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.
Sophie Christman
College of Arts and SciencesSophie Christman, visiting assistant professor of humanities, was awarded a $1,000 grant from to support a Community Conversation at the New York City campus on "American Healthcare in the Big Apple."
Vidita Gawade
School of Management, Department of Business & Quantitative AnalyticsVidita Gawade, Ph.D.,assistant professor of business and quantitative analytics in the School of Management, presented at the 2023 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Conference as an Invited Talk under the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) track on October 17, 2023. Her work explored Explainable Artificial Intelligence techniques to advance the understanding of convoluted links of process physics, online time series sensing data, and process anomaly of powder bed fusion processes (an additive manufacturing process). This contributes to the smart manufacturing world by providing better interpretation and trust of deep learning in 3D printing.
Dongsei Kim
School of Architecture and DesignDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his research work, “A Construct The Koreas (Never) Made Together: Deconstructing the DMZ For The Imaginary – 2019," invited to the exhibition and displayed at the Korean Cultural Center Canada in Ottawa, Canada, from October 13, 2023, to January 27, 2024.
\nColleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, published a paper titled in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper was accepted for publication on October 9, 2023.
\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on for at École 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’Sullivan, 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 Bogotá, 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 ºÚÁϵ¼º½'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.
\nJane Polizzi
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesJane Polizzi,, assistant dean, administration and operations, College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, will represent ºÚÁϵ¼º½ at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). On September 25, 2023, it the 2023–2024 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.