Affiliated Faculty and Partners – Public Interest Technology Initiative

affiliated faculty and partners

The PIT@UMass community includes a large group of faculty from diverse UMass Schools and Colleges whose research and teaching integrates social responsibility with interdisciplinary and domain challenges. Their efforts build skills and expertise for a next-generation workforce, advance research that addresses social challenges, and are critical to the success of PIT@UMass.

College of Education

College of Engineering

College of Humanities & Fine Arts

College of Natural Sciences

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Elaine Marieb College of Nursing

Isenberg School of Management

Manning College of Computer and Information Sciences

School of Earth and Sustainability

School of Public Health and Health Sciences

College of Education

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College of Engineering

Erin Baker, Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Faculty Director, Energy Transition Institute

Jessica Boakye, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow \ Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering — Jessica Boakye, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Muge Capan, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Ai Chengbo, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Song Goo, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering — Song Gao, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chaitra Gopalappa, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Paula Rees, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Shannon Roberts, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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College of Humanities & Fine Arts

Hallie Bahn, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor, Department of Art

Laura Doyle, Professor of English

Kirsten Leng, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

Lucia Miller — Lucia Miller, Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives

Aston K. McCullough, Assistant Professor of Dance Science

Jeffery Kasper, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in Department of Art

Sarah Patterson, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor, Department of English

Anthony Tuck, Professor of Classics, Department Chair and Chair, Languages, Literatures & Cultures

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College of Natural Sciences

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College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Photo of Jane Fountain — Jane Fountain, Distinguished Professor and Director, School of Pubilc Policy

Sanjiv Gupta, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Professor

Jennifer Lundquist, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Dean of Faculty Development

Thad Miller, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of Graduate Studies

R. Karl Rethemeyer, Dean

Meredith Rolfe, Director of Data Analytics and Computational Social Science, Associate Professor of Political Science — Meredith Rolfe, Associate Professor of Political Science

Jamie Rowen, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Kelsey Shoub, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Laurel Smith-Doerr, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow, Professor of Sociology

Lucy Xiaolu Wang, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor, Department of Resource Economics

Jonathan Wynn, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Professor and Department Chair

Youngmin Yi, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor

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Elaine Marieb College of Nursing

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Isenberg School of Management

Charlie Johnson, Clinical Associate Professor & Associate Director of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship

Anne P. Massey, Dean and Thomas O'Brien Endowed Chair Operations & Information Management — Anne P. Massey, Dean and Thomas O’Brien Endowed Chair Operations & Information Management

Bogdan Prokopovych, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Senior Lecturer Management

Senay Solak, John F. Smith Memorial Professor and Department Chair Operations & Information Management

Monideepa Taraftar, Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor and PhD Coordinator in Information Systems Operations & Information Management — Monideepa Tarafdar, Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor and PhD Coordinator in Information Systems Operations & Information Management

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Manning College of Computer and Information Sciences

Ivon Arroyo, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Professor

Fran Berman, Director of the Public Interest Technology Initiative and PIT@UMass co-Founder

Przemek Grabowicz, Research Assistant Professor/EQUATE

Laura Haas, Dean

Jim Kurose, Associate Chancellor of Partnership and Innovation & Distinguished Professor

Brian Levine, Director of Cybersecurity Institute & Professor — Brian Levine, Director of Cybersecurity Institute and Professor

Narges Mahyar, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor

Siobhan Mei, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Teaching Faculty

Matthew Hale Rattigan, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Director of Research Programs

Ali Sarvghad, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Research Assistant Professor

Neena Thota, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Associate Chair of Teaching Development & Senior Teaching Faculty

Michelle Trim, 2022 PIT@UMass Fellow | Informatics Program Director & Senior Teaching Faculty

Beverly Woolf, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Research Professor

Cindy Xiong Bearfield, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor

Yair Zick, 2023 PIT@UMass Fellow | Assistant Professor

Ethan Zuckerman, Research Director and PIT@UMass co-Founder

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School of Earth and Sustainability

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School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Elena Carbone, Associate Dean for Curriculum and Academic Oversight; Professor, Department of Nutrition

Elizabeth Evans, Professor

Daniel Goldstein, Senior Lecturer in Community Health Education Practicum Coordinator of Online MPH in Public Health Practice

Susan Hankinson, Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology

Anna Maria Siega-Riz Dean, School of Public Health and Health Sciences | Professor, Departments of Nutrition and Biostatistics & Epidemiology — Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Dean, School of Public Health and Health Sciences | Professor, Departments of Nutrition and Biostatistics & Epidemiology

John Sirard, Associate Professor

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PIT Partners

Brian Baldi, Assistant Director and Senior Lecturer, Center for Teaching & Learning

Tom Bernardin, Executive Director Center for Data Science

David Biancamano, Assistant Vice President for Development and Acting Chief Development Officer

Marco Cocito-Monoc Executive Director of Foundation Relations

Angie Gregory, Associate Director, The Energy Transition Institute

Sarah Hutton, Internet of Production

Brian Krusell, CICS Director of Career & Student Development

Photo of Casey Maloney — Casey Maloney, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning

Kerry Shaw, CICS Director of Strategic Initiatives & Communication

Julie Stubbs, CICS Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships

Christine Turner, Scholarly Communications Librarian

Johan Uvin, Executive Director of UMass Donahue Institute Leadership

Loren Walker, Director, Office of Research Development

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