Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on for at 脡cole Jeannine Manuel, Paris, France, on October 5, 2023.
Deborah Y. Cohn
School of ManagementDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., interim dean and professor of management and marketing studies; Joshua E. Bienstock, L.L.M., J.D., director of the Center for Risk Management and associate professor; Kevin O鈥橲ullivan, director of MS Risk Management and associate professor; and Victoria Neubauer, senior major gift officer, were awarded a 2023 Risk Management and Insurance Course Development Grant on October 2, 2023, for $27,500. The grant will be funded by .
Amin Milani Fard
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesAmin Milani Fard, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, was awarded the Most Influential Paper award at the 23rd on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation in Bogot谩, Colombia, held on October 2 to 3, 2023. This award is for the paper , published 10 years ago at the same venue, for its impact on the research and professional community. The work has been cited over 180 times (33 in top-tier software engineering conferences including ICSE, FSE, ASE, ICSME, ESEM, and journals including TSE, TOSEM, ACM Computing Surveys, Empirical Software Engineering, and JSS, as well as 32 Theses work). JSNose open-source tool has been used by other researchers and developers to enhance the quality and maintenance of web applications.
Askia VanOmmeren
Career Success and Experiential EducationAskia VanOmmeren, assistant director of experiential education, and Denniesia Cameron, associate director of student employment, presented at the Society for Experiential Education's 52nd Annual Conference on September 26, 2023. Their presentation explored how they have widened the lens of 黑料导航's experiential education programming to address increasing diversity of the student population. They presented how the International Student Employment Fund and Consultants for the Public Good have aided international students in finding their niches through project-based volunteering, better access to on-campus employment and continual targeted support in their career development.
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College of Engineering and Computing SciencesJane Polizzi,, assistant dean, administration and operations, College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, will represent 黑料导航 at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). On September 25, 2023, it the 2023颅鈥�2024 cohort of the , a professional development experience for promising mid-level managers in higher education business and finance. Seventy-three business officers at member institutions were selected for the program, which helps participants enhance their leadership skills, expand their cross-campus relationships, and build their professional network. Designed for business officers who want to advance in higher education business and finance, the program focuses on higher education business models and financial communications.
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
SoADPablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, was on September 11, 2023, in relation to his recent book: . He described the danger of AI exponential growth but also the speculation of a digital feudalism in creating advantages for their models to expand; he focused on AI replication of data bias and the effect of human behavior.
Dong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture and DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, will be serving as one of the \nco-chairs of the Korean Studies seminar, one of at Columbia University, beginning on September 21, 2023. The seminar series is an ongoing community of partnerships, each of which is constituted by scholars from multiple academic departments and disciplines, often including experts from outside academia, devoted to the study of an institution, practice, or issue of theoretical and practical importance.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture & DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, and Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, exhibited their collaborative proposal "Productive Han-Ga-Ram: the Han River as an Ecological & Cultural Madang (Frontyard)鈥� at the 2023 Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, on display from September 1 to October 29. The exhibition was created in collaboration with MMK+, Strange Works Studio, and Terrain Work. It aims to transform Seoul's Han River into a new central hub for the city by utilizing a kit-of-parts approach that adapts existing bridges and riverfronts. The result is a performative, productive, and social infrastructure that addresses the hydrological impacts of the climate crisis while sparking sociopolitical changes for the next 100 years in Seoul.
Babak Beheshti
Engineering and Computing SciencesBabak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., dean of the 黑料导航 College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, was interviewed for a September 1, 2023, article on climate change and connectivity and was quoted several times in the article entitled featured on the IEEE Climate Change website.
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School of Architecture & DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, received 黑料导航 2023 Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award for part time faculty at 2023 Convocation on August 31. The award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated a consistent dedication to teaching and to their students judged by quality of teaching and impact on student success and student learning.