5 undergraduate, two Masters and one PhD student. All of them have attended short courses on Big Data analysis techniques and are excited about continuing to develop their expertise through the Center activities. His students have presented at national and international genetics and cardiovascular disease conferences and won numerous awards and procured their own independent funding. |