Group Members

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !

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Research Leads

Research Leads are expected to drive their own research. They are our groups equivalent to a post-doc in traditional groups. Almost universally the only people with enough time and drive to serve as a Research Lead are those who expect to pursue a PhD in the near future. They are expect to progress without direct supervision. Its at least an order of magnitude more work then a researcher.

John Santerre

Professor
Scholar, LinkedIn, Insta, Teaching Photos
email: jsanterre@mail.smu.edu

  • Uni. Chicago, Ph.D.
  • CMU, Pre-doc
  • Middlebury, BA
  • NYU, UEA, St. Joes, UNH, UNE

David Stroud

Professor at Troy University
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  • Reinforcement Learning Expert
  • MS Data Science SMU

David Josephs

Predoctoral Researcher at Stanford AIMI
email: djosephs@stanford.edu

  • BS aerospace engineering/BA astronomy, University of Virginia 2018
  • MS data science SMU, Outstanding Graduate Award

John Partee

Full Stack Machine Learning Engineer, Nextech Solutions
email: John@jpartee.com

  • BS Computer Science
  • MS Data Science SMU, Outstanding Graduate Award
  • Georgia Tech MSCS

Noelle Brown

Data Science Instructor
email: noelle.e.br@gmail.com

  • MS Data Science, Southern Methodist University
  • BS Mathematics, Colorado State University

Huy Hoang Nguyen

Mathmatician
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  • MS Data Science, SMU
  • PHD

Researchers

Researchers are typically interested in helping, but don’t have considerable time to devote to our labs tasks. They are expected to collaborate with the Lead researchers to achieve the goals the LR lay out. They are our groups equivalent to a undergrad research assistants. They are expected to progress WITH direct supervision.

Andy Heroy


Healthcare Data Scientist
email: heroywork@gmail.com

  • BA Physics Kenyon
  • MS Data Science SMU

Carson Drake


Signal processing expert,
email: drakec@smu.edu

  • MS Data Science SMU
  • BS Electrical Engineering, University of San Diego

Michael Wolfe


Data & ML Engineer
email: michael.j.wolfe91@gmail.com

  • MS Data Science SMU
  • BS Neuroscience TCU

Solange Garcia de Alford


Advisor - Data Solutions
email: solange.garciadealford@gmail.com

  • Computer Systems ITESO Jesuit University
  • MS Data Science SMU

Stuart Miller


Software Engineer
email: stuart@smu.edu

  • MS Data Science SMU, Outstanding Graduate Award
  • BS Electrical Engineering, LeTourneau University
  • BS Engineering Physics, LeTourneau University

Jonathon Roach


Research Analyst
email: jdroach@smu.edu

  • MS Data Science, Southern Methodist University
  • BS Mathematics, Baylor University

Kay Ayala


Master’s Student at SMU
email: kayala@mail.smu.edu

  • MS Data Science, SMU
  • BS Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

Robert Hazell


Statistics Sensei
email: rhazell@mail.smu.edu

  • MS Data Science, SMU
  • BS Industrial & Management Engineering, RPI

Alumni

Jostein Barry-Straume

In the Wandering Lab 2019
Role:

Mentors and External Collaborators

Mentors

Kevin Thompson

Brandon Croom

Sean Kennedy

Robert Hazell

Extrernal Collaborators

Heber Nielsen, MD, Tufts

Conor Nixon, PhD, NASA Goddard

Xander Thelen, PhD, NASA Goddard

Masters’ Thesis Advisees

JI Lingle 2019

D. Josephs 2020

C. Drake 2020

C. Cobb 2020

A. Heroy 2020

J. Au 2020

J. Saldaña Jr 2020

B. Spanswick2020

J. Partee 2020

R. Hazell 2020

A. Solsi2020

AM. Heroy 2020

Z. Gill 2020

S. Sprague2020

S. Cocke 2019

A. Wilkins 2020

J. McDaniel 2020

N. Wall 2019

M. Palanisamy 2019

J. Lin 2019

J. Marin 2019