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NameAcademic RankTitleDepartmentAffiliationEmailNSF Big Ideas Topic Research InterestsNSF EPSCoR State/ JurisdictionResearch Interest (keyword 1)Research Interest (keyword 2)Research Interest (keyword 3)
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Al-Jeddawi, WesamInstructorGraduate Research / Teaching Assistant Food, Nutrition and Packaging Sciences Clemson University EmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaFood Chemistry and Quality Food MicrobiologyFood Preservation
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Albert, JenniferOtherDirectorSTEM Center of ExcellenceThe CitadelEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaComputer science educationSTEM educationSustainability education
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Arroyo, FangjunProfessorMathematicsFrancis Marion UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaMachine LearningImage and Signal ProcessingAlgorithm Design
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Baalousha, MohammedAssistant ProfessorEnvironmental Health Sciences, Arnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaEnvironmentNanoscienceNanomaterials
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Banik, Shankar M.Associate ProfessorMathematics and Computer ScienceThe CitadelEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaNetwork SecurityCybersecurity EducationNetwork Protocol Design
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Besmann, Theodore M.ProfessorSmartState Endowed Chair, Director of the General Atomics Center for Transformational Nuclear TechnologiesNuclear Engineering Program, Mechanical Engineering DepartmentUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinanuclear materialsthermodynamicshigh temperature materials
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Blauch, AndrewProfessorProfessor of EngineeringMathematical SciencesCharleston Southern UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinarobotics
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Bornstein, Daniel B.Assistant ProfessorHealth, Exercise, and Sport ScienceThe CitadelEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaPublic Health PolicyPhysical ActivityNational Security
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Bowring, James F.Associate ProfessorComputer ScienceCollege of CharlestonEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaCyberinfrastructureSustainability Software Ecosystems
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Brittain, Sean D.ProfessorPhysics & AstronomyClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaPlanet FormationExtrasolar planetsAccretion Disks
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Burke, QuinnAssistant ProfessorTeacher EducationCollege of CharlestonEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinacomputer science educationcomputational thinkingcoding
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Calini, AnnalisaProfessorMathematicsCollege of CharlestonEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaNonlinear wavesRogue waves in deep watergeometric evolution equations
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Carbajales-Dale, MichaelAssistant ProfessorEnvironmental Engineering & Earth SciencesClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaEnergy systemsLife cycle assessmentInput-output models
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Chen, QiushiAssistant ProfessorCivil EngineeringClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinacomputational mechanicsgranular porous materialsmaterial modeling
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Comert, GurcanAssociate ProfessorPhysics and EngineeringBenedict CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaIntelligent Transportation SystemsAutonomous and Connected VehiclesStatistical Modeling
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Cutulle, Matthew A.Assistant Professor Plant and Environmental SciencesClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaRobotics in AgriculturePlant BiochemistrySustainable Weed Control in Vegetables
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Darko, Samuel A.Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor of Environmental EngineeringPhysics & EngineeringBenedict CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaMagnetic nanoparticles
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Delach, Diana L.Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor of Environmental ChemistryPhysical SciencesLander UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaEnvironmental ToxicologyChemical fate and transportbiochemical pathways
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Ernest, Holly B.ProfessorProfessor of Wildlife Genomics and Disease EcologyVeterinary SciencesUniversity of WyomingEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringWY Wyomingwildlife/livestock disease interactionshost genomics and population geneticsWildlife Health & Disease Ecology
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Garrett, AaronAssistant ProfessorComputer ScienceWofford CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinaevolutionary computationdata science
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Gong, YuAssistant ProfessorDr. Physics and AstronomyCollege of CharlestonEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaUltrafast ScienceElectron, phonon and spin dynamicsMaterial Science
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Griffin, Robert J.ProfessorRadiation biologistRadiation OncologyUAMSEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringAR Arkansasnanotechnologystem cellsangiogenesis
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Gurka, RoiAssociate professor Coastal and marine systems scienceCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaFluid mechanicsBio-inspired flowsTurbulence
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Hackett, Erin E.Assistant ProfessorCoastal and Marine Systems ScienceCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaFluid MechanicsPhysical OceanographyWaves
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Hailu, GetiAssistant ProfessorMechanical EngineeringUniversity of Alaska AnchorageEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringAK AlaskaPermafrostThermal energy storagesolar energy
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Hannides, AngelosAssistant ProfessorMarine ScienceCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinasand biogeochemistryestuarine and marine chemistrybeach biogeochemistry
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Heyward, AprilOtherProgram ManagerSC EPSCoR/IDeASouth Carolina Research AuthorityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaResearch InfrastructureSTEM Workforce Development
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Hidalgo, Rommel Z.OtherChief Information OfficerOffice of Information TechnologyUniversity of GuamEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringGU GuamGOREX (Guam Open Research & Educ eXch.)Trans-Pacific R&E NetworkingCyberInfrastructure
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Howison, JasonAssistant ProfessorMechanical EngineeringThe CitadelEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)Turbulence modelingAeroelasticity
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Hu, JianjunAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaDeep learningdata miningmaterial informatics
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Iyangar, BalajiAssociate ProfessorMathematics and Computer ScienceBenedict CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaComputational Mathematics
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Jamshidi, PooyanAssistant ProfessorComputer Science and EngineeringUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaMachine LearningDeep LearningArtificial Intelligence
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Ji, YimingProfessorProfessor of Computational ScienceMath and Computational ScienceUniversity of South Carolina BeaufortEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaWireless Computer NetworksSound Processing, Sound detectionImage Processing
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Jin, XiaohuaAssistant ProfessorComputer Science and MathematicsVoorhees CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaCyber SecurityComputerDiscrete Mathematics
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Kaup, John G.OtherCoordinator of Science EducationIntegrative Research in the SciencesFurman UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaScience EducationSTEM OutreachK-12 Engagement
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Kirk, Kendall R.OtherPrecision Agriculture EngineerEdisto Research & Education CenterClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinaprecision agricultureimage analysisremote sensing
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Kumar, Sathish A.P.Assistant ProfessorComputing SciencesCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaBig Data AnalyticsCybersecurityIoT and Edge/Cloud Computing
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Lauterbach, JochenProfessorChemical EngineeringUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaMachine learningCombinatorial catalysisHigh-throughput screening
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LaVoie, Holly A.ProfessorCell Biology and AnatomyUniversity of South Carolina School of MedicineEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaOvaryTranscriptionCholesterol
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Lee, Menia D.OtherDirectorSponsored ResearchVoorhees CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaInfrastructureBiomedicalSTEM
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Lei, WeiAssistant ProfessorPharmaceutical and Administrativies SciencesPresbyterian College EmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaMolecular PharmacologyPainOpioid
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Lewis, Gregory P. ProfessorBiologyFurman UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaBiogeochemistryWatershedsStreams/rivers
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Liang, AiyeAssociate ProfessorChemistryCharleston Southern UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaBiophysical methodsMolecular interactionHydrogel
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Libes, Susan M.ProfessorProfessor of Coastal and Marine Systems ScienceCoastal and Marine Systems ScienceCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaWater QualityHypoxiaEutrophication
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Little, Timothy S.Research ProfessorChemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of South Carolina, Logical Inquiry, LLCEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaOutcomesEvaluationStrategic Planning
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Lupinek, Joshua M.Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor of Business Administration - Director of UAF Virtual Reality LabSchool of ManagementUniversity of Alaska FairbanksEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringAK AlaskaVirtual RealityEye TrackingRural Community Outreach
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Mandal, Krishna C.Associate ProfessorElectrical EngineeringUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaAdv Materials, PV, Nuclear detector, THzMedical Imaging, Bright Scintillators Brain Imaging PET, Bio-crystallography
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Meng, ZhaoxuAssistant ProfessorProf.Mechanical EngineeringClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaMultiscale modelingBioinspired structural materialsMechanics of nanocomposites
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Mishra, Ashok K.Assistant ProfessorCivil EngineeringClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaWater resourcesDroughtClimate change
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Montie. Eric W. Associate ProfessorNatural SciencesUniversity of South Carolina BeaufortEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaClimate ChangeFisheriesEstuarine Ecology
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Mountrouidou, XeniaAssistant ProfessorComputer ScienceCollege of CharlestonEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaCybersecurityComputer NetworksInternet of Things
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Moysey, StephenAssociate ProfessorAssociate Professor, Faculty Director of Clemson Center for Geospatial TechnologiesEnv Eng & Earth Sciences, Eng & Science EducationClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinahydrologyenvironmental sensing, geophysicsvirtual reality
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Mulware, Stephen J.Assistant ProfessorMathematical SciencesCharleston Southern UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaNuclear microscopy-Biological appl.effects of iron on plant growthphytoremediation
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O'Halloran, Thomas L. Assistant ProfessorForestry and Environmental ConservationClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinagreenhouse gasescarbon sequestrationclimate
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Oprisan, AnaAssociate ProfessorPhysics and AstronomyCollege of CharlestonEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinasoft condensed matternanomaterialsimage processing
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Oprisan, Sorinel A.ProfessorDr.Physics and AstronomyCollege of CharlestonEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinacomputational neurosciencebiophysicsnonlinear dynamics
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Panza, Nicole M.Assistant ProfessorMathematicsFrancis Marion UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaBiomathematicsMathematical Modeling
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Paul, Titan C.Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor of EngineeringMathematical SciencesUniversity of South Carolina AikenEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaNanofluids for Heat TransferHeat Transfer in Nanoscale Microchannel heat sink
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Payero, Jose O.OtherResearch/ Extension AssociateEdisto Research and Education CenterClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaAgricultural water managementIrrigation Environmental sensing
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Perry, David K.Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor of BiochemistryChemistryCharleston Southern UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinalipidsapoptosisenzymes
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Pietrafesa, Leonard J.ProfessorBurroughs & Chapin ScholarMarine Sciences/ School of the Coastal EnvironmentCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinapowerboundariesair-sea
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Ravichandran, NadarajahAssociate ProfessorCivil EngineeringClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaFEM and DEM modelingGeotechnical Earthquake EngineeringFoundation Engineering
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Ray, PayalAssistant ProfessorBiologyPresbyterian CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaEpigeneticsDrosophila development
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Renu, Rahul S.Assistant ProfessorIndustrial EngineeringFrancis Marion UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaDigital ManufacturingComputational Pattern RecognitionEngineering Design
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Ritchie, Kim B.Associate ProfessorNatural SciencesUniversity of South Carolina BeaufortEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinacoral ecologymicrobial ecologyhost microbe interactions
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Ryan, Kenneth C.Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor / Senior AdvisorInnovationKRyanCreative, LLCEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaNatural Language ProcessingPediatric CancerCognitive Computing
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Samadi, VidyaAssistant ProfessorAssistant ProfessorAgricultural Sciences Clemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaFlood Modeling Water Resources System and ManagementGeographic Information System
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Sarupria, SapnaAssociate ProfessorChemical and Biomolecular EngineeringClemson UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaMolecular DynamicsProtein EngineeringNucleation/Self-assembly
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Sawyer, Roger H. ProfessorBiological SciencesUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinabiomaterialscomparative genomicsbeta keratins
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Sessions, Valerie K.ProfessorComputer ScienceCharleston Southern UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaData QualityData MiningMachine Learning
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Shazly, Tarek M.Associate ProfessorMechanical EngineeringUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaCardiovascular EngineeringBiomaterialsBiomechanics / Mechanobiology
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Shimizu, Linda S.ProfessorProf. Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaSelf-assembly and crystallizationreactions in nanochannelsphotochemistry
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Stuefer, SvetaAssistant ProfessorCivil & Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks EmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringAK Alaskahydrologywater resourcesarctic
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Turner, Helen C.ProfessorDean of Natural SciencesNatural SciencesChaminade University of HonoluluEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringHI HawaiiData ScienceMinority and Indigenous EducationEnvironmental
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Wanliss, James A.ProfessorPhysicsPresbyterian CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinanonlinear dynamicsplasmaschronobiology
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Wittman, ToddAssistant ProfessorMathematics & Computer ScienceThe CitadelEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaImage ProcessingComputer VisionApplied Mathematics
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Worthy, Fred L.ProfessorDistinguished Professor of Computer ScienceComputer Science and Information SystemsCharleston Southern UniversityEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaWave energyComputer Programminggraphics
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Yuan, LangAssociate ProfessorMechanical EngineeringUniversity of South CarolinaEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South CarolinaAdditive ManufacturingModeling and Simulation ICME
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Zhang, JianyeAssistant ProfessorScience, Technology, Health and Human ServicesVoorhees CollegeEmailHarnessing Data for 21st Century Science and EngineeringSC South Carolinaenvironmental and analytical chemistryenvironmental sustainabilitysolid and hazardous waste
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Aggarwal, SrijanAssociate ProfessorAssociate ProfessorCivil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Alaska FairbanksEmailNavigating the New ArcticAK AlaskaWater qualityBiofilmsAir Quality
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Booth-Bell, DarleneAssistant ProfessorAccountingWall College of BusinessEmailNavigating the New ArcticSC South CarolinaCorporate GovernanceBoard DiversityBoard Governance
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Howell, Britteny M.Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor of Health SciencesDept of Health SciencesUniversity of Alaska AnchorageEmailNavigating the New ArcticAK Alaskahealthy agingqualitative researchparticipatory research
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Schmidt, JenniferAssistant ProfessorNatural Resource Management and PolicyInstitute for Social and Economic ResearchUniversity of Alaska AnchorageEmailNavigating the New ArcticAK AlaskaSocio-ecologyManagementArctic
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Bi, Xiangdong ProfessorChemistryCharleston Southern UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South Carolina hydrogels for biomedical applicationsBioconjugation of PAMAM dendrimersPAMAM dendrimers for drug delivery
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Bozinovski, StevoProfessorMathematics and Computer ScienceSouth Carolina State UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaBrain-Robot InteractionGenetic Systems Software
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Breede, Deborah C.ProfessorProfessor/DRCommunication, Media & CultureCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South Carolinaagingmentoringtourism
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Chakraborty, SubhajitAssistant ProfessorManagement and Decision SciencesCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaHealthcare supply chainLean healthcareService quality/design
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Choi, HongseokAssistant ProfessorMechanical EngineeringClemson UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaManufacturing process monitoringNanocompositesLaser-based additive manufacturing
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Clark, Melissa NAssociate ProfessorMarketingCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South Carolinasustainabilityconscious capitalismrelationship marketing
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Fadel, George M.ProfessorMechanical EngineeringClemson UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaDesignAdditive ManufacturingMetamaterials
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Fondren, Wes E.Associate ProfessorCommunication, Media, & CultureCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South Carolinamediacommunicationtechnology
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Fyn, AmyOtherAssistant Librarian/ Coordinator of Library InstructionInstruction ServicesCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South Carolinasearch string analysis
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Gadsden, Veronical L.InstructorInstructor of Computer Science Cyber SecurityDepartment of Science and Technology Health and Human ServicesFacultyEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South Carolina cyber security and IoT Technology and AutismAugmented Reality and IoT
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Golkar, ZhabizAssistant ProfessorAssistant Professor of Biology/ ChairDepartment of Science, Technology, Health and Human service Voorhees CollegeEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaAntimicrobial Infectious Diseases CRISPR
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Halverson, Jeffry R. Associate ProfessorPhilosophy and Religious StudiesCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaIslamreligionMiddle East and North Africa
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Hanks, Timothy W.ProfessorChemistryFurman UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaSoft materialsCellular adhesionSensing
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Holladay, Barbara F.OtherCSCICharleston Southern UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaITComputing
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Jenkot, Robert B.Associate ProfessorSociologyCoastal Carolina UniversityEmailShaping the New Human - Technology FrontierSC South CarolinaCrimeSex and GenderIllicit Drugs