Blaine Reeder

Dr. Reeder received his PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2010, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Prior to his academic career, he was a software engineer and technology consulting entrepreneur.

Grant Scott

Grant Scott is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data Science and Informatics at the University of Missouri. He has participated in projects for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), NGA, DIA, Army, Air Force, Army ERDC, NRL, NRO, and DARPA. He is currently mentoring or leading research projects in several areas including data science, machine learning, computer vision, multi-modal analytics, high-performance computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and geospatial analytics. His research interests also include knowledge-driven multidimensional indexing, multimodal analytics, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational intelligence, databases…

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, risk assessment,…

Lori Popejoy

My professional nursing career has spanned about 30 years. In my early practice I worked primarily in intensive care nursing. The majority of that time I was in mid-level management. During my mid-career, I worked primarily in the nursing home setting as a study coordinator for several large nursing home research projects. From there, I reentered the management role as the Director of Nursing for Sinclair Home Care, which was the practice site for a study about aging in place. My work experience, which has included hospitals, nursing homes, and home health, has great depth and has inspired me to…

Timothy Green

Dr. Green is an instructor responsible for the development and teaching of an online health data science and predictive analytics course, covering health ethics and regulations, and basic and advanced statistical methods for health data analysis.at MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics. He is also the Chief Data Scientist at EquipmentShare.com responsible for the development of a data science, predictive analytics, and business intelligence program for the leading heavy equipment industry telematics platform.

Trupti Joshi

Dr. Trupti Joshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME) in the School of Medicine (SOM), with a joint appointment with Department of Plant Sciences and Technology (DPST) at University of Missouri-Columbia (MU). She also has Core Faculty appointments with MU Data Science and Informatics Institute (MUIDSI), Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG), Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center (LSC), and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Dr. Joshi served as Director of Translation Bioinformatics with School of Medicine from 2015-2020 and currently serves as a Faculty Lead for Translational Bioinformatics for…

Timothy Matisziw

Dr. Tim Matisziw is an Associate Professor at University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) with a joint appointment in the Department of Geography, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics. He is also the Director of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) accredited Geospatial Intelligence Certificate program (graduate and undergraduate) at MU. He regularly teaches courses in geographic information systems (GIS), transportation geography, location analysis and site selection, and the geospatial sciences in national security. His primary areas of interest and expertise include transportation systems, spatial optimization, geographic information, and spatial decision support systems. Dr.

Joi Moore

Dr. Moore received her B.S. degree in Computer Science and M.S. degree in Management from North Carolina State University, both focusing on a minor in Management Information Systems. After teaching for two years in the Department of Computer Information Systems at Shaw University, Dr. Moore turned her attention to earning her Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia with a cognate area of Management Information Systems. Her current research agenda is the application of appropriate design principles for computer-based environments that support learning and/or effectively improve a desired performance. She has served as President of the Training and…

Chi-Ren Shyu

Chi-Ren Shyu (he/him/his) is a Paul K. and Dianne Shumaker Professor in electrical engineering and computer science and serves as the director of the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, where 60 interdisciplinary core faculty from 22 departments/schools support more than 160 graduate students in the MS degree program in Data Science & Analytics and PhD degree program in Informatics with emphasis areas in bioinformatics, health informatics and geospatial informatics. Shyu has organized and chaired technical program committees for several IEEE conferences, such as IEEE HealthCom 2011 (Columbia, Missouri), IEEE BigMM 2016 (Taipei, Taiwan), IEEE BIBM 2017 (Kansas City,…