NEW TENURED AND TENURE TRACK FACULTY
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Nancy Hanrahan
Dean and professor, School of Nursing; Associate dean, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
PhD: Boston College
Scholarship focus: psychiatric nursing research in health policy; impact of healthcare models and systems on mental health patient care outcomes
Jeanne Madden
Associate Professor
PhD: Harvard University
Scholarship focus: pharmaceutical health policy; impacts of insurance coverage changes; access to and affordability of medications; mental health
Hermine Poghosyan
Assistant clinical professor
PhD: University of Massachusetts Boston
Scholarship focus: cancer health disparities, quality of life and symptoms of patients with cancer; tobacco control and smoking cessation interventions
Christine Rizzo
Associate Professor
PhD: University of Southern California
Scholarship focus: research in adolescent dating violence and associated risk behaviors; mental health disorders in adolescence
Jane Saczynski
Associate Professor
PhD: Pennsylvania State University
Scholarship focus: cognitive function, dementia, and delirium, with a focus in how cognitive status impacts chronic disease management
Carmel Salhi
Assistant Professor
ScD: Harvard School of Public Health
Scholarship focus: neuropsychological research in cultural health disparities; effects of socioeconomic status and childhood trauma on psychological development
Joshua Stefanik
Assistant Professor
PhD: Boston University School of Medicine
Scholarship focus: risk factors, mechanisms, biomechanics, and treatments for knee osteoarthritis and pain with a focus on the patellofemoral joint
Eugene Tunik
Associate Professor
PhD: Rutgers University
Scholarship focus: neuroscience research into motor control/ motor learning in health and in disease (stroke and brain injury); impact on rehabilitation
College of Arts, Media and Design
Meryl Alper
Assistant professor
PhD: University of Southern California
Scholarship focus: the intersection of communication technology and health/disability
Ryan Ellis
Assistant professor
PhD: University of California, San Diego
Scholarship focus: communication infrastructure sustainability and resilience; cybersecurity
Ryan Ellis
Assistant professor
PhD: University of California, San Diego
Scholarship focus: communication infrastructure sustainability and resilience; cybersecurity
Daniel Godfrey
Professor and chair, Department of Music
PhD: University of Iowa
Scholarship focus: new classical music composition
Kian Goh
Assistant professor
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scholarship focus: urban climate change; social justice and urban design
Sarah Kanouse
Associate professor
MFA: University of Illinois
Scholarship focus: art and the environment; art and social justice
Jonathan Kaufman
Professor and director, School of Journalism
MA: Harvard University
Scholarship focus: business journalism
Andrew Mall
Assistant professor
PhD: University of Chicago
Scholarship focus: ethnomusicology; Christian music
John Wihbey
Assistant professor
MS: Columbia University
Scholarship focus: Big Data journalism; future of journalism
College of Computer and Information Science
Michelle Borkin
Assistant professor
PhD: Harvard University
Scholarship focus: developing visualization techniques and tools for multiple scientific and engineering domains as well as investigating fundamental principles of perception and cognition as it relates to data visualization
Ehsan Elhamifar
Assistant professor
PhD: Johns Hopkins University
Scholarship focus: developing provably correct and efficient data analysis algorithms that can address the challenges inherent in complex and large-scale high-dimensional datasets Starts January 2016
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Professor
PhD: Johns Hopkins University
Scholarship focus: practical systems and network protocols that are robust to failures and attacks while coping with the resource constraints existent in computing systems and networks
Jonathan Ullman
Assistant professor
PhD: Harvard University
Scholarship focus: privacy-preserving data analysis and its connections to cryptography, machine learning, mechanism design
Lu Wang
Assistant professor
PhD(candidate): Cornell University
Scholarship focus: developing natural language processing and machine learning techniques to help people understand and learn from large-scale text data with inherent noise
College of Engineering
Muhammad Noor E Alam
Assistant Professor
PhD: University of Alberta (Canada)
Scholarship focus: applied operations research; large-scale optimization; and data analytics
Mahshid Amirabadi
Assistant Professor
PhD: Texas A&M University
design, modeling, and control of power converters; power electronics for renewable energy systems; microgrids; variable speed drives and wireless power transfer
Qianqian Fang
Assistant Professor
PhD: Dartmouth College
Scholarship focus: medical imaging and biomedical optics
Stratis Ioannidis
Assistant Professor
PhD: University of Toronto (Canada)
Scholarship focus: Big Data; machine learning; privacy; distributed systems
Ryan Koppes
Assistant Professor
PhD: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Scholarship focus: neural interface technology; tissue engineering; and musculoskeletal biomechanicsy
Stratis Ioannidis
Assistant Professor
PhD: University of Toronto (Canada)
Scholarship focus: Big Data; machine learning; privacy; distributed systems
Taskin Padir
Assistant Professor
PhD: Purdue University
Scholarship focus: modeling and control of robot systems; human-in-the-loop robot control; and realization of medical cyberphysical systems
Ameet Pinto
Assistant Professor
PhD: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Scholarship focus: microbial ecology and physiology; public health microbiology; biological water and wastewater systems
Starts January 2016
Hanumant Singh
Joint appointment with COS: Professor
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scholarship focus: robotic sensors, systems, platforms, and algorithms including high-resolution optical and acoustic sensing; underwater vehicles
Starts January 2016
Nikolai Slavov
Assistant professor
PhD: Princeton University
Scholarship focus: ribosome-mediated translational regulation, coordination of cell growth, and differentiation; statistical inference, mass-spectrometry; quantitative systems biology; bioinformatics and genomics; metabolism; microfluidics
John Whitney
Assistant professor
PhD: Harvard University
Scholarship focus: advancing robotics, microrobotics, and machine design through fundamental developments in manufacturing, materials, and improving the underlying physical performance of robot hardware
Starts January 2016
Hongli Zhu
Assistant professor
PhD: South China University of Technology (China)
Scholarship focus: advanced manufacturing; multifunctional bio-inspired material from nature; sustainable energy storage; nano/micro fabrication of devices and materials; bendable, implantable, and biocompatible electronics
Starts January 2016
College of Science
Javier Apfeld
Assistant professor
PhD: University of California, San Francisco
Scholarship focus: neuronal redox balance; neurodegenerative disease and aging
James Halverson
Assistant professor
PhD: University of Pennsylvania
Scholarship focus: string theory and phenomenology; mathematical physics
Bryan Spring
Assistant professor
PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Scholarship focus: biomedical physics and cancer biology
Kathleen Lotterhos
Assistant professor
PhD: Florida State University
Scholarship focus: climate change, dispersal, and gene flow; genetic drift and selection
Justin Crane
Assistant professor
PhD: McMaster University (Canada)
Scholarship focus: aging, obesity, and tissue repair; remodeling; cellular senescence and protein quality control
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Daniel Aldrich
Professor
PhD: Harvard University
Scholarship focus: security and resilience studies
Jose Buscaglia
Professor and chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
PhD: University of Buffalo
Scholarship focus: Caribbean, Latin American and Latino studies
Ellen Cushman
Professor
PhD: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Scholarship focus: civic sustainability
Candice Delmas
Assistant professor
PhD: Boston University
Scholarship focus: social and political philosophy
Patrick Legros
Distinguished Professor
PhD: California Institute of Technology
Scholarship focus: industrial organization Starts January 2016
D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Saurabh Ambulkar
Assistant Professor
PhD: Iowa State University
Scholarship focus: recovering from supply chain disruptions, resiliency in supply chains, innovation risks and responding to market uncertainties and business risks
Jianqui Bai
Assistant Professor
Phd: University of Southern California
Scholarship focus: organizational form and firm productivity; financial frictions arising from deregulation and industry productivity; and financial disclosure decisions and corporate policies
Yakov Bart
Assistant Professor
Phd: University of California, Berkeley
Scholarship focus: digital marketing, social media; advertising effectiveness and online trust
Parker Ellen
Assistant Professor
PhD: Florida State University
Scholarship focus: leader political support; political skill and organizational life; and teamwork
Amir Grinstein
Associate professor
PhD: The Hebrew University (Israel)
Scholarship focus: pro-social marketing, sustainability, and healthcare; international marketing; marketing strategy
Patrick Hurley
Assistant Professor
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scholarship focus: auditors’ judgment and decision-making in auditing; experimental economics; and determinants and impacts of risk and trust in economic decisions
Samina Karim
Associate professor
PhD: University of Michigan
Scholarship focus: innovation in multi-business organizations; business reconfiguration; acquisitions and alliances in competitive global markets
Daniele Mathras
Assistant professor
PhD: Arizona State University
Scholarship focus: effects of cultural belief systems on consumer behavior and well-being; transformative service research in the healthcare domain
Jennifer Nichol
Assistant professor
PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Scholarship focus: judgment and decision-making in managerial accounting, incentive contract framing and professional misconduct, and experimental designs
Mary Steffel
Assistant professor
PhD: University of Florida and Princeton University
Scholarship focus: social judgment and decision making; experimental research methods; studies choice delegation, gift giving, and overcoming barriers to gauging others’ preferences
Fernando Suarez
Jean C. Tempel Professor
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scholarship focus: technology strategy, innovation management, first-mover advantages, industry evolution, emergence of technology platforms, strategic decision-making under uncertainty, and the relationship between product and service strategies
Lloyd Tanlu
Assistant professor
DBA: Harvard University
Scholarship focus: corporate governance, performance measurement, and executive compensation
Kuncheng Zheng
Assistant professor
PhD: University of Michigan
Scholarship focus: competition in the banking industry, strategic under-reporting of bank risk, and market-making contracts
School of Law
Andrea Matwyshyn
Professor
PhD and JD: Northwestern University
Scholarship focus: Internet law; cybersecurity and data privacy; consumer protection
Jessica Silbey
Professor
PhD and JD: University of Michigan
Scholarship focus: intellectual property; law, creativity, and innovation; law and film; visual evidence
