Jason Kinser

Associate Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs

Student academic performance, pedagogy, modeling & simulation

I started with George Mason in 1997 as a founding member of the IB3 (Inst. for Biosciences, Bioinformatics, & Biotechnology). That research program generated the first PhD in Bioinformatics, and the department has become the School of Systems Biology. In 2006, I moved to SPACS which later split into the departments of Physics & Astronomy and Computational and Data Sciences which inherited two PhD programs (CSI and CSS). I held dual appointments until becoming the first full-time chair of CDS. Over the next 8 years, the undergraduate program grew from 25 to 375 students, and the program continues to grow in large leaps, becoming one of top three degree producing units in the College of Science. During those years as Chair, the CDS degree also became available at the Mason-Korea campus and as an online degree.

Selected Publications

J. Kinser, Modeling and Simulation in Python, CRC Press 2022, Chinese Edition 2024, Paperback edition 2024.

J. Kinser, Image Operators, CRC Press 2019

J. Kinser, Computational Methods for Bioinformatics, for Python 3.4, ASIN: B01L4BY2U2, 2016. (Chinese edition) 2025.

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.

Courses Taught

I've taught 45 unique course numbers at GMU in CDS (Computational and Data Sciences), CSI (Computational Sciences and Informatics), Physics, Bioinformatics, Forensic Science, Biology, and even Chemistry.

Education

D.Sc. Southeastern Inst. of Technology

M.S. in Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville

B.A. in Physics, William Jewell College