Sep. 25, 2026

Xiaolei Huang

Dr. Xiaolei Huang is an associate professor in the David L. Payne Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. He received his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder. Before joining Mizzou, he was an assistant professor of computer science and co-director of the Center for Emerging Technologies in AI at the University of Memphis. His research develops trustworthy, robust and data-efficient AI and natural language processing (NLP) methods. His work addresses fundamental challenges in data imbalance, temporal shift and causal robustness in large language models and multimodal AI, with applications in healthcare, precision…

Nov. 16, 2023

Nicole Hegstad

Nov. 7, 2023

Ehren Oncken

Oct. 24, 2023

Edward Mirielli

Dr. Edward Mirielli joined our program as Associate Teaching Professor of Data Science and Analytics in June 2021 and brings years of industry and academic experience to the DSA Program. Ed holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology with emphasis in epidemiology/demography and a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology emphasizing applied statistics and the application of computing to the research process; both degrees are from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has engaged in demography & epidemiology of “big-data” during times when the health of the nation was of significant concern – both now, and in the past studying geographic patterns of mortality. …

Sep. 15, 2017

Timothy Haithcoat

Dr. Timothy Haithcoat joined our program as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Data Science and Analytics in August 2022 and brings years of experience in developing and managing geospatial technologies in both research and applied environments to the DSA program. Tim holds a Master’s in Wildlife Biology and a PhD in Geoinformatics, both from the University of Missouri – Columbia. His research interests involve applying geographic information approaches for solving real-world application issues and their subsequent accuracy assessment and validation. This applied research supports interdisciplinary research objectives in a range of diverse areas including wildlife biology, broadband access,…

Dec. 28, 2016

Robert Sanders

Dec. 28, 2016

Chi-Ren Shyu

Chi-Ren Shyu (he/him/his) is Director of MUIDSI, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Strategic Initiatives, and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Mizzou Quantum Innovation Center. Dr. Shyu has organized and chaired technical program committees for several IEEE conferences, including IEEE HealthCom, IEEE BigMM, IEEE BIBM, and IEEE BIBE. He represents MU on the Southeast Conference (SEC) Artificial Intelligence Consortium and the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development’s Advisory Committee for Building Missouri’s AI Talent Pipeline (2026). He is the PI of Mizzou’s NSF CyberCorps SFS project ($3.6M). Since joining MU in 2000, Dr. Shyu has…