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
Associate Professor
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Machine Learning for Genetics



Sukhwa Hong
Associate Professor
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


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

Chrisy Xiyu Du
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Specialties: Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design

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
Associate 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