Professor Vasileios Maroulas directs the Maroulas Research Group (MRG) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. We develop novel AI methods at the interface of machine learning, computational Bayesian statistics, and topological and geometric data analysis. Our mathematically rigorous and statistically robust algorithms have science, engineering, and national defense applications. In addition, some of these algorithms are ready to be implemented in a quantum computer. MRG has secured funding from several federal agencies, including AFOSR, ARO, DoE, VA and NSF; national labs, such as ARL and ORNL; and foundations and private firms, e.g., Simons Foundation, Leverhulme Foundation, Thor Industries, and Eastman.
MRG is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage applications from students and postdocs who will contribute to furthering these goals.
Group Members
Vasileios Maroulas, PI
Professor of Mathematics
Chair of Science Informed AI Cluster
Chief Editor: Foundations of Data Science
Editor: Statistics and Computing
Senior Advisory Editor: ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning

Wyatt Mackey
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Sandra Nguemto
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Brittany Story
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jeremy Watts
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bernardo Ameneyro
Graduate Research Assistant
Andrew Deas
Graduate Research Assistant
Jared Deighton
Graduate Research Assistant
Hayden Everett
Graduate Research Assistant
Patrick Gillespie
Graduate Research Assistant
Sarah Harkins
Graduate Research Assistant
Robert Smith
Undergraduate Graduate Research Assistant
Former Group Members
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Austin Lawson (2021-22), Data Scientist at Pellissippi College
Farzana Nasrin (2018-20), Assistant Professor at University of Hawaii Manoa
Ioannis Sgouralis (2014-16), Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee Knoxville
Jake Ferguson (2014-15), Assistant Professor at University of Hawaii Manoa
Dwueng-Chwuan (Tony) Jhwueng (2010-12), Associate Professor at Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Graduate Research Associates
Edward Mitchell (PhD 2023), Head Principal Machine Learning Research Scientist at Joe Gibbs Human Performance Institute
Ephy Love (PhD 2021), Head of Data Science at Thalamus
Chris Oballe (PhD 2020), Postdoc at University of Notre Dame
Cassie Micucci (PhD 2020), Machine Learning Engineer at Eastman
Adam Spannaus (PhD 2020), Postdoc at Oak Ridge National Lab
Le Yin (PhD 2020), Senior R&D Scientist at Metis Pharmaceuticals
Xiaoyang Pan (PhD 2018), Quant at BB&T
Josh Mike (PhD 2017), Postdoc at Michigan State University
Andrew Marchese (PhD 2017), Senior Data Scientist at New York Times
Kai Kang (PhD 2016), CSAIL Postdoc at MIT
Toumy Haya (Master's 2015), Principal Data Scientist at Capital One
John Collins (Master's 2013), Data Scientist at Thalamus
Daniel Rose (Master's 2013), TN Department of Transportation
Yang Shen (Master's 2012), Director at Fannie Mae
Undergraduate Research Associates
Owen Queen (BSc in Math and CS 2022), Harvard University
Sai Thatigotla (BSc in Math and CS 2022)
Aaron Stapleton (BSc in Math and Statistics 2020), Cornell University