Layne T. Watson is a professor of computer science, mathematics, and aerospace and ocean engineering at Virginia Tech and core faculty at the Sanghani Center. His research interests include fluid dynamics; solid mechanics; numerical analysis; optimization; parallel computation; mathematical software; image processing; and bioinformatics. He has worked for USNAD Crane, Sandia National Laboratories, and General Motors Research […]

Leanna House is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech and core faculty at the Sanghani Center. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she worked at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and served as a post-doctoral research associate in the […]

Scotland Leman is associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech and core faculty at the Sanghani Center. His main research interests include Bayesian statistics on both a theoretical and inferential level; MCMC mixing theory; data augmentation for efficient simulation; and large-scale stochastic modeling. Additionally, he has a strong interest in visualization techniques, which involve Human-Computer-Interaction. More specifically, given […]

Chang-Tien Lu conducts research in the interdisciplinary field of urban computing that employs techniques from computer science for sustainable development by balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs. He has developed several novel computational and mathematical models for low sample rate water and energy disaggregation to deliver detailed consumption information for water and energy conservation. Lu also […]

Patrick Butler is a senior research associate at the Sanghani Center. The main thrust of his research focuses on the IARPA funded EMBERS project that uses open source indicators such as tweets, news, blog, weather, etc., to forecast population level events such as civil unrest, elections, and epidemics. He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer […]

Chris North is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He is the associate director of the Sanghani Center and leads the Visual Analytics research group. He is the principal architect of the GigaPixel Display Laboratory, one of the most advanced display and interaction facilities in the world. He also works […]