Current Team Members

• Michael Hahsler (Director)
• Margaret H. Dunham (Founding Director Emeritus)

• Zahra Gharibi
• Adreana Julander
• Ian Johnson
• Farzad Kamalzadeh
• Matt Piekenbrock (CS student, Wright State University)
• Oscar Vallner

• IDA@SMU Linkedin Group

Collaborators (in alphabetical order)

• Vishal Ahuja (ITOM, Cox Business School, SMU)
• Altug Aksoy (Hurricane Research Division, NOAA)
• Mehmet Ayvaci (Information Systems, UTD)
• Michael Bowen (Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center)
• Usama El Shamy (Civil and Environmental Engineering, SMU)
• Thomas Fomby (Economics, SMU)
• Annie Garrison Wilhelm (Teaching and Learning, SMU)
• Kurt Hornik (Computational Statistics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
• Paul Kruger (Mechanical Engineering, SMU)
• Jörg Lässig (CS, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Götlitz, Germany)
• Monnie McGee (Statistical Science, SMU)
• Doug Raiford (CS, University of Montana)
• Myra Spiliopoulou (Business Informatics, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Germany)

Graduates of IDA@SMU

• Tyler Giallanza (MS in CS, 2020) - PhD Student at Princeton University.
• Pimprapai Thainiam (DE Engr. Management, 2017) - Faculty at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand.
• Zizhen Chen (MS CS) - PhD student SMU
• Alexander Saladna (BS CS - Engaged learning project, 2016)
• Will Spurgin (MS with thesis CS, 2016)
• Derek Phanekham (BS CS with dept. distinction, 2016) - PhD student at SMU.
• Ali Almadan (MS CS, 2016)
• Hadil Shaiba (Phd CS, 2016) - Faculty of the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Princess Nora University, Saudi Arabia
• Jake Drew (Phd CS, 2015) - Postdoc at Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security, SMU.
• Ren Peng (MS CS, 2015) - Product Manager at Dayang Technology Development Inc
• Matthew Bolanos (BS CS with dept. distinction, 2014) - Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, Research Now
• Anurag Nagar (Phd CS, 2013) - Lecturer in CS, UT Dallas.
• Xiaodian Xie (MS CS with thesis, 2013) - Dow Jones & Company
• Vladimir Jovanovic (MS CS, 2013) - PhD student, Neuroscience, UC San Diego
• Akshaya Aradhya V (MS CS, 2012) - Intuit
• Maya El Dayeh (PhD CS, 2012) - Credera and lecturer in CS, SMU
• Yu Su (PhD CS, 2011) - Verizon
• John Forrest (BS CS with dept. distinction, 2011) - Microsoft Corporation
• Charlie Isaksson (MS CS, 2010) - Data Scientist, Tektronix
• Rao Mallik Kotamarti (PhD CS, 2010) - Consultant, IBM
• Jeff Allen (MS CS, 2009) - RStudio, Inc., Trestle Technology