Jason M. Kinser
Acting Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Affiliations
- Departments
Dean’s Administration (Administrative Faculty)
Education
- C.Sc. Optics & Electro-Optical Sciences, Southeastern Inst. of Tech, 1993
- M.S., Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1987
- B.A. Physics, William Jewell College, 1985
About
Kinser earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from William Jewell College and University of Alabama, Huntsville respectively and DSc in optics and electro-optical sciences from Southeastern Institute of Technology. He joined George Mason in 1997 as a founding member of The Institute for Biosciences, Bioinformatics, and Biotechnology (IB3). IB3 has since morphed into the college’s School of Systems Biology. In 2010, he joined the School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences which eventually branched into two departments, one being Computational and Data Sciences (CDS). In January of 2017, Kinser became the first full-time chair of CDS which had 25 undergraduate majors and two healthy PhD programs. The program has now grown to over 300 undergraduate majors, over 100 PhD students, and a growing MS program, becoming one of the largest departments in the College of Science by number of majors. Under his guidance, the undergraduate CDS degree is now offered on the Fairfax campus, the Mason Korea campus, and as an online program.
Current Research
Research Interests include analysis of images, fusion of image content and non-image data, and education.
Teaching Focus
Dr. Kinser has taught more than 30 different courses at Mason in several departments including Computational & Data Sciences, Physics, Bioinformatics, Forensics, and even Biology. Recently designed courses include CDS230 (Modeling and Simulation 1), CDS 486 (Image Operators), and CSI 785 Visualization/Modeling/Complex Systems
Selected Publications
- J. Kinser, Image Operators, CRC Press. 2019
- J. Kinser, Mobile Labs for Kinematic Physics, Inst. of Physics, Concise Physics Series, 2015.
- J. Kinser, Python for Bioinformatics, Jones and Bartlett, June 2009.
- T. Lindblad & J. Kinser, Image Processing using Pulsed Coupled Neural Networks, Springer-Verlag, London, (first edition) 1998, (second edition) 2005, (Chinese edition) 2008. (third edition) 2014.
