George Mohler

George Mohler is Daniel J. Fitzgerald Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Boston College, specializing in machine learning applications for spatial, urban and network data science. His research develops statistical methods for crime forecasting, overdose prediction, and analysis of coupled online-offline systems.

Key research directions include:

• Hawkes process models for social harm event prediction
• Fairness and interpretability in criminal justice algorithms
• Deep learning approaches for anomaly detection in mobility data
• Point process methods for epidemic tracking

Professor Mohler has led projects funded by AFOSR, CDC, NIJ and NSF, including a $1.2M MURI grant on 'Learning Dynamics and Detecting Causal Pathways in Coupled Online-Offline Systems'. His team won first place in nine categories of the NIJ Real-time Crime Forecasting Challenge and developed software for spatiotemporal point process analysis used by law enforcement agencies.