ASU New Faculty Members (2024-2025)

2024 2025

Welcome to Arizona State University

As executive vice president and university provost, it is my honor to lead ASU’s Academic Enterprise and guide our academic community toward the realization of our ASU Charter aspirations.

In this current moment in history, our role as educators and scholars is particularly complex and rapidly evolving. What remains constant, however, is the transformational role our profession plays in preparing the next generation of leaders and driving solutions for a planet deeply in need.

I commend you and thank you in advance for the many roles you will play as a new faculty member at ASU. You will help deepen your students’ knowledge of themselves and the world. You will contribute to solutions that advance your field and impact the lives of others. You will be called upon to be a force of positive change. And, you will be asked to be a mentor to your students and peers, guiding them through their ASU journey.

At ASU, our career-track and tenure-track faculty members do all of these things because we believe in the transformative power of higher education, and we believe ASU — with its commitment to inclusion and its global reputation for academic excellence — is positioned to deliver the change we aim to make in the world.

My journey at ASU began as a first-generation undergraduate and it is where I returned to begin my academic and administrative career. Like you, I was once a new faculty member on our beautiful campus and I remember being so grateful for the opportunity that lay before me. ASU has always felt like a partner in designing my future, and I am grateful to now have the opportunity to help design its future as university provost. I hope that each of you feels this same sense of support and belonging as you grow with our community.

Sincerely,

Nancy Gonzales

Executive Vice President and University Provost

An exceptional place to call home

Recognized globally as a leading knowledge enterprise, ASU is dedicated to delivering academic excellence, advancing research-based solutions for humanity’s greatest challenges, producing strong and compassionate leaders, ensuring the health of our planet, and providing quality education for all learners.

National Merit Scholars, fall 2024 National Recognition Scholars, fall 2024

#1 public university international students in the U.S. chosen by

An institution designed for inclusion and student success

Undergraduate

142,798

65,174 on campus

Bachelor’s

23,678

Doctorate Graduate Master’s Law Associate

730

41,188 14,419 on campus

Since fall 2013:

Total enrollment at ASU grew by 99% (from 76,728 to 152,812 students).

Enrollment of American Indian/Alaska Native students increased by 38%

Enrollment of Asian students increased by 150%

Enrollment of African American/Black students increased by 157%

Enrollment of Hispanic/Latino students increased by 156%

Enrollment of international students increased by 96% 2023–2024

Total: 183,986 (79,593 on campus | 104,168 online) Total: 37,092

12,390 290 4

Enrollment of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students increased by 116%

Enrollment of students identifying as two or more races increased by 176%.

Enrollment of white students increased by 50%.

1 in 3

undergraduate students enrolled at ASU are first-generation college students.

20,000+

veteran and military-affiliated students are enrolled for fall 2024.

44,329

Home to exceptional students and scholars

University faculty honors and distinctions: 2024

President’s Professors

Pamela A. Marshall

Pauline Hope Cheong

Teresa Wu

Regents

Professors

Jim Bell

Amber Wutich

Hao Yan

A “top producing” university of elite scholars for 10 consecutive years. – Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarships Advisement, 2023

Sponsored by the National Security Education Program for study abroad, ASU has historically been a top producer of Boren winners.

– Top 10 for public institutions; No. 21 overall.

Administered by Fulbright Canada for study in Canada, ASU is one of only 16 partnership institutions in the U.S. No. 2 overall among

colleges and universities.

Scholarship to support postgraduate degree studies at the University of Cambridge.

Charter Professors

Trevor Reed

Maureen McCoy

Provost Teaching Awards

Heather Bateman

Carolyn Cavanaugh-Toft

No. 1 among ABOR-designated peer institutions, No. 2 overall among public institutions and No. 14 overall, ahead of Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Rutgers, Duke and the University of Texas.

Top 20 in the U.S., No. 6 among ABORdesignated peer institutions and No. 7 among public institutions.

2 overall among all colleges and universities.

No. 2 among ABORdesignated peer institutions and No. 6 among public universities.

No. 4 among ABOR-designated peer institutions and No. 17 among all public institutions.

Boren Scholars

Killam Fellows

Goldwater Scholars

Udall Scholars

ASU ahead of University of Texas at Austin, UCLA and MIT

ahead of the California Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania.

ASU

ASU ahead of Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley and Princeton

— Higher Education Research and Development

U.S. National Academy of Inventors, 2024

Association of University Technology Managers, 2023 (HERD) survey, fiscal year 2024

ASU ahead of Princeton, Caltech and Carnegie Mellon

Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, fiscal year 2024

Leading-edge research driving innovation and impact

“ASU faculty represent the highest standard of academic expertise, professional achievement, educational innovation and dedicated service.”

– ASU President Michael Crow

W. P. Carey School of Business

Named in honor of our benefactor, the late investor and philanthropist Wm. Polk Carey, the W. P. Carey School of Business accomplishes extraordinary things. Since our original founding in 1955 and transformative renaming in 2003, W. P. Carey has become one of the top-ranked business schools in the country, as well as the largest. We focus on building sustainable high-value relationships among students, alumni, faculty, businesses and our community. We recruit top minds from around the globe to teach, mentor, and conduct research in and for the communities we serve.

School highlights

Launched first graduate AI in business degree in the U.S. in spring 2024; additionally launched bachelor’s degree in AI in business in summer 2024

No. 1 MBA for entrepreneurship in the U.S., ahead of the University of Michigan, Duke University and UCLA — Poets&Quants, 2025

No. 2 undergraduate supply chain and logistics program, ahead of MIT, The Ohio State University and University of Michigan — U.S. News & World Report, 2024

No. 3 online bachelor’s degrees in business, ahead of Syracuse University, The University of Arizona and Indiana University — Financial Times, 2024

No. 7 Executive MBA globally (EMBA with Shanghai National Accounting Institute), ahead of the University of Oxford, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge — U.S. News & World Report, 2024

students enrolled 23,738

Ohad Kadan

Charles J. Robel Dean, Professor of Finance and Distinguished Chair, W. P.

Carey School of Business

“The W. P. Carey School of Business is the largest business school in the country, and one of the best. Our commitment to maintaining excellence while supporting unprecedented access is a key driver in our success, enabling incredible innovation to drive positive societal impact in the business community and all the communities we serve.”

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Justin D. Bina PhD, Kansas State University

Bina joins ASU as an assistant professor in the Morrison School of Agribusiness. He obtained his doctorate in agricultural economics at Kansas State University. His research interests include consumer behavior, food marketing, and meat and livestock economics. He seeks transparency and effective communication in his efforts to estimate the impacts of government policy and consumer preferences on the U.S. food system.

Karen Donohue

PhD, Northwestern University

Donohue is a W. P. Carey Distinguished Chair and professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management. She is an expert in behavioral operations and sustainable supply chain management. Her research examines methods for coordinating inventory and distribution decisions across supply chains and means to align supply chain activities to support more sustainable outcomes. Donohue previously held faculty positions at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Allison Cole

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cole is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Economics of an Aging Workforce group. Her research focuses on household-saving behavior, particularly in retirement accounts and the interaction of benefits with job choice and labor mobility.

Valeria Fedyk

PhD, London Business School

Fedyk joins ASU as an assistant professor in the Department of Finance. She obtained her doctorate in finance from London Business School in 2024. Fedyk specializes in information transmission and behavioral biases among financial market participants and has completed research in the areas of asset pricing, behavioral finance, fintech and investments. Before obtaining her doctorate, Fedyk worked in the investment banking division at J.P. Morgan and as a product specialist at AQR Capital Management.

Long Hong

PhD, University of WisconsinMadison

Hong is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. He came to ASU from The Ohio State University, where he was a postdoctoral scholar. Hong’s primary research interests are in labor economics, health economics and applied econometrics. His research often combines large administrative data with both design-based and reduced-form and structural methods.

Ilia Krasikov

PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Krasikov joins the Department of Economics as an assistant professor. He comes to ASU from Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, where he was a visiting senior research associate. He was also an assistant professor at HSE University in Russia. Krasikov works on economic theory, information economics, and public finance and optimal taxation.

Xiyang Hu

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Hu is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems. He is a researcher specializing in machine learning, human-AI and trustworthy AI. His research spans humancentered machine learning, data-centric AI, data mining and foundation models. Hu focuses on designing machine learning models to facilitate decision-making across various domains while understanding the social impacts of AI and fostering responsible human-AI interactions. He is dedicated to advancing the integration of AI technologies in ways that are effective and socially responsible.

Che-Wei Liu

PhD, University of Maryland

Liu joins ASU as an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Indiana University. His research interests include IT labor, mobile health, fintech and AI. He received the ISS Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award and several accolades for his work, including recognition at ICIS, CIST and Kelley School of Business.

Martin Mende

PhD, Arizona State University

Mende is a professor in the Department of Marketing, and J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Professor in Services Leadership. His research focuses on services, consumer-firm relationships, and the positive effects of marketing on consumer and societal well-being. Before returning to ASU (where he earned his PhD in 2008), Mende was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky and Florida State University.

Hudson Sessions

PhD, Arizona State University

Sessions is an associate professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. He was previously an assistant professor at the Southern Methodist University. His research interests include multiple jobholders (e.g., hybrid entrepreneurs), gig workers and employees who speak up to improve the status quo. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology and Journal of Management.

Maura L. Scott

PhD, Arizona State University

Scott studies consumer behavior, public policy and services marketing. She is a professor in the Department of Marketing. Her research examines how to help improve consumers’ financial and health decisions, particularly among marginalized and vulnerable populations. She also studies how technology can help to facilitate consumer well-being and inclusion in the marketplace. She has worked in marketing at 3M, Dial Corporation and Motorola. She brings her scholarly research and industry background to the classroom when teaching undergraduate courses and doctoral seminars in consumer behavior.

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Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

With a tradition of top-ranked programs, the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is committed to redefining the future-focused design and arts school. Our college is built on a combination of disciplines unlike any other program in the nation, comprising the ASU Art Museum, ASU FIDM, The Design School, The Sidney Poitier New American Film School, and the Schools of Art; Arts, Media and Engineering; and Music, Dance and Theatre.

Herberger operates in Tempe, Mesa, and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as in downtown Los Angeles and online, giving students access and connections to creatives, alumni and resources across all locations. Spaces include the ASU California Center, home to the ASU FIDM Museum, as well as an industry-standard textile teaching and testing lab, hightech Planar LCD studio systems, and a studio with a large green screen for virtual reality productions. The MIX Center in Mesa — the heart of a new Southwest innovation corridor — is a state-of-the-art media research and production center for emerging technologies in film, spatial media, gaming, AI and robotics. In downtown Phoenix, art students collaborate and create in Grant Street Studios, while popular music and fashion students enjoy top-ofthe-line equipment and spaces at Fusion on First. Venues on the Tempe campus include Organ Hall and the J. Russell and Bonita Nelson Fine Arts Center, home to the ASU Art Museum and the Paul V. Galvin Playhouse. The new University Gateway Building on Mill Avenue is a five-story academic building boasting a state-of-the-art eSports lounge, chamber rehearsal spaces, a music therapy client room, photography studios and dark rooms, and spaces for motion capture, stop motion, and sound recording and mixing.

Institute highlights

No. 1 in visual and performing arts doctorates, ahead of UCLA, Yale and Harvard — National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2023

Top 10 in ceramics and photography graduate programs

— U.S. News & World Report, 2020

At the Herberger Institute, faculty, staff, researchers, and professional and industry partners work in concert to provide learning opportunities in the classroom and in the field, using leading-edge technology and centering communities who can most benefit from creative solutions.

students enrolled

8,801 faculty members

563 degree programs 132

Renée Cheng

Design

Jeff Anderle

MM, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

A pioneer in the world of clarinet and bass clarinet, Anderle is augmenting the sonic and musical possibilities of the clarinet through his work as a soloist, recording artist and member of several cutting-edge ensembles including Sqwonk and Splinter Reeds. Anderle is an assistant professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre. Before coming to ASU, he taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for 16 years.

Elisha V. Charley

MA, University of New Mexico

Charley is a Nihok’aa Diyin Dine’e (holy surface people/Navajo). Her clanship is Bit’ahnii Diyin Dine’e, Deeshchii’nii yá’chíín, Tabaaha dabí’cheii, Táchii’nii dabí’nálí. She is an Indigenous scholar celebrating multiple years of experience teaching and engaging with tribal communities centering Indigenous planning, Navajo epistemology and reciprocity through Indigenous stewardship. She is an assistant professor at The Design School and an urban planning doctoral student at ASU.

Biayna Bogosian PhD, University of Southern California

Bogosian is assistant professor of socially engaged design, with joint appointments in The Design School and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society in the College of Global Futures. Her academic and professional background has enabled her to move across and connect disciplines and various scales of design. Bogosian’s lab at ASU’s Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center integrates architectural technology, spatial media and immersive learning. Through her research, she aims to develop participatory approaches that improve the built environment and enhance civic engagement.

Renee Cheng MArch, Harvard University

Cheng is the incoming dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and professor in The Design School, and a senior vice provost at ASU. Before joining the university, she served as dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, where she led the college to a rapid expansion of research and enrollment while increasing integration and collaboration across disciplines. Previously, Cheng was a professor, associate dean of research and head of the school of architecture at the University of Minnesota. There, she founded an innovative graduate program linking research with practice and licensure that continues at Minnesota and Washington. Earlier in her career, Cheng taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona.

Joshua Gardner

DMA, Arizona State University

Gardner is an associate professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre and an acclaimed clarinetist and pedagogue, currently serving as the director of the Performance Physiology Research Laboratory at ASU. His innovative research in intraoral performance mechanics has led to numerous improvements to single-reed performance pedagogy, while his commitment to contemporary music by living composers with ensembles Égide Duo and Paradise Winds has brought his performances to stages around the world.

Alejandro Gómez Guillén

DMA, University of Colorado at Boulder

An assistant professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre, a conductor and violist, Guillén is passionate about compelling and educational music-making. Before his appointment as ASU director of orchestras, he held leadership roles, including with the Omaha, Bloomington and Fort Worth symphonies. Guillén is music director of Sphere Ensemble, performs with Chaski Quartet, and leads projects at the national and international level. A versatile artist, he loves collaborations with fellow artists that foster community and connection.

Tejaswi Gowda

PhD, Arizona State University

Gowda is a computer scientist with interests in extended reality technologies, Internet of Things and cloud computing. He is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and has worked on real-time systems solutions for a range of applications including wearable technologies, web technologies, MLOps and more. He has applied these technologies in service of many community-embedded projects and has already collaborated with several faculty members across ASU. He is passionate about teaching and dedicated to empowering students with the knowledge, skills and experiences they need to thrive in the XR industry and beyond.

Farhan Karim PhD, The University of Sydney (Australia)

Karim is an associate professor in The Design School. His research focuses on modern South Asian art and architecture, emphasizing climate justice, decolonization and participatory design. He authored “Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India,” and has edited several influential works. Karim has held leadership roles in the Society of Urban and Architectural Historians of Asia and has received fellowships from prestigious institutions. He is passionate about teaching and engaging students in architectural history.

Ryan Golden Kirkpatrick MA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Kirkpatrick is an assistant professor in the School of Art. He specializes in art therapy, specifically exploring how personal disclosure can transform creative responses into shared, idea-driven art. He integrates mental health initiatives with contemporary art methodologies to address broader issues and experiences in mental health. As a therapist, Kirkpatrick has worked at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, and Thresholds, Chicago, Illinois. He received his MFA in interdisciplinary studio art from the San Francisco Art Institute.

JoAnna M. Reyes

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Reyes specializes in the visual and material culture of colonial Mexico and Chicana/o America, exploring identity formation, extraction economy and borderland iconography. Her interdisciplinary approach reexamines colonial histories and material entanglements in the global early modern world. A museum professional, Reyes has worked at the Getty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hispanic Society, and was Aztlán’s book review editor. She is an assistant professor in the School of Art.

Ruiqing (Alex) Ma

PhD, Beijing Film Academy (China)

Ma is an associate professor in The Sidney Poitier New American Film School and a scholar-practitioner in entertainment management and innovation, with more than a decade of experience in film and media. His professional journey encompasses roles as a creative executive and producer at Warner Bros. Additionally, he has held esteemed faculty positions at prestigious research universities. Ma is an alumnus of the Columbia University Creative Producing Program.

Jerry Ruiz MFA, University of California, San Diego

Ruiz is an associate professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre. His directing credits include productions at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Primary Stages, Second Stage Theater, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Alley Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, Repertorio Español, Mint Theater Company, Stages, Zach Theatre, TheatreWorks Hartford, Chalk Rep and Mixed Blood. From 2018 to 2024, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University.

Shaoyu Su

MFA, California Institute of the Arts

Su is an assistant professor in the School of Art and an artist specializing in creative technology. His research in immersive and virtual environments ranges from computer graphics and visual effects to physics and mathematics. He also investigates concepts related to deep spacetime mining, experimental visualization, system design and emergentism. Before coming to ASU, Su worked at the Immersive Media Lab in the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts as the director of technology.

Christine Tomlinson

PhD, University of California, Irvine

Tomlinson is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and a games user experience researcher, who has worked both in industry and academia. She comes to ASU from her most recent role as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern Denmark, and as a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Tomlinson has also worked as a UI/UX researcher at Activision — one of the largest video game publishers in the world. Her research covers video game content and user experiences with video games, in online spaces and with online streaming.

Seth Thorn PhD, Brown University

Thorn is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and a violinist whose research encompasses interaction design and philosophical approaches to computational media. His work interrogates normativity and cognitivism in human-computer interaction. He has been published in premier journals and taken part in toptier conferences spanning philosophy and critical theory, music, and human-computer interaction, including Leonardo Music Journal (MIT), Qui Parle (University of California, Berkeley), Wearable Technologies (Cambridge), Organised Sound (Cambridge) and numerous conferences.

Nate Wheatley MFA, University of Idaho

Wheatley is an assistant professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre. He is interested in nontraditional performance spaces and enjoys working outside of conventional lighting methods. He has worked for companies including Trinity Repertory Company, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Florida Grand Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera and Opera Orlando. Wheatley enjoys reenvisioning classic works for a modern audience. His work has been described as “magical,” “sensitive” and “inventive.”

Xiang (Jason) Zhang

PhD, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Zhang, an assistant professor with a background in both civil engineering and architecture, works interdisciplinarily to enhance built environment sustainability. He holds a joint appointment in The Design School and with the Del E. Webb School of Construction in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. His expertise includes data-driven modeling of building energy performance, building simulation, building-integrated photovoltaics, and environmental building evaluation and design. He is also a board member with the International Association of Building Physics, serving from 2024 to 2027.

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Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

In the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, we deliver a world-class learning experience for our students and advance research and innovation at the highest levels — all at scale. Fulton Schools faculty members are among the foremost experts in their fields. They are excellent teachers and mentors and recognized as international leaders in research with tangible societal benefits. These include leadership of key national initiatives in microelectronics, manufacturing, security, water and civil infrastructure, and with translational outcomes that include nearly 330 patents and 40 startups in the last three years.

We are an engineering school on the rise at the most innovative university in the country in the heart of one of the nation’s fastest growing metropolitan areas. The scale of our faculty research interests and interdisciplinary mindset, combined with more than 50 graduate degree programs and 27 undergraduate degree programs, provide the foundation and collaborative possibilities to advance your ideas and make an impact.

School highlights

No. 1 in the U.S. in engineering degrees awarded to women and people from underrepresented populations — ASEE, 2023

Leading numerous national and regional initiatives, including the Southwest Advanced Prototyping Hub, Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon, International Technology Security and Innovation, and the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative.

Leveraging our expertise in AI, medical imaging, regenerative medicine and biomedical devices to advance the future of health in Arizona and beyond.

Kyle D. Squires

Senior Vice Provost of Engineering, Computing and Technology; Vice Provost of ASU’s Polytechnic campus, Dean and Professor, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

“One of the greatest strengths of the Fulton Schools is our unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence. Our programs equip students to lead transformative advances in engineering, computer science and technology. By offering hands-on learning opportunities and fostering meaningful connections that enhance the educational experience, we cultivate leaders who are shaping a brighter, more sustainable future.”

Deliang Fan

PhD, Purdue University

Fan is an associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. His research interests include efficient AI hardware and algorithms, digital chip design, in-memory computing circuits and architecture, and adversarial and trustworthy AI systems. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Kunal Garg

PhD, University of Michigan

Garg is an assistant professor at the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy specializing in multi-robot system autonomy. Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Garg earned the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize and the Professor Pierre T. Kabamba Award from the University of Michigan for his research contributions to control systems.

Zhengtao Gan PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

Gan is a researcher, engineer and assistant professor in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks. He has more than 10 years of experience working in the areas of computational mechanics, additive manufacturing and machine learning. His achievements have been recognized with awards from the Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Lacy Greening

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Greening joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in industrial engineering. She received her doctoral degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Alan Erera. During her doctoral studies, she was a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow, collaborated with The Home Depot, and served as a research scientist intern with Amazon’s Middle Mile Planning, Research, and Optimization Sciences group.

Xiangyu Guo PhD, Texas A&M University

Guo is an assistant professor in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks. With expertise in optical fabrication and testing, laser interferometry, and stereo vision, Guo is excited to mentor students interested in these fields. She is passionate about the potential of optical methods to revolutionize manufacturing and strives to make processes better, faster and more efficient.

Vivek Gupta PhD, University of Utah

Gupta joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in computer science and engineering. Before coming to ASU, Gupta served as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania working on natural language processing problems on semi-structured data. He is a past recipient of the Bloomberg Data Science Fellowship, the Microsoft Research Fellowship and the Ericsson Innovation Award, India.

Angeli Jayme PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jayme is an assistant professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. An expert in pavement infrastructure, Jayme has received an array of awards, including the K. B. Woods Award from the National Academies Transportation Research Board. Her research spans tirepavement interaction, asphalt concrete, pavement structural mechanics, rehabilitation and preservation, energy harvesting, and advanced mobility.

Cole Hatfield Joslyn PhD, Purdue University

Joslyn is an assistant professor in The Polytechnic School. His current research explores sense of belonging in engineering education and the integration of cultural, community, racial or ethnic values into educational success strategies. He is a qualitative researcher, steeped in various methods, such as participatory methods, case study and autoethnography, which he combines with an overarching methodology of action research.

Deniz Berfin Karakoc

PhD, University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign

Karakoc joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in industrial engineering. She was an invitee to the Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Stars early career program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was awarded the 2023–2024 Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Sanaz Koohfar

PhD, North Carolina State University

Koohfar joins The Polytechnic School as an assistant professor. Her research interests encompass broad areas of electrochemical energy conversion and solid-state interfacial effects. Her work focuses on laying the scientific groundwork for designing more sustainable and efficient electrochemical devices and establishing structure-function relationships driven by novel phenomena at the interface of oxides, with applications in multiferroicity and clean energy.

Taejoon Kim

PhD, Purdue University

Kim is an associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Kim joined ASU from the University of Kansas, where he was an associate professor. He was the recipient of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize and the Harry Talley Excellence in Teaching Award. Kim’s expertise includes wireless communications, statistical signal processing and network security. He leads national efforts to develop advanced, secure mobile networks.

Matthew R. Landsman

PhD,

The University of Texas at Austin

Landsman joins the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment as an assistant professor of environmental engineering. Before coming to ASU, he held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he used synchrotron X-rays to characterize and advance new technologies for water purification. Landsman’s teaching and research interests revolve around water quality and treatment as well as physical and chemical processes within natural and engineered systems.

Shan Lin

PhD, University of Washington

Lin is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Her research focuses on surgical robotics and medical devices, with current interests in AI, perception, planning, control and manipulation for surgical robots. She won the Best Student Paper Award at International Symposium on Medical Robotics 2024, received the Pioneers of Medical Robotics Award at International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2023, and was selected as a Rising Star in EECS in 2022.

Ozgur Ozmen

PhD, Purdue University

Ozmen joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in computer science and engineering. His research focuses on improving the security and privacy of emerging computing platforms and their interactions with physical environments. Ozmen is a past recipient of the Diamond Award for Academic Excellence from the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security and the Computer Science Merit Recognition Award at Purdue.

Jaron Mink

PhD, University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign

Mink joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in computer science and engineering. He received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for his work examining the trust classification decisions of machine learning models. His community service efforts include the development of the SAIL: Cybersecurity Ninja Training Course designed to teach high school students to protect themselves online.

Chanyeop Park

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Park is an associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering where he continues his pioneering research on high-voltage power semiconductor packaging. His work focuses on addressing the challenges that arise with the advancement of power semiconductors. By exploring innovative concepts and approaches using electric field-emitting electrets, Park seeks to develop groundbreaking solutions that enhance the performance and reliability of power semiconductor technologies.

Shiva Pooladvand PhD, Purdue University

Pooladvand is assistant professor in the Del E. Webb School of Construction in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on incorporating intelligent humanmachine interaction, immersive environments (VR, AR, MR and AV), artificial intelligence, sensing technologies, data-driven methods and human factors to advance automation, smart safety and productivity within construction workplaces.

Kiran Ramesh

PhD, North Carolina State University

Ramesh is an associate professor of aerospace engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. He joins ASU from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where he spent nearly 10 years researching different aspects of aerodynamics. His overarching research goal is to derive new mathematical theory to better understand unsteady flows. Ramesh has received honorable recognitions, including the 2017 Young Investigator Award by Engineering.

Minglei Qu

PhD, University of WisconsinMadison

Qu joins the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy as an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. He studies the fundamental physics and materials science in metal additive manufacturing by using synchrotron and neutron-based in-situ characterization tools. In 2022, Qu designed an artificial intelligence-based pioneering system to control defects in metal additive manufacturing using nanoparticles.

David Rosowsky

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Rosowsky is a senior advisor to the ASU president, senior fellow of the University Design Institute and a Foundation Professor of Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. He is an accomplished engineering faculty member, researcher, author and university senior leader having served as department head, dean of engineering, provost and senior vice president, and vice president of research at major research universities. He is frequently invited as a speaker on topics related to research and innovation, governance, leadership and the future of higher education.

Asif Salekin

PhD, University of Virginia

Salekin leads the Laboratory for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Sensing in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering. His research intersects human-centered computing, machine learning, cyber-physical systems and usable sensing security within ubiquitous computing, focusing on advancing smart and mobile health. He’s an associate editor for Association for Computing Machinery journals; The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (Ubicomp); and Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, with research supported by National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

Malle Schilling

PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Schilling is an assistant professor in The Polytechnic School. Her primary research areas focus on rural engineering education and how rural students access engineering pathways, and community engagement to address wicked problems through collaboration and systems thinking. Schilling received recognition as an Emerging Engagement Scholar through the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, as well as recognition for her research, having received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship as a doctoral student.

Lindsay Sanneman

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sanneman joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in computer science and engineering. Her research focuses on human-centered approaches to AI transparency and explainability. Sanneman was named a Future Leader in Aerospace and has been awarded the Siegel Research Fellowship. As a member of MIT’s Work of the Future task force, she explored how to implement manufacturing technology in a human-centered way.

Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Shandhi is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and Biodesign Institute’s Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors. His lab focuses on the development of reliable and equitable digital health technologies, such as wearable sensors and AI and ML algorithms, that enable personalized health care and remote patient monitoring for patients with chronic and infectious diseases. He received the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship and National Institutes of Health mHealth Training Institute Scholarship.

Bing Si PhD, Arizona State University

Si joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an associate professor in industrial engineering. She most recently served as an associate professor in the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science in Binghamton University. Si is the recipient of the Early-Stage Distinguished Research Award and the Million Dollar Award. She serves as a guest editor for Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering.

Siyuan Song PhD, University of Alabama

Song is an associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Her research primarily focuses on construction safety and health, workforce development, AI in construction, construction robotics, and engineering education. Before joining ASU, Song was an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama.

Joana Marie Sipe PhD, Duke University

Sipe is an assistant professor in integrated engineering in the School of Integrated Engineering. Her research focuses on the release and breakdown of emerging contaminants from materials (e.g., microplastics) to create a more sustainable future through lifecycle analysis focusing on environmental and public health. She is also dedicated to teaching the emerging community of engineers at ASU’s West Valley campus with service to first-generation and Latinx students.

Tiezheng Tong PhD, Northwestern University

Tong is an associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Before coming to ASU, he was an associate professor of environmental engineering at Colorado State University. He completed a postdoctoral position at Yale University. He has published nearly 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, which have been cited more than 6,000 times globally with an H-index of 37. He is the recipient of many academic and professional awards, including the CAREER Award from National Science Foundation.

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou PhD, National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Tsiropoulou is an associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Her research focuses on game theory, reinforcement learning and decisionmaking with applications in wireless networks, communications and computing, power systems and smart grid networks, public safety systems, and social networks. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CRII award, and the Early Career Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Communications Society Internet Technical Committee.

Rebecca Wachs PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Wachs joins the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering as an associate professor. Wachs’ current research focuses on engineering treatments for and developing models of chronic orthopedic pain and is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Before coming to ASU, she was an assistant professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Anthony Waas PhD, California Institute of Technology

Waas joins ASU as the director of the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. With expertise in mechanical and aerospace engineering, specifically lightweight material composites and advanced manufacturing, he has served as a professor and chair of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan and the University of Washington. Waas brings a strong record of leadership in engineering education and aims to inspire his faculty and staff to perform their best.

Yanbing Wang PhD, Vanderbilt University

Wang is an assistant professor in intelligent transportation systems in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Her work focuses on the development of transportation cyber-physical systems through large-scale traffic sensing, modeling and simulation. As a five-time recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, she is dedicated to advancing research and fostering student growth in the field of transportation engineering.

Chenkai Weng PhD, Northwestern University

Weng joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in computer science and engineering. He is a recipient of the J.P. Morgan PhD Fellowship and the Northwestern Terminal Year Fellowship. His work on zero-knowledge proofs for circuits and polynomials was named the runner-up for best paper at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

Tianyu Yang

PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Yang is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. Most recently, she was a postgraduate researcher at Northwestern University where she developed autonomous and self-powered thermal safety systems for skinintegrated wearable devices. Yang has published multiple research papers on thermal energy systems in major scientific journals, including in Nature Communications.

Daricia Wilkinson PhD, Clemson University

Wilkinson is an assistant professor in the human systems engineering program of The Polytechnic School. Her research rests at the intersection of responsible artificial intelligence, online safety and human computer interaction. Wilkinson previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI group at Microsoft Research NYC and was named one of the top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2023.

Jordan R. Yaron PhD, Arizona State University

Yaron is an assistant professor of chemical engineering with the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and a joint appointment in the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation. He is an accomplished tissue repair augmentation researcher whose work has received various notable recognitions, including the 2022 Wound Healing Foundation 3M Fellowship Award, which is the most prestigious young investigator grant awarded to only one researcher each year.

Mostafa Yourdkhani

PhD, McGill University (Canada)

Yourdkhani is an associate professor in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks. His research spans multiple disciplines, focusing on enabling nextgeneration manufacturing of advanced polymeric materials and fiber-reinforced composites. His main research interests include advanced manufacturing of polymers and composites, processing science of composites, multifunctional materials, autonomous material systems, digital manufacturing, and bio-inspired material design.

Qiaoning (Carol) Zhang

PhD, University of Michigan

Zhang is an assistant professor of human systems engineering at The Polytechnic School. She earned her doctorate in information from the University of Michigan, specializing in how social contexts influence our interactions with cutting-edge technologies such as AI, health care robots and automated vehicles. Her research seeks to develop technology that is not only efficient but also intuitive and empathetic, focusing on human-AI collaboration, human-robot interaction and user experience design.

Xi Yu PhD, Boston University

Yu is an assistant professor in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks. She previously worked in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University. With expertise in multi-robot systems, autonomy in extreme environments and autonomous systems, Yu is passionate about bridging the gap between engineering concepts and real-world applications. She looks forward to expanding the knowledge base of ASU students.

Baoyu Zhou PhD, Lehigh University

Zhou joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in industrial engineering. Zhou served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan as well as in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He won the Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Award and received the Elizabeth V. Stout Dissertation Award at Lehigh University.

Ben Zhou

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Zhou joins the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an assistant professor in computer science and engineering. Zhou was awarded the ENIAC Fellowship and was a finalist for the Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. He was a research intern for Amazon AWS and the Allen Institute for AI. His work has been accepted for publication by numerous organizations, including the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Shaofeng Zou PhD, Syracuse University

Zou is an associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. His research focuses on fundamental algorithms and theory of machine learning, reinforcement learning, statistical signal processing and information theory, and their applications to connected and autonomous systems, health science and power systems. He was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2024), NSF CRII Award (2020) and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Paper Award (2023).

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College of Global Futures

At the College of Global Futures, we stand at the crossroads of a profound moment in human history. The accelerating pressures on our planet and society demand that we think differently, act decisively and lead boldly. Part of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, the college is dedicated to addressing humanity’s greatest challenges— sustainably, equitably and with an unrelenting commitment to innovation.

Our four schools – the School of Complex Adaptive Systems, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the School of Ocean Futures, and the School of Sustainability –reflect the intricate systems upon which our world depends. They serve as catalysts for discovery, educating students to not only understand the complexity of our planet but to create the pathways that will allow humanity to thrive within it.

This is no ordinary academic journey. Beyond the classroom, students engage in exploring innovative solutions for a better future — such as new energy systems, climate solutions, water security, revolutionary food and transportation systems, and other transformative innovations. These are not merely academic pursuits; they are the scaffolding of industries poised to transform our world and define the trillion-dollar economies of the future. The next chapter of human progress will be written by those who can navigate the complexities of our interconnected world. Here, we prepare those leaders.

We are not just imagining the future; we are building it

College highlights

No. 1 in the U.S. and Top 10 in the world for driving global impact in addressing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals — Times Higher Education, 2024

No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 2 in the world for sustainability — AASHE Sustainability Tracking, Rating and Assessment System, 2024

95% of our master’s graduate students are employed or are furthering their education.

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Stephanie Arcusa PhD, Northern Arizona University

Arcusa, an earth scientist at the intersection of climate policy and technology, holds joint appointments with the School of Complex Adaptive Systems and the Thunderbird School of Global Management. She studies past climates to prepare for future changes and investigates solutions to halt humandriven climate change, specializing in negative emission technologies.

Kris Hartley

PhD, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Hartley is an assistant professor in the School of Sustainability. He researches the role of public policy in technology-enabled sustainability transitions, particularly circular economy. His interdisciplinary work focuses on problem definitions and epistemics. Hartley was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar (2020) and has held faculty appointments at Cornell University, University of Melbourne and City University of Hong Kong.

Kelle Dhein

PhD, Arizona State University

Dhein is a philosopher and historian of science who specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and complex systems science. He also works on Indigenous bioethics and Indigenous data sovereignty. He joins the School of Complex Adaptive Systems as an assistant professor.

Upmanu Lall

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Lall has more than four decades of scholarship on climate, water, energy and food systems optimization and risk analysis, hydrology, nonlinear dynamics, and data science. He joins ASU as a Global Futures Professor in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems and the director of the Water Institute. His research spans theory, algorithm development and in field engagement on policy and engineering solutions for communities and countries.

Jesse Senko

PhD, Arizona State University

Senko is an assistant professor in the School of Ocean Futures and School for the Future of Innovation in Society. His research links natural and social science with innovation and governance to address coastal conservation challenges. He works with multiple stakeholders in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans to develop, test and implement approaches that protect sea turtles and other vulnerable marine megafauna while ensuring coastal livelihoods. A winner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize, Senko is a member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group and consults internationally on fisheries sustainability and sea turtle conservation.

Stylianos (Stelios) Syropoulos

PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Syropoulos is an assistant professor in the School of Sustainability and directs the Intergenerational Decisions and Effective Action Lab. The IDEA lab conducts research on how to effectively increase sustainable, prosocial, moral and intergenerationally beneficent decisionmaking from an interdisciplinary perspective. A core interest is to understand what motivates individuals to engage in prosocial and sustainable behaviors that are often seen as costly (e.g., in effort, time and resources).

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Thunderbird School of Global Management

A unit of the Arizona State University Enterprise, Thunderbird School of Global Management has been the premier institution for leadership and management education for more than 75 years. The guiding principle established at Thunderbird’s founding in 1946 is best summarized in a phrase coined by original faculty member Dr. William Lytle Schurz, “Borders frequented by trade and diplomacy seldom need soldiers.”

Thunderbird’s unique combination of physical and virtual regional centers embodies the school’s mission of advancing global leadership. With more than 15 dedicated regional representatives, we are well-positioned to serve our diverse global community. Our physical locations include Phoenix, AZ, USA (Global Headquarters); Geneva, Switzerland; Dubai, UAE; Nairobi, Kenya; Seoul, Korea; and Jakarta, Indonesia. Virtual centers include Tokyo, Japan; Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Amsterdam, Netherlands; London, United Kingdom; Mexico City, Mexico; Taipei, Taiwan; and Cairo, Egypt. Additionally, Thunderbird’s presence in partnership with ASU extends to the ASU California Center in Los Angeles and the Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center in Washington, D.C.

School highlights

No. 1 in the world for international trade, scoring 100 of 100 points and ranking ahead of Harvard, Penn (Wharton) and IMD — QS International Trade Rankings, 2024

No. 17 in the world for executive education and exceptional delivery of custom programs — Financial Times, 2024

The Francis and Dionne Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative enriches the lives of learners worldwide through self-paced, online, multi-language global entrepreneurship and innovation education programs, at no cost to the learner.

Charla Griffy-Brown Dean, Director General and Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management

“Thunderbird faculty exemplify the very excellence and innovation that have defined our institution for more than 75 years. By equipping our students to navigate and lead in an ever-evolving global landscape, we are shaping and empowering the next generation of leaders to redefine the future.”

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College of Health Solutions

Founded in 2012, the College of Health Solutions is the only health college of its kind, bringing together multiple disciplines to consider health from every angle. With degree programs in biomedical informatics, biomedical diagnostics, health care systems, movement sciences, nutrition, population health, speech and hearing science, and more, we aim to meet the global demand for health professionals ready to improve outcomes for individuals and communities.

Our mission goes beyond education. We translate scientific health research and discovery into real-world practice as our faculty, students, researchers and partners collaborate to make a tangible impact today. Whether our graduates become dietitians, doctors, physical therapists, community health workers or speech-language pathologists, or work in research labs, clinical settings or corporate offices, they are united by a shared purpose: improving health for everyone. Together, we strive to shift the focus of health from illness to wellness, living up to what it means to be the College of Health Solutions.

College highlights

A thriving network: More than 1,000 community partners — including leading private companies, nonprofits and health organizations — collaborate with us to advance health solutions, with new partnerships forming every year.

Top in Arizona: We lead the state in preparing graduates for physical therapy programs, outpacing all other Arizona universities.

National recognition: Our accredited Master of Science program in communication disorders is ranked #21 in the country by U.S. News & World Report in the field of speech-language pathology – ahead of Rush University Medical Center, University of Florida and University of South Carolina.

Hands-on impact: Every year, nearly 300 of our students enhance community health through internships and placements in movement science, health education and health promotion — turning knowledge into action.

Transformative research: Through our faculty-led translational teams, over 950 students have contributed more than 100,000 hours to groundbreaking research, resulting in 103 grants and 142 publications.

Michael Yudell

Interim Dean and Professor, College of Health Solutions

At the College of Health Solutions, we bring together students, faculty, researchers, clinical professionals and community partners to solve pressing health problems and improve the lives of the families and communities we serve. We are excited to welcome the newest members of our talented and inspiring faculty to ASU and Health Solutions. We look forward to discovering how together we can make positive changes in health and health care throughout Arizona and beyond.”

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Amanda Urbina Hunter

PhD, The University of Arizona

Hunter is an assistant professor of population health. Her research centers on improving health equity in Indigenous communities throughout Arizona, including partnerships with two different Tribal Nations to develop, implement and evaluate the culturally grounded after-school intervention, Native Spirit. This program leverages cultural values and guidance from local cultural knowledge holders to strengthen cultural identity, self-esteem and resilience, while preventing risky behaviors in Indigenous youth. Additionally, her research with the Pascua Yaqui Tribe examines efforts to prosecute domestic violence offenses.

Md Tuhin Sheikh

PhD, University of Connecticut

Sheikh is an assistant professor of biostatistics. His expertise encompasses competing risks and semi competing risks survival data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, and cure rate model, as well as Bayesian inference, Bayesian computation, model assessment tools, data integration and interim analysis in clinical trials. His research uses UK Biobank; All of Us; electronic health records; cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and type 2 diabetes data; statistical genomics; and microbiome data for premature babies.

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College of Integrative Sciences and Arts

The College of Integrative Sciences and Arts is a leader in applied and career-connected learning, with continuous innovation in teaching and curriculum development — and proudly serves a diverse student population in which first-generation, Hispanic/Latinx, transfer, and veteran or military-affiliated students are highly represented. The college is also home to ASU’s Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement, a national leader in the emerging field of veteran studies and research.

College highlights

The School of Applied Professional Studies combines career-connected learning outcomes with industry-focused education to prepare students for rewarding roles in high-demand and tech-forward careers through its degrees in project management, organizational leadership, technical communication and user experience.

The School of Applied Sciences and Arts advances experiential and integrative learning, with a focus on applied sciences and mathematics, interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. Degrees include preveterinary medicine, pre-dental and sustainable horticulture concentrations in applied biological sciences; integrative social science; and science, technology and society, among others; certificates in wildlife management and indoor farming; and a new bachelor’s degree in applied military and veterans studies.

The School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology enjoys national recognition for its research-based counseling psychology doctoral program and is home to the first and largest bachelor’s degree program in counseling and applied psychological science in the country. The program equips students to work with diverse clients in various mental health settings and it’s one of the few in the nation to offer students the ability to study in the counseling field from the undergraduate level to an accredited PhD program.

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Joanna Grabski

Dean and Foundation Professor, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts

“Our deep commitment to student success and the ASU Charter drives our signature focus on career-connected learning within the sciences and liberal arts. Providing opportunities for students to integrate learning and doing through applied curriculum helps them discover their passion, leads to employment success and helps graduates develop transferable skills they can draw from throughout their lives.”

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Molly Bechtel

PhD, Northern Arizona University

Bechtel is a disease ecologist and assistant professor in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts with interests in pathogen and wildlife interactions. She has experience working with desert bighorn sheep, woodrats, desert tortoises and several species of amphibians. Although her specific interests involve studying tick-borne pathogen interactions in desert ecosystems, she is also interested in how climate change can affect pathogen transmission in amphibian populations.

Kelsey Lyberger

PhD, University of California, Davis

Lyberger is an assistant professor in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts. She is an evolutionary ecologist who studies how rapid evolution and local adaptation influence population dynamics and disease spread. Her research integrates mathematical models and experimental systems, with a focus on understanding the impacts of climate change on species interactions and vectorborne diseases.

Kyle Benowitz PhD, University of Georgia

Benowitz is an evolutionary biologist and an assistant professor in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts. His research uses genomic approaches to understand how social interactions influence the course of evolution, using insects as model organisms.

Saba Rudsari

PhD, New Mexico State

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Rudsari is an assistant professor with the School of Applied Professional Studies. She holds a doctorate in business administration and a background in academia, business and engineering. She is interested in integrating engineering principles with business strategies to enhance project outcomes, emphasizing innovative methods and real-world applications to tackle complex project management challenges.

Ankita Sahu

PhD, Texas A&M University

Sahu is an assistant professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology. Her research examines the application of multicultural theories in graduate training to improve skills-based outcomes. Specifically, she explores instructional and evaluation strategies for multicultural case conceptualization and counseling skills with the aim of promoting culturally responsive mental health care.

Mayra Morales Tirado

PhD, University of Manchester (United Kingdom)

Tirado, an assistant professor at the School of Applied Professional Studies, grew up in rural Mexico, where migration was a significant aspect of her life. Her research focuses on understanding how organizations can function better. She’s particularly interested in the relationships governing behavior, policy and society to help scholars and practitioners understand and address pressing social issues. She integrates studies of leadership, collaboration, ethics, diversity and inclusion into her academic life.

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New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at ASU’s rapidly growing and vibrant West Valley campus focuses on a personalized learning experience and the complex and distinct ways that various fields of study interact and affect one another to better prepare students for the future.

The undergraduate and graduate degrees offered within New College are designed to provide innovative coursework and practical, applied, hands-on experience that prepares students for the social, economic, political and cultural challenges they will encounter in a rapidly changing and dynamic global community.

College highlights

Four interconnected, interdisciplinary schools spanning the arts, behavioral sciences, forensics, humanities, math and natural sciences.

Home of the truly unique and frontier-defining School of Interdisciplinary Forensics in the Western U.S., with specialized undergraduate and graduate degrees including forensic science, forensic psychology and digital forensics.

Opportunities to work with world-class faculty on research projects funded by agencies including NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Justice.

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Todd Sandrin

Vice Provost, Dean and Professor, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

“At ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, interdisciplinarity is our superpower. Our core design dissolves disciplinary boundaries and barriers as our students work closely with our world-class faculty to create solutions to wickedly complex problems that exist at the intersections of multiple academic disciplines. New College graduates are master learners, prepared to engage, adapt and create change in the world here in the West Valley community and far beyond.”

Rachel Corbman PhD, Stony Brook University

Corbman is a historian of U.S. feminist and queer social movements in the late 20th century and an assistant professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. Her first book, “Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation,” is under contract with Duke University Press. Her next project, “Before Crip Theory,” is a history of disability activism in the long women’s liberation movement.

Melanie Fessinger

PhD, City University of New York

Fessinger is an assistant professor of psychology in the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics. She received her doctorate in psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. Her doctoral training included specializations in psychology and law, basic and applied social psychology, and quantitative methods. She holds a master’s degree in legal studies from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research uses social psychological theory to understand legal decision-making processes with a specific focus on decisions to waive constitutional rights (e.g., guilty pleas, Miranda waivers).

Allison N. Cramer PhD, Washington State University

Cramer is a marine ecologist and assistant professor in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. She has more than 10 years of experience teaching and mentoring students, working collaboratively to help them achieve their goals. Her research focuses on understanding how processes drive the distribution and persistence of marine organisms, particularly across multiple scales of time and space. As a scientist, she integrates across scales concurrently using data science, instrumentation and experimentation to understand how patterns of biodiversity are maintained in nature and predict how communities shift when ecosystems change.

Bogdan Gavrea PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Gavrea’s research interests are in applied mathematics including complementarity systems and differential variational inequalities, simulation and control of rigid body systems in the presence of uncertainties, stochastic and numerical optimization, mathematical inequalities with applications to probability, statistical learning, and approximation theory. His doctoral dissertation (2006) focused on the simulation of rigid body systems with applications in robotics. He is an assistant professor in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences.

Yixuan He

DPhil, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

He is an assistant professor with the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. Her doctoral research, fully funded as a Clarendon Scholar, centers around graph neural networks, with a focus on signed networks, directed networks, temporal networks, applications to network analysis and interdisciplinary research. She has published research papers in numerous top machine learning conferences and has contributed to open-source libraries.

Jihun Joun

PhD, Korea University (South Korea)

Joun is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics. He has collaborated with investigation agencies and corporations on various digital forensic cases and projects. His research focuses on digital forensics, including data remnants analysis, digital profiling, steganography, incident response and eDiscovery. Before joining ASU, he was an assistant professor at Sangmyung University in South Korea.

Min Jang

PhD, University of Surrey (United Kingdom)

Jang, assistant professor of forensic chemistry in the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics, earned his doctorate from the University of Surrey, U.K., focusing on drug detection via fingerprints. He later expanded his expertise to environmental analysis at the Korean Research Institute of Chemical Technology. His current research includes forensics, DUI and eco-toxicity, with multiple publications in prominent journals.

G.M. Fahad Mostafa

PhD, Texas Tech University

Mostafa is an assistant professor of statistics with the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. His research spans various areas, including statistical machine learning, UQ, computational biology and biostatistics. Mostafa’s interdisciplinary work integrates advanced statistical modeling, time series analysis, and ML and AI techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of disease prediction, diagnosis and treatment, contributing significantly to the advancement of biomedical science. Before joining ASU, he was an ORISE fellow at National Center for Toxicological Research, FDA.

Raka Sen

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Sen is a sociologist in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research interests include environmental, labor, urban, gender, migration and development studies. Situated at the intersection of all of these subjects, Sen works to understand how climate change and development are reshaping the everyday lives of local people in the Sundarban region of India and Bangladesh. Building off of ethnographic engagement and a longitudinal survey, she aims to challenge traditional notions of climate adaptation in lieu of theoretical frameworks that better encapsulate the lived realities of people facing climate change right now.

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Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is widely recognized as one of the nation’s premier professional journalism and mass communication programs. Rooted in the time-honored values that characterize its namesake — accuracy, responsibility, objectivity, integrity — the school fosters excellence and ethics among students as they master the professional skills they need to succeed in the digital media world of today and tomorrow.

The Cronkite School leads the way in media education with its innovative teaching hospital model, for which it has received international acclaim. All students gain hands-on experience in tools and techniques across news, strategic communications, emerging media and more, while cultivating a spirit of collaboration and innovation. Students cover public affairs and sports from news bureaus in Phoenix, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., producing impactful digital coverage and a nightly newscast on Arizona PBS that reaches 1.5 million households across the state.

School highlights

The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication won the 3M Truth in Science Award in the Online News Association 2024 Online Journalism Awards.

Top overall school in the Broadcast Education Association’s 2024 ranking of schools based on the creative achievements of its students: No. 1 in Overall Programs, Top Winning News Programs and Top Winning Sports Programs categories. Ranked No. 2 in the Top Winning Documentary Programs.

Cronkite faculty are renowned media scholars and accomplished industry professionals who do more than teach. They are sought-after experts, known across the media landscape as award-winning writers, producers, columnists, content creators and researchers. Their experience and insights enrich the student experience, serve communities around the world and drive the media industries forward.

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Battinto L. Batts Jr. Dean and Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

“Our Cronkite community of scholars have dedicated themselves to promoting excellence in journalism and mass communication, while serving as global leaders in a constantly evolving industry.”

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Marcos Colón

PhD, University of WisconsinMadison

Colón joins the Cronkite School as an assistant professor and a Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor of Media and Indigenous Communities. An award-winning documentarian, he will focus on the complex interactions and relationships between media and the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of Indigenous populations. Colón earned his doctorate at the University of WisconsinMadison, and previously served on the faculty at Florida State University.

Chelsea Reynolds

PhD, University of Minnesota

Reynolds joins the Cronkite School as an associate professor and the inaugural director of the Los Angeles-based Center for Inclusion and Culture in Media — a role well-aligned with her background in magazine journalism and years as a scholar of journalism, sexual communication and traumainformed pedagogy. She joins ASU from California State University, Fullerton with a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Minnesota.

David Keating PhD, Michigan State University

Keating joins the Cronkite School as an associate professor from the University of New Mexico. He will teach courses in strategic communication and advance his research in social influence processes and health communication. Before his academic career, he worked in private-sector research, supporting projects for government clients. He earned his doctorate at Michigan State University.

Ali Zain

PhD, University of South Carolina

Zain joins the Cronkite School as an assistant professor. His interdisciplinary, mixed-methods research touches misinformation, politics, health and more, and he will help advance biometrics research while teaching strategic communication courses. Zain completed his doctorate at the University of South Carolina.

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Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU is a premier public law school committed to excellence, public service and the advancement of justice. With its main campus in downtown Phoenix and additional locations in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., ASU Law offers intellectually rigorous and practically focused academic experiences that empower graduates to become skilled, compassionate advocates and impactful leaders. Ranked No. 36 nationally by U.S. News & World Report and recognized as the nation’s leader in graduating the most legal master’s students, ASU Law provides a personalized and innovative legal education that prepares the next generation of lawyers and industry professionals.

Honoring its namesake, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, ASU Law embodies her legacy of integrity, impact and dedication to public service. We also believe our students’ wellness is a critical component of their law school experience and is core to our mission. The college is at the forefront of using technology to reimagine legal education, including AI-enriched curricula and online degree pathways designed to promote public service and address legal deserts.

College highlights

ASU Law welcomed incredibly high-credentialed and inclusive JD classes, with a median 165 LSAT score and GPA of 3.9 — the highest in the school’s history. ASU Law’s master’s programs have also expanded, drawing in a cohort that includes 12 military-affiliated students, 16 international students from nine countries and students from three tribes.

Five specialty programs rank in the top 25 including legal writing, environmental law, dispute resolution, health care law and criminal law — U.S. News & World Report, 2025

No. 1 in the nation for producing the most legal master’s graduates from 2019 to 2023. The college offers innovative master’s degree programs with 22 areas of emphasis, including artificial intelligence, business law, health care compliance and Federal Indian Law, designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of legal principles across diverse industries.

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Stacy Leeds

Willard H. Pedrick Dean, Regents and Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

“At ASU Law, we are dedicated to providing a flexible, top-tier legal education that empowers students to drive meaningful change in their fields. Our faculty scholars are industry leaders, judges and attorneys who play a vital role in teaching, mentoring and career placement, ensuring students are prepared for long-term success. By fostering a whole-student approach, we prioritize individual well-being and resilience, equipping our students to thrive both in law school and throughout their professional journeys.”

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Ellen Bublick

JD, Harvard Law School

Bublick is the Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice. Bublick writes the leading U.S. tort law treatise, “The Law of Torts,” and the leading hornbook, “Hornbook on Torts” (with Hayden and Dobbs). Her books and articles have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and by courts in every federal circuit, 49 states and many foreign jurisdictions.

Jonathan Green

PhD, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

JD,

Yale Law School

Green, an associate professor of law, is an intellectual historian whose research centers on the history of judging and judicial power. He teaches civil procedure and statutory interpretation. He earned his JD from Yale, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and his doctorate in history from University of Cambridge. He clerked with Judge Neomi Rao on the D.C. Circuit.

Charles Capps

PhD, University of Chicago

JD, University of Chicago Law School

Capps is an associate professor teaching courses on criminal law, jurisprudence and the religion clauses. His research focuses on the intersection of law and philosophy, and theories of legal interpretation. Previously, he practiced as deputy solicitor general for Missouri and as an independent appellate litigation consultant, representing clients ranging from state trial court to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jennifer Selin

PhD, Vanderbilt University

JD, Wake Forest University School of Law

Selin is an associate professor teaching administrative and constitutional law. Selin’s research explores the democratic accountability of the administrative state. She has written extensively on the responsiveness of federal administrators to the president and Congress and how the legal structure of federal agencies affects policy implementation. Selin served as senior attorney advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States.

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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences educates the next generation through the power of language, culture and society, critical thinking, scientific exploration, and discovery. Through first-of-their-kind degree programs, world-class research and innovative learning experiences, The College is committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale, while supporting the largest and highly diverse student population within ASU.

Students in The College have access to a variety of programs and centers within the three divisions: humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. This interdisciplinary approach transforms students into socially aware critical thinkers who have the tools to adapt and succeed in their careers and lives.

Jeffrey Cohen — Dean, Humanities

“The humanities connect the study of the past to the creation of a better future, emphasize the connection of language and story to creating global understanding, and offer the opportunity for students to activate their creativity and curiosity.”

Ferran Garcia-Pichel — Interim Dean, Natural Sciences

“The division of natural sciences is the engine of fundamental discovery, making ASU a top research-comprehensive public university. We are preparing the scientific leaders of tomorrow to identify solutions to the biggest challenges our world presently faces.”

Magda Hinojosa — Dean, Social Sciences

“The social sciences are at the forefront of identifying solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, from disparities in public health outcomes to ongoing climate change crises. Our students develop the skills to not only thrive in their careers, but to become the leaders of tomorrow.”

students enrolled

31,572 faculty members

1,931 degree programs 236

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“The College is critical for ASU’s ability to fulfill the promise of its charter. With a vast majority of students passing through The College at some point during their ASU experience, it’s here that many of them discover their passions and explore new ideas that will lead them to a fulfilling future.”

Maura Allaire PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Allaire is an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. With expertise in water resource economics, she focuses her research on the development of improved strategies for ensuring safe drinking water for all, assessing trends and disparities in nationwide water quality, and decision support for water resource management. Her professional experience spans the public and private sectors.

Richard Avramenko PhD, Georgetown University

Avramenko is the director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership and the editor-in-chief of the Political Science Reviewer. He is the author of “Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb,” and the co-editor of “Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought” (2008), “Dostoevsky’s Political Philosophy” (2013), “Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times” (2018), “Canadian Conservative Political Thought” (2022), and “Aristocratic Voices: Traditional Alternatives to Liberalism, Populism and Radical Egalitarianism” (2024).

Wai Allen PhD, Purdue University

Allen joins the School of Earth and Space Exploration as an assistant professor. Her research uses the record of ancient sedimentary basin deposits to understand Earth surface processes such as large-scale tectonics and sediment routing over geologic time scales. Allen also studies Indigenous data governance in the geosciences with a focus on convergence research settings.

Adrián González Casanova PhD, Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)

Casanova is an associate professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Science with research focused on probability, game theory and theoretical biology. He received his doctorate from the Berlin Mathematical School and TU-Berlin. He completed a postdoc at the Weierstrass Institute and was later an assistant and associate professor at UNAM, and a Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley. His work won the Itô Prize in 2017 and the Feldman Prize in 2022. He is a member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences.

James Joshua (Josh) Coleman

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Coleman is an assistant professor in the Department of English’s English education program. Coleman uses social science and humanities-based methods to study LGBTQ+ youth literature and educator well-being. His research on teacher resistance to classroom censorship — the “Banned Childhoods” project — is funded by a National Academy of Education and Spencer postdoctoral fellowship.

Glen G. D’Souza PhD, Friedrich Schiller University (Germany)

D’Souza is an assistant professor in the Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics and the School of Molecular Sciences. He studies how bacterial interactions shape the functioning of microbiomes that are crucial for planetary health. Before ASU, he was an ETH Fellow at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland and has won the Tom Brock Award from the International Society for Microbial Ecology.

Connor Dolan PhD, Texas A&M University

Dolan, an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences, is interested in mammalian appendage regeneration. Mammals display poor regenerative capabilities and typically respond to traumatic injury with fibrotic wound healing rather than regeneration. Although limited, mice and humans can successfully regenerate the distal tip of their digits following amputation. The Dolan lab studies this response, and subsequently applies the findings to develop pro-regenerative therapies for nonregenerative appendage injuries.

Justin D. Earley PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

Earley is a physical chemist and assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences. His research focuses on quantum information chemistry with an emphasis on cutting-edge spectroscopic development and measurements. With a background in multidimensional spectroscopy, microwave spectroscopy and dual comb spectroscopy, Earley is passionate about pushing the boundaries of molecular qubits, particularly for quantum sensing.

Stella Fillmore-Patrick PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Fillmore-Patrick is an assistant professor of philosophy in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. She works on topics in the philosophy of statistics, probability and formal epistemology. She is also interested in AI, particularly the differences between machine learning and traditional statistical methods. She earned her bachelor’s degree at St. John’s College in Annapolis, her master’s degree in statistics and doctorate in philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin.

Nicola Garofalo PhD, University of Minnesota

Professor Garofalo’s research interests in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences are in theoretical mathematics, with special emphasis in analysis and geometry. She has authored (and coauthored) more than 150 papers, and held faculty positions at the University of Padova, University of Bologna, Northwestern University and Purdue University. Garofalo’s work has been funded uninterruptedly by the National Science Foundation for 23 years, by the University of Padova and by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research.

Rebecca Fisher PhD, Yale University

Fisher is a professor in the School of Life Sciences and the director of anatomy in the new ASU medical school, the School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering. She studies the functional anatomy of animals and the design of bio-inspired robots. She is the recipient of 10 teaching awards, and investigates the use of artificial intelligence, XR and other emerging technologies in medical education.

Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki

PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Grochocki is an assistant professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures. She holds a doctorate in classics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research investigates the portrayal of minoritized individuals (such as women and freed persons) and natural pleasant spaces in Latin poetry, focusing on poems excluded from the literary canon and how they create the possibility for new subjectivities in antiquity and modern times.

Matthew Jones

PhD, University of Kansas

Jones’ research in the School of Life Sciences entails the origins and diversification of mammals during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs (~66–34 million years ago). He studies small, insectivorous mammal fossils to understand the origins of various lineages of living mammals, with a special focus on the origin and early evolution of bats. His research includes fieldwork and work in existing paleontological collections and incorporates both comparative anatomy and phylogenetic methods to address these questions.

Ashley Keiser

PhD, University of Michigan

Keiser is an assistant professor at the Biodesign ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center and School of Life Sciences. Her research examines molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that mediate learning and memory in the adult, aging and Alzheimer’s female and male brain. She hopes that her work will provide insight into treatments for disorders impacting memory, many of which afflict women at a higher rate compared to men.

Jessica Katzenstein PhD, Brown University

Katzenstein is an assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation, and a cultural anthropologist working at the intersections of American studies, critical race studies and political anthropology. Her current book project ethnographically traces how U.S. police translate and resist reform efforts and thereby foreclose reforms’ promised futures. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Center for Engaged Scholarship.

Olga Kellert PhD, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

Having a doctorate in Romance linguistics and a strong background in natural language processing and geospatial analytics, Kellert focuses her research on using crowdsourced data, natural language processing and spatial analysis to answer fundamental linguistic questions and address pressing societal problems. She is an associate professor of linguistics in the School of International Letters and Cultures.

Kristen Kennedy Terry PhD, University of California, Davis

Kennedy Terry is an assistant professor of French in the School of International Letters and Cultures. Her research focuses on the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, specifically the role of social networks in the acquisition of variable language forms during study abroad. She published her first monograph, “Social Networks in Second Language Research: Theory and Methods,” in the Routledge Second Language Acquisition Research Series in March 2024.

Méadhbh McIvor PhD, London School of Economics (United Kingdom)

McIvor is an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. She is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on the legal regulation of religion in Europe and the U.S. She is interested in the state’s shaping of, response to and interaction with religious practice, which she has explored through fieldwork with conservative evangelicals in England and Unitarian Universalists in Arizona. She joins ASU from the University of Manchester.

Nicholas H. Matlis

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Capitalizing on more than two decades of international experience in the national-lab setting developing high-power lasers and advanced accelerators, Matlis’ research program concentrates on applying advanced sources of photons and electrons to elucidate nonlinear quantum and structural dynamics of matter on atomic scales of time and space. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physics.

Sujoy Mukhopadhyay PhD, California Institute of Technology

Mukhopadhyay joins the School of Earth and Space Exploration as a professor, having previously served in the same position at the University of California, Davis. His research group works on understanding the formation and evolution of habitable planets, including the formation of the atmosphere and linkages between processes operating within the deep interior and the planet’s surface.

Tomide Oloruntobi

PhD, University of New Mexico

Oloruntobi is an assistant professor of intercultural communication at Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. A recipient of many intercultural and international communication disciplinary awards, he examines globalization, cultural politics of taste, platformization and political economy in postcolonial Nigerian visual cultures. His interdisciplinary works are widely published on topics such as identity, cross-cultural adaptation, embodiment, mis- and disinformation, intergroup communication, and group vitality. His current research focuses on the narrative and perceptual shifts informed by the mainstreaming of African media products, specifically Afrobeats, and their implications for global Black relationalities.

Derek Pacheco

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Pacheco is an associate professor in the Department of English’s literature program, having joined the department from Purdue University. His research specializes in antebellum American literature, romanticism and children’s literature. He is the author of “Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America” (Ohio State University Press, 2013) and he also publishes regularly on Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Lindsay Oluyede

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Oluyede is an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. She unearths diverse perspectives on what and how we can learn from lived experiences to improve transportation equity. Her recent research interests include transportation barriers to accessing health care and innovative public involvement. Before pursuing her doctorate, she worked in the nonprofit and private sectors, including positions at American Rivers, Rails-toTrails Conservancy and the consulting firm ICF.

Ian Shane Peebles

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Peebles is an assistant professor of philosophy in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate in bioethics at Princeton University. His research interests include topics related to race, racism and their relationships to health, medicine and emerging biotechnologies. Additionally, he is interested in how moral philosophy might influence investigation into contemporary social issues typically monopolized by political philosophy.

Manushag (Nush) Powell

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Powell, a literary historian and public scholar most recently at Purdue University, is a professor and chair of the Department of English. Powell studies 18th-century British literature and culture, including publishing, women’s periodicals and piracy narratives. She is author or editor of four books and of the Wondrium “The Real History of Pirates” course. Her essay on pirates and hook prosthetics recently appeared in the Digital Defoe journal.

Christian Ravela PhD, University of Washington

Ravela is an assistant professor in the Department of English’s literature program, having formerly been director of the humanities and cultural studies program at the University of Central Florida. He specializes in 20th-century U.S. multiethnic literature, comparative ethnic studies and critical theory, and is at work on the monograph, “Interethnic Worldliness: Multiethnic Bildungsromans and the Negative Dialectic of Race.”

Eduardo Ramos PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Ramos is an assistant professor in the Department of English’s literature program. Previously a postdoctoral research scholar at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, he specializes in medieval English and Icelandic literature with a focus on cross-cultural contact and depictions of race. Ramos’s work has appeared in the journals Speculum, Literature Compass, Postmedieval and Comitatus, and the collection “What is North?” (Brepols, 2020).

Angela Rounsaville

PhD, University of Washington

Rounsaville is an associate professor in the Department of English’s writing, rhetorics and literacies program. Having previously been at the University of Central Florida, where she served as director of their award-winning writing program, Rounsaville is a literacy researcher who explores writers and writing conditions in the swirl of globalization and transnational movements. She is the co-author of “Writing Knowledge Transfer: Theory, Research, Pedagogy” (Parlor Press, 2023).

Jed Samer PhD, University of Southern California

Samer is an associate professor in the Department of English’s film and media studies program. Also a remix artist and documentary filmmaker, Samer is a cultural studies scholar of feminist, queer and trans media. They are the author of “Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s” (Duke University Press, 2022) and co-editor of “Su Friedrich: Interviews” (University Press of Mississippi, 2022).

Sarah Stewart PhD, California Institute of Technology

Stewart is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration. She studies the formation and evolution of planetary bodies and the properties of planetary materials using shock wave techniques and numerical simulations. Stewart is a MacArthur Fellow and was previously a professor at University of California, Davis, and Harvard University in Earth and planetary sciences.

Nichea Spillane

PhD,

University of Kentucky

Spillane is a professor in the Department of Psychology who researches substance use-related health disparities in underserved communities, especially among Indigenous populations in North America, including American Indians and First Nations. She emphasizes health equity and collaborates with Indigenous communities through equal partnerships to develop fair and effective solutions to these disparities.

Sami G. Tantawi

PhD, University of Maryland

Professor Tantawi is in the Department of Physics and researcher with the Biodesign Institute and ASU CXFEL Labs. Before coming to ASU, he was a professor at Stanford University’s Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department. He has been the chief scientist for RF Accelerator Technology Research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He led a world-class research effort on RF linacs and associated RF systems. He won the prize of Achievements in Accelerator Physics and Technology from the U.S. Particle Accelerator School and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Tyson Terry

PhD, Utah State University

Terry is an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences and the School of Sustainability. With a research focus on factors that promote the successful reproduction and maintenance of dryland plant communities, Tyson uses various techniques such as experiments, big data, remote sensing and physiological models to understand how abiotic conditions interact with disturbance, invasion and reproductive requirements to shape ecosystems.

Levin Elias Welch

PhD, University of California, Riverside

Welch is an assistant professor of sociology at the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, specializing in political economy, global social change, Indigenous studies, time and racism. Welch currently investigates how the persistence of Indigenous lifeways and peoplehood since Euro-American colonization affects political economy by analyzing and comparing published understandings of history from the Nimiipuu, Nez Perce and their neighbors.

Cornesha Tweede PhD, University of Oregon

Tweede is an incoming assistant professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures. She received her doctorate in Romance languages with a specialization in African studies from the University of Oregon. She is an affiliate of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies where she was a Mellon postdoctoral research fellow. Her research focuses on Blackness, race, gender and the place of Africa in early modern cultural studies. She is currently working on a project that examines literary depictions of Black African women in early modern Spain and Portugal.

Sa Whitley

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Whitley is an assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation and co-director of Queer X Humanities, an initiative at the ASU Humanities Institute. They hold a doctorate in gender studies from University of California, Los Angeles, and their research examines contemporary Black queer housing- and economic-justice movements. Whitley is the winner of the 2024 Indiana Review Poetry Prize, and their recent writing appears in POETRY Magazine and Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Deborah Wu

PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Wu is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. She studies how social identities and emotions shape our experiences, attitudes and behaviors. Specifically, her research examines interventions that mitigate the negative effects of stereotypes, identifies situational contexts that impact intergroup perceptions, and tests how different emotions have distinct impacts on our attitudes and behaviors.

Mouzhe Xie

PhD,

The Ohio State University

Xie is an assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences. His research is focused on developing quantum sensing technologies and applying them to study molecular analytics and biophysics. By taking multidisciplinary approaches, he endeavors to understand the structure, dynamics and functionality of important biomolecules with an end goal of improving human health.

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Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation

In 1957, ASU launched the School of Nursing with 58 students enrolled. Today, the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation provides a first-class education for more than 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students with a focus on preparing the next generation of health professionals, researchers and leaders. A $25 million gift from the Edson family in 2018 enabled Edson College to accelerate its scholarship and productivity in the science of resilient aging, cognition, dementia and family caregiving, and complement outreach initiatives in use-inspired and community-based research.

The academic programs at Edson College place a premium on delivery and positive impact. Whether through preparation of nurses, nurse practitioners, community-focused health professionals, health entrepreneurs and innovators, or clinical research managers, Edson College is continually working through partnerships to meet current and future health demands locally and globally.

College highlights

In the last three years, Edson College has graduated 1,200+ new nurses and more than 180 nurse practitioners, significantly improving access to care and contributing to overall positive health care outcomes.

The graduate program in clinical research management sets the standard for real-world industry partnerships that produce impact.

The range of baccalaureate health majors in the college provides the pathway for learners to fill the interstitial spaces that have become necessary as part of health care evolution.

students enrolled 7,000

Alice Cepeda

PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center

Cepeda is a professor and sociologist. Her research focuses on the etiology of drug use disparities across multiple socio-ecological domains to promote social, economic and health equity. Cepeda documents the complex socio-ecological determinants informing community-based interventions that are age-graded and culturally tailored to minoritized populations.

Chad E. Forbes

PhD,

The

University of Arizona

Forbes is a social neuroscientist and associate professor. His research broadly examines the dynamic modulation of identity as a function of biology, memory, emotion and health disparities. Specifically, he examines how these processes are adversely biased in response to experiences of subtle or explicit social prejudices, or fortified by social and cultural support, to influence stigmatized individuals’ physical and mental health accordingly.

Hanne Dolan

PhD, The University of Arizona

Dolan is an assistant professor and registered nurse. Her research is centered around fall prevention among hospitalized older adults in rural areas. Dolan explores older adults’ perceptions and behaviors in relation to accidental falls. She uses this knowledge as a foundation for developing fall prevention interventions that support older adults’ personal balance management efforts and that are acceptable and feasible in rural hospitals.

Eyitayo Owolabi

PhD, University of Fort Hare (South Africa)

Owolabi is an assistant professor, nurse and midwife, and an enthusiastic nurse scientist. She earned her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. Her primary research interests include chronic disease prevention and management, precisely about efforts aimed at reducing Type 2 diabetes risk, improving access to quality diabetes care, and designing interventions that leverage digital health technologies to improve diabetes self-management behaviors and outcomes for underserved populations.

Heather Ross PhD, Arizona State University

Ross is an assistant professor whose teaching and research centers on health equity and policy. She leads research in dementia and homelessness, crisis mental health response, digital health equity, and directs the SolarSPELL Health global library initiative. Ross maintains clinical practice as a nurse practitioner in cardiac electrophysiology and serves in leadership roles in multiple state, national and international organizations.

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Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

The Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions is committed to fearlessly taking on the most daunting challenges facing society, with nationally ranked degree programs, internationally recognized faculty and practically applied research that addresses issues facing communities both locally and globally.

Our four schools — School of Community Resources and Development, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Public Affairs, and School of Social Work — bring inclusion, creativity, systems-level thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit to our mission of creating more vibrant, healthy, equitable and sustainable communities.

College highlights

$30+ million in externally funded research in 2024

90% retention rate of faculty

No. 2 for best graduate criminology and criminal justice programs, ahead of University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida and Michigan State University — U.S. News & World Report, 2022

No. 13 for best graduate public affairs programs, ahead of The Ohio State University, Texas A&M University and University of Virginia — U.S. News & World Report, 2024

students enrolled 7,702 faculty members

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Cynthia Lietz

Vice Provost, Dean and President’s Professor, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

“It is a true honor to lead one of the largest, highly ranked comprehensive colleges of public service in the nation. Our faculty conduct rigorous, useinspired research that informs policy and practice. Considering the importance of their work, they are securing external funding from the most competitive mechanisms at a rate never before seen in the history of the Watts College, and they continue to win prestigious awards. They are truly making a difference.”

Roni Fraser

PhD, University of Delaware

Fraser is an assistant professor at the School of Public Affairs and an affiliate of the ASU Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security. Her research focuses on disaster response and recovery through an all-hazards lens, with a special emphasis on maternal-infant health during crises and the mental health and well-being of disaster volunteers.

Jiho Kim

PhD, Syracuse University

Kim is an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs. His research interests include collaborative governance, diversity, equity and inclusion values, democracy and public administration, intergovernmental relations, local government, and citizen participation. He examines how collaborative, deliberative and participatory modes of governance affect various public values such as diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, sustainability, adaptation, transparency and accountability.

Álvaro Hofflinger

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Hofflinger is an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs. He holds a doctorate in public policy from The University of Texas at Austin. Hofflinger is affiliated with the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidad de la Frontera, Chile, and in 2023–2024 was a visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. His research interests are linked to his background and how market-based reforms impact rural communities.

James E. Wright II PhD, American University

Wright II is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice where his research specializes in race, justice, equity, policing and organizational management. His research has examined the impacts of body cameras on racial disparities in policing, the impacts of providing public access to police misconduct allegations, police officer decision-making during police stops, how physical appearance impacts use of force, and community protests, among other issues.

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Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation

Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation creates knowledge, mobilizes people and takes action to improve education. It is one of few colleges of education committed to both world-class educator preparation and world-class scholarship.

Our faculty members create knowledge by drawing from a wide range of academic disciplines to gain insight into important questions about the process of learning, the practice of teaching and the effects of education policy. We mobilize people through bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs; through nondegree professional development programs; and through socially embedded, multilateral community engagement. We take action by bringing people and ideas together to increase the capabilities of individual educators and improve the performance of education systems.

College highlights

No. 2 in education research expenditures

— U.S. News & World Report survey of U.S. graduate schools of education, 2024

No. 7 in best online master’s in education programs

— U.S. News & World Report, 2024

Seven National Academy of Education and Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships, which support early-career scholars, awarded to faculty since 2015.

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Carole G. Basile

Dean and Professor, Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation

“We are a community of learners, thinkers and doers committed to developing people and ideas that make education systems work better for learners, educators and communities. We prioritize structural change over isolated programs, projects and activities. We seek to address national and global challenges in education. We are creating multiple pathways for people to enter and advance in the field of education. We aspire to bring people, ideas and technology together to build the future of teaching and learning and to secure a place for learning at the center of civic life.”

Pablo Bezem

PhD, Michigan State University

Bezem is an assistant professor of education policy. His research focuses on governance in K–12 education. He is especially interested in how local government support and accountability can enable organizational change in schools, influence the dynamics between school leadership and districts, and impact accessibility, equity and student performance. He has more than a decade of experience conducting research in the U.S. and internationally, forging collaborative partnerships with schools, communities and policymakers.

Kathleen King Thorius

PhD, Arizona State University

Thorius is professor and director of Learning Futures Collaboratives. Thorius is a critical special education scholar who develops and facilitates cultural historical approaches to teacher learning toward the goal of inclusive education as an intersectional education justice movement. She is editor of Exceptional Children, the flagship special education journal of the Council for Exceptional Children. Thorius founded the Great Lakes Equity Center where she led partnerships with hundreds of education agencies as the center’s executive director for 14 years.

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ASU Charter

ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.

New American University

Arizona State University has become the foundational model for the New American University, a new paradigm for the public research university that transforms higher education. ASU is committed to excellence, access and impact in everything that it does.

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The design of this book is based on the architectural shapes found atop ASU’s Hayden Library. Built in 1966, an architectural feature of the library is the “beacon of knowledge” monument that serves as a historic centerpiece of ASU’s Tempe campus. Each evening “the beacon of knowledge” emits the light from the library below, signaling the knowledge it houses — nearly five million books.

Like this structure, ASU’s excellence is centered on the knowledge that is transmitted from our talented faculty to all ASU students across generations. As a community of scholars, our role is to shed light on new ways of thinking, and to advance knowledge that inspires all at ASU to deepen our understanding of — and commitment to — the betterment of ourselves, our fellow human beings, our communities and the world we share.