PRE-LAW - Key Persons
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- Associate Dean for Research and Outreach, Professor
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- Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Alan Porter is Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and of Public Policy, at Georgia Tech, where he is Co-director of the Program in Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (STIP). He is also Director of R&D for Search Technology, Inc., Norcross, GA (producers of VantagePoint and Derwent Data Analyzer software). He is author or co-author of some 230 articles and books, including Tech Mining (Wiley, 2005) and Forecasting and Management of Technology (Wiley, 2011). Current research emphasizes "forecasting innovation pathways" for newly emerging technologies. This entails text mining of science, technology & innovation information resources to generate Competitive Technical Intelligence. Publications are available at:
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- Academic Program Manager, Undergraduate Programs
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Assistant Coach and Lecturer, GT Mock Trial
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- Executive Director, Center for Advanced Communications Policy
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- Assistant Professor, Director of MSPP Program
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- Co - Director of Georgia Tech 's Leadership
- Faculty Co - Director, Leadership in Progress and Service Quality Enhancement Plan ( QEP )
Chad F. Slieper currently serves as Faculty Co-Director of Georgia Tech's Leadership in Progress and Service Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) in the Office of Undergraduate Education. He also retains a partial appointment as an Academic Professional in the School of Public Policy where he serves as Director of the Law, Science, and Technology program overseeing recruitment and retention of the program's part-time attorney faculty. Having earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy with highest honor from Georgia Tech and a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law, he has over a decade of experience in higher education having previously held appointments with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center where he was Chief, ad interim, of Clinical Ethics and Emory University School of Law where he directed a program in Global Health Law and Policy. An attorney and ethicist, he has leadership experience with curriculum development, program administration and development, faculty recruitment and retention, service and experiential learning, professional identity development, and student advising. He teaches in the fields of law and medical ethics, and he has won a number of teaching awards at Georgia Tech, including a 2022 CIOS Award, recognizing Georgia Tech's top fifty instructors as measured by the course instructor opinion survey, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. In 2021, he was a Georgia Tech "Faces of Inclusive Excellence" honoree for his work as co-founder of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Diversity Council, and he also serves as a faculty liaison to Georgia Tech's LGBTQIA Resource Center. A member of the State Bar of Georgia and former board member and secretary of the Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia, he also previously worked in the area of professional responsibility for two global law firms, and he was honored by the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy in 2013 with its Outstanding Alumni Award.
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- Academic and Research IT Support Engineer
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- Professor, Director of MSEEM Program
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- Professor of the Practice
Dr. Alan Marco joins the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech as a tenured Associate Professor. He is an economist, who specializes in the following fields: innovation and patent policy; science and technology policy; industrial organization; game theory; law and economics; intellectual property strategy and management; big data analytics; and other areas related to regulation and empirical legal studies. He comes to us from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), where he held the position of Chief Economist. Prior to the USPTO, he held faculty positions as associate professor in the Williams School of Commerce at Washington and Lee University and associate professor of economics at Vassar College.
At the USPTO, Dr. Marco's research focused on policy-relevant topics in intellectual property. He is the co-creator of the USPTO's PatentsView.org, a free and open platform for exploring and accessing high-quality patent data. He also was the co-lead on the Cancer Moonshot Patent Challenge as part of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, and he participated in the G-20 Innovation Task Force. Dr. Marco has published academic articles on the intellectual property marketplace, uncertainty in intellectual property rights, patent valuation, and high-tech mergers.
Dr. Marco earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley and his B.A. in mathematics and economics from Skidmore College.
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- Professor Emeritus
- Professor of Philosophy in the School
Dr. Bryan Norton is a Professor of Philosophy in the School of Public Policy. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1970, specializing in the philosophy of science and conceptual change in, and across, scientific disciplines. He writes on inter-generational equity, sustainability theory, bio-diversity policy and on valuation methods. His specialty is the integration of spatio-temporal scaling considerations into sustainability criteria. He is currently working to develop a flexible notion of sustainability that recognizes the challenges of rapidly changing climate.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Philosophy, 1970
BA, University of Michigan, Political Science, 1966
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- Advisor
- Faculty Advisor
- Professor
- School Chair, Tom and Marie Patton Chair, and Professor
Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto is Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines the formal and informal ways in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, consumed, and supported, with an emphasis on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Sugimoto was a professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington from 2010-2021 and served as the Program Director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program at the National Science Foundation from 2018-2020. She has received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching award (2014), a national service award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (2009), and a Bicentennial Award for service from Indiana University (2020). She holds a bachelor's in Music Performance, a master's in Library Science, and a doctoral degree in Information and Library Science all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Ph.D., Information and Library Science. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.S., Library Science. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.Mus., Music Performance. Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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M.A. in Latin American Studies, University of Texas - Austin
B.A. in Political Science, University of New Mexico
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- Associate Professor, Co - Director of GTDC Program
Dr. Mark Zachary Taylor, formerly a solid-state physicist, now specializes in S&T politics and policy, political economy, the American presidency, and comparative politics. In his research, he tries to understand the sources of national economic competitiveness. In his book, The Politics of Innovation (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016), he seeks to explain why some countries are better than others at science and technology. He currently studies the role of the US presidency in short-run economic performance. Prof. Taylor's research has also been published in the journals Foreign Affairs, International Organization, Security Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Review of Policy Research, Harvard International Review, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Political Science Education. Dr. Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT, an MA in International Relations from Yale University, earned a BA in Physics from UC Berkeley, and has attended university in Japan.
Education:
BA Physics, UC Berkeley
MA International Relations, Yale
PhD Political Science, MIT
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- Associate Professor
- Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy
- Member of the New Voices 2021 - 2023 Cohort of the National Academies of Sciences
Dr. Omar I. Asensio is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of big data and public policy, with applications to energy systems and consumer behavior, smart cities, and machine learning in transportation and electric mobility. He directs the Data Science and Policy Lab at Georgia Tech, where he collaborates with the private sector and city governments on data innovations in policy analysis and research evaluation. He is a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), the Machine Learning Center, and the Strategic Energy Institute. Dr. Asensio's research has been published in leading journals such as Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, and PNAS. His work uses statistical and computational tools to advance our understanding of how large-scale civic data and experiments can be used to increase participation in civic processes, while addressing resource conservation and environmental sustainability. Dr. Asensio's research also has been featured in policy advisory communications by the European Commission, NSF Public Affairs, the World Bank, and national governments - including the U.K., and the IndiaAI initiative.
Dr. Asensio is a member of the New Voices 2021-2023 cohort of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) 40-for-40 fellowship, and the ONE-NBS Research Impact on Practice award by the Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Asensio serves as Associate Editor of Data and Policy journal published by Cambridge University Press. He holds a doctorate in environmental science and engineering from UCLA with field specialties in economics. He is a faculty participant in the Research University Alliance (RUA) Research Exchange and is engaged in multiple activities to increase the representation of women and under-represented students and professionals in STEM fields. For more information, visit https://datasciencepolicy.gatech.edu
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- Advisor
- Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy
- Software Developer for Schlumberger Graphics Corporation
Hans Klein is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on institutions and policy processes around large technical systems (especially the Internet and surface transportation.) Professor Klein's work bridges theory and practice, and he has contributed directly to a variety of policy processes.
Internet Governance and Institutions: Klein's research focuses on globalization, democracy, and Internet governance. He served as the Chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and led their activities on global Internet governance. From 1997 to 2005 Klein participated actively in the institutional design processes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where he partnered with the ACLU. Klein was involved in early-stage policy analysis and the organizing of proponents of democratic accountability mechanisms for ICANN.
Media Institutions and Digital Persuasion: Klein has researched how institutional design conditions the possibility of media independence. His early works focus on public access television, and he served on the board of Cambridge [Massachusetts] Community Television as well as on the Atlanta Telecommunications Policy Advisory Committee. His more recent work focuses on cross-border digital media campaigns. Klein has presented at US Special Operations University at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, and he has elsewhere organized panels and workshops on political warfare and propaganda. He has argued against today's claims about disinformation, and his research has shown that what is called cross-border propaganda can in fact promote democratic discourse.
Intelligent Transportation: Klein has researched how the institutions of the transportation sector shaped the launch and development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the US, Europe, and Japan. He served as a policy analyst for the Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Engineering) as it planned a national program in ITS. He also served on a Federal Advisory Committee to Congress and the Secretary of Transportation on ITS.
Atlanta Beltline and Transit Policy: Since 2022 Klein has been actively involved in debates about the deployment of light rail onto the Atlanta Beltline (a rails-to-trail conversion heavily used as a linear park.) Klein was involved in early-stage policy analysis and the organizing of proponents to preserve the Beltline as a park.
Business Experience: Klein has served as a software developer for Schlumberger Graphics Corporation (formerly Benson) in Paris, France, and was an international marketing executive with Olivetti Corporation in Milan, Italy. He was a system programmer/consultant for Microsoft's subsidiary in Munich, Germany. He has also worked with neighborhood associations for revitalization in Atlanta.
In addition to his current position at Georgia Tech, Klein has held these academic positions:
Princeton University: Microsoft Visiting Professor, School of Public and International Affairs and Center for Information Technology and Policy.
Hertie School of Governance (Berlin): DAAD Visiting Scholar.
Paris School of Mines (École nationale supérieure des mines) (Paris): Chateaubriand Visiting Scholar.
George Mason University (Washington, DC, region): Research Assistant Professor.
Technical University of Munich: DAAD post-graduate scholar.
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- Regents Researcher, Center for Advanced Communications Policy
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- Director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs
Jide Olugbade is a Ph.D. student of Science & Technology Policy passionate about solving complex problems requiring multidisciplinary expertise. He is well known for his resourcefulness; excellent research and analytical skills; and rigorous dedication to high quality. He possesses a strong work ethic and a constant drive toward excellence and continuous learning and development.
Jide's varied background and experiences have contributed to his multidimensional capabilities. He holds degrees from the Federal University of Technology Akure in Nigeria (B. Tech. in Project Management Technology -First Class Honours); from the Netherlands' most international university, Maastricht University (MA in Science, Technology, and Society - Distinction, Cum Laude); and a specialization in Governance, Innovation, and Sustainability from Alpen-Adria University (AAU) in Klagenfurt, Austria. He also holds an ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business. He won the UM Holland High-Potential Scholarship in 2021 and was an Erasmus+ scholar. He is also an Adam Smith Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University where he explores the political economy of Artificial Intelligence.
Jide previously worked as a Governance, Risk, and Compliance consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria where he led projects on corporate governance, enterprise risk management, compliance management, Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) for public and private-sector clients across multiple industries.
Jide's research interests include the global dynamics of AI policymaking, ethics and governance of emerging technologies, politics of innovation, and innovation ecosystems. As a Graduate Research Assistant and member of the Georgia Tech Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center (ETHICx) research team, he currently researches the potential ethical and societal consequences of AI-enabled manufacturing systems in the Georgia AI Manufacturing (GA-AIM) Project funded by a $65 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA).
Education:
MA, Science, Technology, and Society (2021) - Maastricht University
B.Tech., Project Management Technology (2016) - Federal University of Technology Akure
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- Advisor
- Consultant
- Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy
Juan D. Rogers is a Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Current research focuses on innovation policy, modeling and evaluation of R&D process, impact evaluation of R&D, knowledge management and organizational change in the private and public sectors, technology transfer and diffusion policies and creativity in science and engineering. He publishes regularly on these topics in academic journals such as Research Policy and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Dr. Rogers has served as consultant both in the private and public sectors on science, technology and innovation policy in several countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, China, South Korea and United States). He has written reports and policy briefs on technology extension, R&D and Innovation, and management of research for national and regional governments in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay. He has authored case studies and policy articles for the World Bank - OECD Innovation Policy Platform and for the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a member of the Committee on Opportunities in Science (COOS) for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of the Fulbright specialist roster on public policy and public administration and also an evaluator of candidates to the roster.
Professor Rogers received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and is an electrical engineer from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy
- Associate Professor, Director of Philosophy Minor
Justin B. Biddle is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on fields such as philosophy of science, technology, and medicine; ethics of emerging technologies, and science and technology policy. Conceptually, his research explores the relationships between three sets of issues: (1) the role of values in science, technology, and medicine; (2) the epistemic implications of the social organization of research, and (3) ethics and policy. He is currently exploring these relationships in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. He has also worked in the areas of biomedical research and agricultural biotechnology. He received a MA and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame and was later a Distinguished Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to arriving at Georgia Tech, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University in Germany.
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M.A. and Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, History and Philosophy of Science
B.A., University of Dayton, Philosophy
B.S., University of Dayton, Physics
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- Member of the American Academy of Arts
- Professor & Dean of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Kaye Husbands Fealing is Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, formerly the Chair of the School of Public Policy Georgia Tech. She specializes in science of science and innovation policy, the public value of research expenditures, and the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM fields and workforce. Prior to her position at Georgia Tech, Husbands Fealing taught at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, and she was a study director at the National Academy of Sciences. Prior to the Humphrey School, she was the William Brough professor of economics at Williams College, where she began her teaching career in 1989. She developed and was the inaugural program director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science of Science and Innovation Policy program and co-chaired the Science of Science Policy Interagency Task Group, chartered by the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Policy Council. At NSF, she also served as an Economics Program director. Husbands Fealing was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development, where she conducted research on NAFTA's impact on the Mexican and Canadian automotive industries, and research on strategic alliances between aircraft contractors and their subcontractors.
Husbands Fealing is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was awarded the 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and the 2017 Trailblazer Award from the National Medical Association Council on Concerns of Women Physicians. She is a member of the International Women's Forum, Georgia Chapter. She also serves as chair of NSF's Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering, a member of NSF's Directorate of STEM Education Directorate Advisory Committee, a member on AAAS' Executive Board, and a board member for the Society for Economic Measurement. She has served on several committees and panels, including: several AAAS committees; three National Academies' panels; two Council of Canadian Academies panels; two American Academy of Arts and Sciences working groups; NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee; NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences Council; General Accountability Office's Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics Polaris Council; and American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession. At Georgia Tech, she co-chaired the Arts@Tech Institute Strategic Planning committee, and she has served on the Institute for Data Engineering and Science Council, the Intellectual Property Advisory Board, and the Ivan Allen College Diversity Council.
Husbands Fealing holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Education:
Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University
B.A. in mathematics and economics, University of Pennsylvania
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- Lecturer
- Associate in the Atlanta Office of King & Spalding
Laura Huffman is an associate in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Counseling practice. Her practice includes all aspects of intellectual property litigation and counseling with a primary emphasis on patent litigation. She represents Fortune 100 clients in patent infringement lawsuits in federal district courts across the United States and the International Trade Commission, including cases involving optical devices and fabrication, optical systems, telecommunications equipment, and information systems.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy
Lindsey Rose Bullinger, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy. She is a faculty affiliate with the Children's Pediatric Research Alliance at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Tech's Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at the University of Notre Dame. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Policy Analysis & Management. Her research examines how public policies affect child and family health and well-being, especially among low-income families. Her work has been published in American Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Contemporary Economic Policy, Review of Economics of the Household, Economics & Human Biology, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Housing Policy Debate, Child Abuse & Neglect, Children and Youth Services Review, Health Affairs, BMC Pediatrics, Health Services Research, American Journal of Public Health, JAMA Pediatrics, and Maternal and Child Health Journal. Dr. Bullinger's research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, Spencer Foundation, Cash Transfer Lab at NYU, and Pew Charitable Trusts. She earned a Ph.D. from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. She holds an MPA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and a bachelor's degree from Miami University in Ohio.
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- Advisor
- Faculty Advisor
- Regents' Professor
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MS Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
BA History, University of Kent (United Kingdom)
Meenu Mukherji has more than 12 years of consistently growing leadership, managerial and operational experience in hospitality, banking, and academia and has been working as a Program Manager at Georgia State University since 2015. She has been managing an interdisciplinary PhD fellowship program along with an Undergrad Summer Research program and conceptualized a high school immersion program for hands on research in different science laboratories. This program which was started as a community outreach effort was approved as a dual enrollment program because of the tremendous success and growth it has achieved. Meenu was also responsible for financial and budgetary oversight, external and internal stakeholder engagement and event management in her role as a Program Manager. Additionally, she served on the staff executive committee and helped support initiatives for staff growth and development.
Her areas of expertise include project management, relationship management, event management and financial analysis. She is passionate about effectively running current programs, conceptualizing new programs, streamlining systems and procedures, and bringing in efficiencies. Meenu enjoys working in academia as it provides intellectual freedom and an opportunity to work with exceptional students, mentoring them and making a long-term impact in their lives.
She strongly believes in the quote, "Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility and around me is boundless opportunity".
She feels learning is a continuous and ongoing process and holds a MS degree in Global Hospitality Management from Robinson College of Business and is currently pursuing an MBA degree from Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University.
In her spare time, she likes traveling, reading, and meditating.
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Professor and Program Director, Masters of Science in Cybersecurity Policy
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- Associate Dean of Research
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- Regents' Professor Emerita
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
- Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Nathan W. Moon, PhD, is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and he serves as Director of Research of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on increasing access to education and employment for people with disabilities, with specializations in the accessibility of information and communications technologies (ICTs), workplace accommodations and employment policy, broadening participation in STEM education, and program evaluation.
To date, he has been the PI or co-PI of 13 projects totaling $5.12 million in external funding. Additionally, he has been project director or task leader on nine other projects and been a co-investigator for three additional projects. In addition to the projects he has led, he has contributed significantly to a total of $16.1 million in sponsored research funding at Georgia, for a total of over $20 million in funding at Georgia Tech.
Notable projects have included the nine-year, NSF-funded Georgia STEM Accessibility Alliance (GSAA) to broaden the participation of secondary and postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM education through the provision of electronic mentoring via virtual worlds. He also has led research and evaluation projects in support of the University System of Georgia (USG) STEM Initiative to improve postsecondary attainment within the State of Georgia.
Dr. Moon also is the Principal Investigator for a Field Initiated Project on the Contingent Employment of People with Disabilities (FIP-CE). This three-year research project is funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). FIP-CE investigates the participation of individuals with disabilities in contingent employment arrangements, including jobs obtained through web-based or app-based platforms associated with the nascent "gig economy" associated with services such as Uber, Lyft, and Handy. Moon also serves as Project Director for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Wireless Inclusive Technologies (Wireless RERC), where he leads the RERC's Survey of User Needs and research on the sociocultural design factors for next generation wireless technologies.
Dr. Moon as a strong record of scholarly research during his 12 years as a faculty member at Georgia Tech, with a particular emphasis on applied and empirical research to inform both practice and policymaking. He has authored or co-authored 30 peer-reviewed publications, including two books, with over 780 citations in the scholarly literature. Additionally, Moon has delivered over 30 refereed conference presentations on the subject of accessibility and disability, and he has given nearly 20 invited talks to diverse audiences.
Dr. Moon truly measures his success by how he has made the world a better place. He strives to use research to influence practice and service delivery. In this vein, he led a team that produced Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), an NSF-funded handbook on accessibility research to inform classroom and laboratory practice. Over 2,000 copies of this publication have been distributed free to the public, and it has been cited nearly 130 times in the literature. The impact of the publication resulted in national recognition for Dr. Moon, culminating in an invitation from the National Academies' Board on Science Education and Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) to present on best practices to broaden participation of people with disabilities within STEM education and the STEM workforce.
Dr. Moon received his PhD in the history and sociology of science and technology from Georgia Tech in 2009. In addition to his research on disability and technology policy, he undertook a historical study of psychostimulant drugs, namely amphetamines and Ritalin, to understand their medical applications and extramedical consumption in postwar America.
Education:
Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Technology and Science (Georgia Tech, 2009)
M.S. in History and Sociology of Technology and Science (Georgia Tech, 2006)
M.A. in History (Georgia College & State University, 2002)
B.A. in History (Georgia College & State University, 2002)
Olga Churkina is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy jointly at Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include experimental and quasi-experimental methods for education and labor market policies, microeconomics models of human behavior, and applications of big data. Her background is in Mathematical Economics, and she is currently involved in the Smart Cities project as a member of the Data Science and Policy Lab at Georgia Tech. Her job market paper studies the relationship between worker performance and pro-social behavior in a lab setting (GSU ExCEN).
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- Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Principal Research Engineer
- Senior Research Engineer
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- Associate Professor
- Co - Founder
- Editor - in - Chief
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- Associate Professor & Director - GT Honors Program
- Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech
Roberta M. Berry is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and is jointly appointed as Professor of Science and Technology Law, Policy, and Ethics at Georgia State University College of Law (currently on leave). Her research focuses on bioethics, health law and policy, and the legal, ethical, and policy implications of bioscience and biotechnology research and innovation. A secondary research focus is pedagogical approaches to cultivating complex problem solving skills. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses that span these research areas, including graduate courses that enroll Georgia Tech graduate students and Georgia State law students. Dr. Berry is currently serving as the Director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program.
Dr. Berry's publications include two books, The Ethics of Genetic Engineering and A Health Law Reader: An Interdisciplinary Approach. She has authored a number of articles and book chapters, including the award-winning, co-authored article "The Absent Professor: Why We Don't Teach Research Ethics and What to Do about It" (Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership) and "The Human Genome Project and the End of Insurance" (reprinted in National Insurance Law Review, A Compilation of Significant Articles on Insurance).
Dr. Berry was principal investigator for a National Science Foundation grant focusing on ethically contentious issues in bioscience and biotechnology and multidisciplinary, active-learning pedagogy to cultivate the capacity of future professionals to address these issues. She is a member of the editorial board of HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum and has served on National Science Foundation Advisory Panels and Site Visit Teams. She has also served as an external reviewer for Cambridge University Press, Aspen Publishers (legal), the National Science Foundation, the Wellcome Trust (U.K.), and several journals.
Her recognitions include: Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award (Georgia Tech 2005); Ivan Allen Jr. Faculty Legacy Award (Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts 2004); and Outstanding Faculty Member (Student Government Association 2001).
Education:
M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, History and Philosophy of Science
J.D., University of Wisconsin
B.A., Swarthmore College, History
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- Academic Program Manager, Graduate & Certificate Programs
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- Consultant
- Professor Emerita
Susan E. Cozzens is Professor Emerita in the School of Public Policy. Dr. Cozzens's research interest is innovation and inequality, with a focus on how science, technology, and innovation policies affect the intersections between them. Her current projects are on the potential for artificial intelligence to increase or decrease inequalities and on women in leadership in science-intensive U.S. federal agencies. Dr. Cozzens is on the Scientific Board of GLOBELICS, the global network on the economics of learning, innovation, and competence building systems, as well as its AfricaLICS regional chapter, and Chair of the Advisory Committee of CESTII, the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators of the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa.
From 2012 to 2017, Dr. Cozzens served as Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development for Georgia Tech. Earlier she was Associate Dean for Research in the Ivan Allen College and Chair of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy. From 1995 through 1997, Dr. Cozzens was Director of the Office of Policy Support at the National Science Foundation. The Office coordinated policy and management initiatives for the NSF Director, primarily in peer review, strategic planning, and assessment. Before joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Cozzens spent eleven years on the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Cozzens has served as a consultant to the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Research Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Science Foundation, Institute of Medicine, Office of Technology Assessment, General Accounting Office, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health. She has served on advisory committees for the Institute of Medicine (Committee to Evaluate Centers of Excellence at the National Institutes of Health, Framework Committee on NIOSH Evaluation), National Academy of Sciences (Committee to Prevent Destructive Uses of Biotechnology), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Liberal Education and the Sciences, EPSCOR Evaluation), the National Academy of Sciences (NSF Decisionmaking for Major Awards), and the Office of Technology Assessment (Human Genome Project). She has been an invited speaker and consultant on science policy and research evaluation at the National Research Foundation of South Africa, Ministry for Research and Technology in France, the Research Council of Norway, the Institute for Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and the Fundamental Science Foundation of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Dr. Cozzens has a distinguished record of service in the fields of science policy and science and technology studies. She is past Chair of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; past Chair of AAAS Section Y; past editor of Research Evaluation; senior consulting editor for Science and Public Policy; past editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values, the journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); and has served on councils and committees for several professional societies. She received over $2 million in external funding over her career, for projects on policy topics ranging from Antarctic research to neuroscience to water supply and sanitation in developing countries.
Dr. Cozzens has published two edited volumes on technology and inequality: Innovation and Inequality: Emerging Technologies in an Unequal World (Edward Elgar, 2014), co-edited with Dhanaraj Thakur, and the Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society Volume II: The Challenges of Equity, Equality, and Development (Springer, summer 2010), co-edited with Jameson Wetmore. She is also author of Social Control and Multiple Discovery in Science: The Opiate Receptor Case (SUNY Press, 1990), and co-editor of Theories of Science in Society (with Thomas F. Gieryn; Indiana University Press, 1991); The Research System in Transition (with Peter Healey, Arie Rip, and John Ziman; Kluwer, 1991); and Invisible Connections: Instruments, Institutions, and Science (with Robert Bud; SPIE, 1992). Her work has appeared in Issues in Science and Technology, Research Evaluation, Policy Studies, The Journal of Technology Transfer, Evaluation and Program Planning, Neuroscience, Social Studies of Science, Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, Scientometrics, Science and Public Policy, and Research Policy, and she has contributed chapters to more than two dozen books. She shared the Lang Award of the Technology Transfer Society for an article co-authored with Julia Melkers.
Her Ph.D. is in sociology from Columbia University (1985) and her bachelor's degree from Michigan State University (1972, summa cum laude). She is a recipient of Rensselaer's Early Career Award, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2015 she was recognized as a "Section Star" at the 25th anniversary event of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University, Sociology
B.S., Michigan State University, Sociology (summa cum laude)
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- Advisor
- Anderson Interface Chair of Natural Systems
Yvette is a highly motivated and passionate Administrative Professional. She brings over 25 years of experience to Georgia Institute of Technology. With 5 of those years working at Clayton State University in various roles as Administrative Assistant in the Computer Science and Information Technology Department and Development Specialist in The Office of Development/Foundation. She has an eagerness to help others which will serve well in her new role. She enjoys interacting with and assisting students on their journey to career success. She is currently pursuing her BS in Integrative Studies.
Zoe Gastelum is a PhD student in the School of Public Policy, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the policy implications of emerging technologies for international nuclear non-proliferation verification activities. Zoe is also a technical staff member at Sandia National Laboratories, where she works on data analysis tools and human-machine teaming for international nuclear safeguards applications. Her PhD studies are funded through Sandia's University Programs.