Faculty

The Hon. James E. Baker

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Director, Institute for Security Policy and Law

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor, Law, College of Law

J.D., Yale Law School, 1990

Jaime Banks

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies

Ph.D., Colorado State University

Peter Blanck

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

University Professor, College of Law

Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute (BBI)

J.D., Stanford University, 1986

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982

Areas of Expertise

Race, ethnicity and disability; disability and law; disability and social policy

Gail Bulman

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor and Chair, Spanish, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Latin American theater in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Puerto Rico

Carlos Enrique Caicedo Bastidas

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

EunJeong Cheon

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies

Kevin Crowston

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Dean for Research, iSchool

Distinguished Professor of Information Science, iSchool

Ph.D., Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hamid Ekbia

University Professor, Maxwell School

Director, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2003

Areas of Expertise

Political economy of computing, artificial intelligence, global development

Ingrid Erickson

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Assistant Professor, iSchool

Ph.D., Center for Work, Technology, and Organization in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Organizational studies, information science and human-centered computing, science and technology studies, future of work/work in the age of intelligent machines

Zhenyu Gan

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Brian Gerling

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Executive Director, Innovation Law Center

Shubha Ghosh

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Crandall Melvin Professor of Law, College of Law

Director, Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute

J.D., with distinction, Stanford Law School, 1994

Stefano Giannini

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Advisory Board Member Associate Professor, Italian, Center for European Studies

Associate Professor, Italian, College of Arts and Science

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2002

Lauryn Gouldin

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Director, Syracuse Civics Initiative

LaVerne Gray

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies

Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004

Rania Habib

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Program Coordinator and Associate Professor, Arabic, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., University of Florida, 2008

Johannes Himmelreich — (Pronouns: He, Him)

Johannes Himmelreich

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2016

Areas of Expertise

Applied ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of public policy, ethics of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems

Josh Hunt

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Michigan

Garrett Katz

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2017

Areas of Expertise

Neural computation, cognitive robotics, dynamical systems

Krista Kennedy

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Professor, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Rhetorics of technology, algorithmic rhetorics, disability studies, intellectual property, data surveillance

Bess Krietemeyer

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Professor, School of Architecture

Faculty Research Fellow, Syracuse Center for Excellence (COE)

Ph.D., RPI Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, 2013

Areas of Expertise

Advanced building technologies, interactive visualization tools, human and energy feedback systems in the design of sustainable built environments

Delali Kumavie

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990

Areas of Expertise

Modern American society, culture, thought; cultural criticism; intellectual history; history of ideas, self, emotion, art of living, ancient and modern; therapeutic culture, civil society, community, race, family; contemplative learning

Yiqi Li

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies

Mark Linder

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor, School of Architecture

Ph.D., Princeton University

Anparasan Mahlingham

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor of Management, Whitman School of Management

Ph.D., Purdue University

Lee W,. McKnight

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tina Nabatchi

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration

Director and Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Ph.D., School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Public management, policy and law; public participation; collaborative governance; conflict resolution

Carsten Oesterlund

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor, iSchool

Ph.D., MIT Sloan School of Management, 2003

Sean O'Keefe

University Professor

Phanstiel Chair in Leadership

Distinguished Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

M.P.A., Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1978

Areas of Expertise

Public management, national security policy and strategy, public finance and public budgeting, financial management, technology development and innovation management, executive leadership

Beth Patin

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies

Ph.D., University of Washington

Qinru Qiu

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Jane M. Read

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Director, Integrated Learning Major, Environment, Sustainability and Policy

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Geographic information systems and remote sensing, human-environment interactions, geohumanities, indigenous livelihoods, Latin America

Bahram Salehi

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, SUNY ESF

Steve Sawyer

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor and Core Faculty, Renée Crown Honors Program, iSchool

D.B.A., Boston University, 1995

Rebecca Schewe

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2011

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and natural resource sociology

Danielle Taana Smith

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program

Professor, African American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia

Areas of Expertise

Gender studies, population displacement and migration, post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction, global health and development, Africa and its diaspora, the United States

Sucheta Soundarajan

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Design and Governance

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science

CISE Doctoral Program Coordinator

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2013

Areas of Expertise

Data mining, social network analysis, community detection, applications to social and life sciences

Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor, School of Information Studies

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2002

Areas of Expertise

Digital politics, e-government, online deliberation, influence and leadership in social media, decision-making and behavior in games.

Jasmina Tacheva

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Assistant Professor, iSchool

Ph.D., University at Buffalo’s (UB) School of Management

M. Emma Ticio Quesada

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Chair and Professor, Spanish and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs

Daniel Traficonte

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Associate Professor of Law, College of Law

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David M. Van Slyke

Dean, Maxwell School

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Ph.D., Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York at Albany, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Public and nonprofit management, government contracting, public-private partnerships, policy implementation, strategic management

Senem Velipasalar

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Wireless embedded smart cameras, distributed multi-camera tracking and surveillance systems, automatic event detection from videos, pattern recognition and signal processing

Janet M. Wilmoth

Professor, Sociology Department

Director, Aging Studies Institute

Dissemination Core Lead, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995

Areas of Expertise

Sociology of aging and the life course, demography, health

Jamie Winders

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Syracuse University

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2004

Areas of Expertise

Autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, international migration, race/ethnicity, gender, cultural and social geography, social theory, social reproduction, feminist geography, qualitative methods, digital geographies