Staff & Faculty
ARKANSAS NSF EPSCOR CENTRAL OFFice
DART Leadership & Supporting Faculty
The Arkansas NSF EPSCoR Executive Management Team is headed by Program Director, Dr. Steve Stanley who serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Arkansas RII Track-1 Award. Dr. Stanley is responsible for overall program management and works with Cathy Ma, Program Administrator, and Jennifer Fowler, Director of Education, Outreach & Diversity out of the Central Office at AEDC. Dr. Jack Cothren at UARK serves as the science director of DART and co-PI to Dr. Stanley.
The Central Office team also relies on campus administrators to assist in inter-university collaborations, reporting, and strategic planning related to the project. These representatives work to ensure project implementation and information flow between campuses and the EPSCoR Central Office.
The DART Scientific Steering Committee is made up of co-leads from each of the project’s components. Any questions related to DART research can be directed to the appropriate co-lead below.
Data curation and life cycle analysis
Dr. John Talburt, UALR (email jrtalburt@ualr.edu)
Dr. David Ussery, UAMS (email dwussery@uams.edu)
Social awareness
Dr. Xintao Wu, UARK (email xintaowu@uark.edu)
Dr. Xiuzhen Huang, A-State (email xhuang@astate.edu)
Social media and networks
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, UALR (email nxagarwal@ualr.edu)
Dr. Justin Zhan, UARK (email jzhan@uark.edu)
Learning and prediction
Dr. Heather Nachtmann, UARK (email hln@uark.edu)
Dr. Md Saber Karim, SAU (email mdkarim@saumag.edu)
Dr. M. Emre Celebi, UCA (email ecelebi@uca.edu)
Research and development cyberinfrastructure
Dr. Jack Cothren, UARK (email jcothre@uark.edu)
Dr. Fred Prior, UAMS (email fwprior@uams.edu)
Dr. Jan Springer, UALR (email jpspringer@ualr.edu)
Education
Dr. Karl Schubert, UARK (email schubert@uark.edu)
Dr. Steve Addison, UCA (email saddison@uca.edu)