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Biology

Name	Position	Interests
Elliot Albers biohea@langate.gsu.edu	Regents' Professor	Influence of peptides and amines on aggressive behavior and circadian rhythms in hamsters
Deborah Baro dbaro@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Molecular biology of membrane receptors and channels in crustaceans
Timothy Bartness bartness@gsu.edu	Professor	Regulation of metabolism and body fat in hamsters
Michael Black seawater@gsu.edu	Adjunct Faculty Member	Neural mechanisms involved in the establishment of dominant/subordinate relationships in Anolis lizards and fish
Laura Carruth biollc@langate.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Neural and hormonal control of bird song
Andrew Clancy bioanc@langate.gsu.edu	Lecturer	Role of sex steroids in brain function and behavior in hamsters
Charles Derby cderby@gsu.edu	Professor	Chemosensory processes in the periphery and brains of crustacans
Donald Edwards biodhe@langate,gsu.edu	Regents' Professor	Integrative neurobiology and behavior of crayfish
Kyle Frantz biokjf@langate.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Neurobehavioral effects of drugs of abuse in developing rats
Matthew Grober mgrober@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Neural and hormonal mechanisms of sex reversal in fish
Julia Hilliard biojkh@langate.gsu.edu	Professor and Eminent Scholar	Viral pathology and growth in the brain
Chun Jiang biocjj@langate.gsu.edu	Professor	Chemosensory ion channels in the control of breathing
Paul Katz pkatz@gsu.edu	Professor	Neural mechanisms of rhythmic pattern generation in mollusks
Ann Murphy amurphy@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Neural mechanisms of gender differences in pain and analgesia
Sarah Pallas bioslp@langate.gsu.edu	Professor	Developmental plasticity in sensory systems; recovery of function after brain trauma.
Vincent Rehder biovre@langate.gsu.edu	Professor	Mechanisms of cellular and environmental control of neuronal growth cones
Phang C. Tai biopct@langate.gsu.edu	Regents' Professor	Sensory receptors, membrane transport
William Walthall biowww@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Molecular control of neural development in the nematode

Chemistry

Name	Position	Interests
Alphons Baumstark chealb@langate.gsu.edu	Professor and Chair	Organic chemistry
Markus Germann chemwg@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor, Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scientist	Magnetic resonance imaging and NMR studies of nucleic acids and proteins
Kathryn Grant kbgrant@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	The serotonin transporter in antidepressant drug resistance
Lucjan Strekowski chells@langate.gsu.edu	Professor	Organic chemistry
Jenny Yang chejjy@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Mechanisms of calcium-binding affinity
Cynthia Zoski checgz@langate.gsu.edu	Asssociate Professor	Transport processes to microelectrodes

Computer Information System

Name	Position	Interests
Melody Moore melody@gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Brain/computer interfaces
Vijay Vaishnavi cisvkv@langate.gsu.edu	Professor	Data Structures and Algorithms

Computer Science

Name	Position	Interests
Saeid Belkasim sbelkasim@cs.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Digital signal processing
Anu Bourgeois abourgeois@cs.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Parallel processing
Erdogan Dogdu edogdu@cs.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Transaction control and optimization in real-time databases
Marty Fraser mfraser@gsu.edu	Professor	Simulation and artificial neural nets
Robert Harrison rharrison@cs.gsu.edu	Associate Professor, Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scientist	Simulation; randomized and parallel approaches to difficult problems in scientific computing
Scott Owen sowen@cs.gsu.edu	Professor	Computer graphics, visualization, digital libraries
Yi Pan ypan@cs.gsu.edu	Professor	Optical and optoelectronic parallel computers
Sushil Prasad sprasad@cs.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Parallel and distributed algorithms and data structures
Adimathara P. Preethy cscapp@langate.gsu.edu.	Assistant Professor	High-speed computer arithmetic, VLSI design
Raj Sunderraman raj@cs.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Databases
Michael Weeks mweeks@cs.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Digital signal processing
Alex Zelikovsky azelikovsky@cs.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Computational biology, graph theory
Yanqing Zhang yzhang@cs.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Artificial intelligence, computational intelligence
Ying Zhu yzhu@cs.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Computer graphics, biomedical visualization, animats
Xaolin Hu xhu@cs.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor

Educational Psychology and Special Education

Name	Position	Interests
Jacqueline S. Laures-Gore jlaures@gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Adult Neurogenic Communication Disorders, special emphasis on communication disorders after stroke and physiological stress.

Math & Statistics

Name	Position	Interests
Marina Arav matmxa@langate.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Matrix Analysis, Linear Algebra, Numerical Linear Algebra, Bio-Informatics: 3-D Reconstruction of Biological Images, Math Models in Neuroscience.
Guantao Chen gchen@mathstat.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Graph Theory, Probability, Operations Research, Ad Hoc Networks
Robert Clewley rclewley@gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Data-driven dynamical systems modeling and computation
Susmita Datta matsnd@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Inference, Statistical Genetics, Statistical issues in Population Biology, Survival Analysis.
Johannes Hatting jhattingh@mathstat.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Research in Graph Theory with an emphasis on domination in graphs.
YuSheng Hsu yhsu@mathstat.gsu.edu	Professor	Biostatistics
Zhongshan Li zli@mathstat.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Qualitative matrix theory, combinatorial matrix theory, graph theory
Gengsheng (Jeff) Qin matgjq@langate.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Biostatistics
Andrey Shilnikov ashilnikov@mathstat.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Dynamical systems, bifurcations, chaos, neurodynamics
Alexandra Smirnova smim@mathstat.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Theoretical and computational aspects of applied inverse problems; dynamical systems
Yichuan Zhao yzhao@mathstat.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Biostatistics, statistical data analysis, and computational method.

Philosophy

Name	Position	Interests
William Edmundson wedmundson@gsu.edu	Professor	neuroscience and neuroethics
Eddy Nahmias enahmias@gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Philosophy of mind, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Science (esp. psychology, neuroscience, and biology), Neuroeconomics, Neuroethics
George Rainbolt phlgwr@langate.gsu.edu	Professor	Medical Ethics
Andrea Scarantino phlams@langate.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Philosophy of mind (esp. emotion theory) and Philosophy of Science (esp. psychology and neuroscience)

Physics & Astronomy

Name	Position	Interests
Gennady Cymbalyuk gcym@phy-astr.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Computational neuroscience, dynamical systems, animats
Nikolaus Dietz ndietz@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Interactions of radiation with matter,semi-conduction material growth,interfacing solid stat and biological materials
A.Unil G. Perera uperera@gsu.edu	Professor	Artificial neurons/sensors
Mark Stockman mstockman@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Modelling semiconductor-nanostructure based neurons and sensors
Brian Thoms phybdt@panther.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Characterizing semiconductor nanostructure based neurons and systems
Xiaochun He xhe@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Algorithm development for pattern recognition and data analysis

Psychology

Name	Position	Interests
Lauren B. Adamson ladamson@gsu.edu	Professor	Communication development in typically developing toddlers and young children with developmental disorders including autism
Sarah F. Brosnan sbrosnan@gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Economic decision making, cooperation, and social cognition in nonhuman primates
Kim Huhman khuhman@gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Biology of stress
Tricia Z. King psytzk@langate.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Adaptive responses of brain tumor patients
Erin B. McClure emcclure@gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	brain development, social behavior, and anxiety/mood disorders.
Mary Morris psymkm@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Developmental and clinical neuropsychology, developmental learning disabilities, acquired brain injury.
Robin Morris psyrdm@langate.gsu.edu	Regents' Professor	Brain development and cognition
Marise Parent psymbp@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Physiology of memory
Aras Petrulis psyaxp@langate.gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	Neurobiology of social behavior
Diana L. Robins drobins@gsu.edu	Assistant Professor	social deficits in autism; emotion
Rose Sevcik psyras@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Neurodevelopmental disabilities, cognition and language
David Washburn lrcdaw@langate.gsu.edu	Associate Professor	Brain mechanisms of cognition
Walter Wilczynski wwilczynski@gsu.edu	Professor	Neural and hormonal mechanisms of social communication

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