Director
Jason Leigh
Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute Director
Professor of Information and Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Computer Vision for Virtual Reality, Data Visualization
Members
Mahdi Belcaid
Assistant Research Professor
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Machine Learning for Genetics
Sukhwa Hong
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
Specialties: Natural Language Processing and Text Analytics
Alice Koniges
Computational Scientist
University of Hawaiʻi System, Maui High Performance Computing Center
Travis Mandel
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
Specialties: Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence
Peter Sadowski
Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Physics, Astronomy, Weather and Climate
Alexander J. Stokes
Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa
Associate Professor Biology
Chaminade University
Data Scientist
Hawaii Data Science Institute, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: AL/ML Health equity, DS education, DEI
Helen Turner
Professor of Biology
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Research Director
UN CIFAL Honolulu
Affiliates
Kyungim Baek
Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Computer Vision, Machine Learning for Bioinfromatics
Tom Blamey
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
University of Hawaiʻi Maui College
Connor Flynn
Data Analyst
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Specialties: Data Science for Environmental and Social Challenges
Elizabeth Gross
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Pat Perez
Data Scientist
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
Specialties: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Software Engineering
Anders Host-Madsen
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Statistical Learning
Philip Johnson
Professor of Information & Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Climate Change, Food Resiliency, Software Engineering, Educational Technology
Nurit Krishenbaum
Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Data Visualization
Anthony Khu
Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Federated Learning
Igor Molybog
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models for Engineering and Finance
Farzana Nasir
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Anthony Peruma
Assistant Professor of Information & Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Software Engineering; Software Engineering for AI (SE4AI); Software Engineering Education; Cybersecurity
Prasad Santhanam
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Statistical Learning
Nodari Sitchinava
Associate Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: GPU Accelerated Computing
Susanne Still
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Physics for Machine Learning
Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialty: Software Engineering
Peter Washington
Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
Yuanzhang Xiao
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Reinforcement learning, with applications such as wireless communications and smart grids
June Zhang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Knowledge Graphs
Frances Zhu
Assistant Researcher
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Physics informed machine learning, robotics
Alumni
Gwen Jacobs
University of Hawaiʻi System
Laura Tipton
Chaminade University of Honolulu