Our interdisciplinary research groups represent every School and College at Wayne State University. Utilizing various disciplinary backgrounds, our faculty and students come together to work on projects within six focus areas that cover the entire big data and analytics life cycle- from acquiring big data to extracting business value from it.
OUR RESEARCH
Learn more about the research and projects our members are doing.
Our mission is to be a premier center of innovation in big data and business analytics with a strong focus on solving real-life business problems in active collaboration with regional industry, while leveraging core strengths and research interests of our team.
David Cinabro
Professor, Physics
Lyke Thompson
Director, Center for Urban Studies
Ratna Babu Chinnam
Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Toni Somers
Professor, Management and Information Sciences
Sorin Draghici
Professor, Computer Science
Ming Dong
Professor, Computer Science
Philip Levy
Professor, School of Medicine
Patrick Gossman
Deputy CIO
Keith Whitfield
Provost
Stephen Lanier
VP of Research
Darren Hubbard
CIO, Associate VP, Computing & Information Technology
Heidi Coates
Assistant VP, Corporate & Foundation Relations
Robert Forsythe
Dean, School of Business
Stephanie Hartwell
DEAN, COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Linda Hazlett
Vice Dean of Research, School of Medicine