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.
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OUR RESEARCH
Learn more about the research and projects our members are doing.
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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.
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Ratna Babu Chinnam
Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/thompson.jpg?time=1721988740)
Lyke Thompson
Director, Center for Urban Studies![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/pgossman.jpg?time=1721988740)
Patrick Gossman
Deputy CIO![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/mdong800.jpg?time=1721988740)
Ming Dong
Professor, Computer Science![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sorin-Draghici-500x500.jpg)
Sorin Draghici
Professor, Computer Science![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/tsomers800.jpg?time=1721988740)
Toni Somers
Professor, Management and Information Sciences![david cinabro](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/david_cinabro-500x500.jpg)
David Cinabro
Professor, Physics![phil levy](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/phil-levy-500x500.jpg)
Philip Levy
Professor, School of Medicine![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/whitfield.jpg?time=1721988740)
Keith Whitfield
Provost![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/lanier.jpg?time=1721988740)
Stephen Lanier
VP of Research![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/hubbard.jpg?time=1721988740)
Darren Hubbard
CIO, Associate VP, Computing & Information Technology![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/coates.jpg?time=1721988740)
Heidi Coates
Assistant VP, Corporate & Foundation Relations![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/forsythe.jpg?time=1721988740)
Robert Forsythe
Dean, School of Business![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HARTWELL.jpg?time=1721988740)
Stephanie Hartwell
DEAN, COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/hazlett.jpg?time=1721988740)
Linda Hazlett
Vice Dean of Research, School of Medicine![](https://hkk268.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/fotouhi.jpg?time=1721988740)