Computer Science Faculty
George Mohler
Daniel J. Fitzgerald Professor and Chairperson
George Mohler
Ph.D.
Contact
245 Beacon Street 324D
Telephone: 617-552-6905
Email: george.mohler@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., Indiana University - Bloomington
- Ph.D., University of California - Santa Barbara
Research Interests
Statistical and deep learning approaches to solving problems in spatial, urban and network data science.聽 Several current projects include modeling and causal inference for overdose and social harm event data, fairness and interpretability in criminal justice forecasting, and modeling viral processes and link formation on networks using a combination of point processes and neural networks.聽
Department
Selected Publications
Brantingham, P. J., Uchida, C. D., Morstatter, F., and Mohler, G. (2026).聽 Forecasting the impact of the viral 'Kia Boys' social media trend on car thefts to 2050.聽International Journal of Forecasting.
Diouane, Y. and Mohler, G.聽 Mixed integer optimization of Hawkes process networks with applications to reducing police use-of-force.聽 American Control Conference (ACC 2026).
Chiang, W. and Mohler, G.聽 Upper confidence bound multi-armed bandits for partially observed Hawkes processes.聽International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025).
Diouane, Y., Schoenberg, F., and Mohler, G. Accurate estimation of cross-excitation in multivariate Hawkes process models of infectious diseases.聽IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2024).聽Best paper award (research track).
Piza, E. L., Hatten, D. N., Mohler, G., Carter, J. G., and Cho, J. (2024). Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: a microsynthetic control evaluation.聽 Criminology and Public Policy.
R. Pandey, J. Carter, J. Hill and G. Mohler.聽Rewiring police officer training networks to reduce forecasted use of force. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (KDD 2023).
Ray, B., Mohler, G., Korzeniewski, S., Carroll, J., del Pozo, B., Victor, G., Hedden, B., & Hyun, P.聽 (2023).聽 Spatiotemporal analysis exploring the effect of law enforcement drug market disruptions on overdose. American Journal of Public Health.
X. Miscouridou, S. Bhatt, G. Mohler, S. Flaxman, & S. Mishra.聽聽(2023).聽 Cox-Hawkes: doubly stochastic spatiotemporal Poisson processes.聽 Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
Mohler, G., & Mateu, J. (2023). Second order preserving point process permutations.聽Stat.
Short, M. B., & Mohler, G. O. (2022). A fully Bayesian tracking algorithm for mitigating disparate prediction misclassification.聽International Journal of Forecasting.
Badirli, S., Akata, Z., Mohler, G., Picard, C., and Dundar, M. Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Learning with DNA as Side Information.聽 Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).