Ross Gore, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University (ODU). He holds a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia (UVA) and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Richmond (UR). His current work focuses on data science and predictive analytics.

Dr. Gore is passionate about extracting useful information from new and diverse data sources to help inform decision making. The domains of the decisions can vary from public health and city planning to risk assessments related to cyber and terrorist attacks. Typical research engagements involve in-person dialogue with stakeholders to understand the problem at hand, followed by an exploration of problem specific data including existing data that has been collected, publicly available data and the design of new data collection methods. Analytical insight is then produced iteratively through a series of rapid prototypes that enable the stakeholders to provide actionable feedback.

Recent research efforts include: (1) leveraging mobile phone data to inform public-health decisions, (2) identifying measures from Twitter content that explain the variance in the obesity rate across the United States, and (3) customizing cyber vulnerability assessments to provide a user-specific prioritized list of remedial action items.