Faculty
Faculty

Faculty

David L. Ferguson, Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Quantitative methods; computer applications (especially intelligent tutoring systems and decision support systems); mathematics, science, and engineering education.


Here is a general overview of the faculty of the Department of Technology and Society and their research interests.

Gamal Abouelenean, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Tulane University and Suez Canal University
Civil engineering; water resources engineering; water resources engineering; hydraulics engineering; bridge hydraulics; bridge scour; numerical modeling; computer applications; GIS.
Henry Etzkowitz, Visiting Professor, Ph.D., New School for Social Research
Triple Helix (University-Industry-Government Relations), Entrepreneurial University, Innovation Policy, Women and Minorities in Science, Science-based Regional Development.
Graham Glynn, Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Ph.D., Kent State University
Integrating technology into teaching, developing course web sites and information management.
Edward Kaplan, Visiting Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Environmental systems engineering.
Herbert Lewis, Lecturer, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Applied mathematics and statistics; operations research; management science; information systems; productivity and efficiency analysis.
Thomas T Liao, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ed.D., Columbia University
Computers in education; science and technology education.
Samuel Morris, Visiting Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Environmental science; risk analysis.
Lester Paldy, Distinguished Service Professor, M.S. , Hofstra University
Nuclear arms control; science policy.
Todd L. Pittinsky , Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University
Models intergroup relations in their ecosystems of society, technology, and policy.
Sheldon Reaven, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Science and technology policy; energy and environmental problems and issues; environmental and waste management, recycling and pollution prevention; risk analysis and life-cycle analysis; nuclear, chemical, and biological threats; technology assessment; homeland security and the war on terrorism.
Lori Scarlatos, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Educational technology; tangible, physical, multi-modal, and collaborative human-computer interfaces; serious games; computer graphics; multimedia.
Karen Sobel-Lojeski, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology
Societal impact of technology on human cognition, emotion, and overall well-being; Effects of networked technologies on education and business performance drivers such as leadership, innovation, and student acheivement
Guodong Sun, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Energy and environmental policy; technology assessment; technology innovation management.
Ted Teng, Visiting Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Electrical engineering; computer science; management of information systems; electronic commerce.
David Tonjes, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Environmental management (salt marshes, mosquito control, alternative energy sources); contamination (groundwater, pesticides); monitoring (groundwater, surface water, estuaries); public policy and communication (risk assessment, environmental impact analysis, environmental justice).
Jessica Tucker, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Engineering ethics; bioethics; engineering education; chemical engineering; biomaterials.

Affiliated Faculty

Malcolm Bowman, Distinguished Service Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan
Coastal dynamics; oceanic fronts; productivity and physical processes.
Susan Brennan, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ph.D., Stanford University
Cognitive psychology; psycholinguistics; human-computer Interaction.
Clive Clayton, Leading Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., University of Surrey UK
Environmental degradation of materials; XPS; AES; dynamic and static SIMS; electrochemical analysis synthesis by ultra-fast laser ablation; RHEED; protective coatings.
Yuefan Deng, Professor, Applied Math and Statistics, Ph.D., Columbia University
Molecular dynamics; parallel computing.
Gary Halada, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Electron spectroscopy; electrochemistry; surface engineering; optical spectroscopy; environmental remediation.
Gil Hanson, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Isotope and trace elemnent geochemistry, geochronology
Lee Koppelman, Professor, D.P.A, New York University
Comprehensive regional and urban planning; environmental policy; American federalism and intergovernmental relations; regional policy analysis; coastal zone planning.
Marci Lobel, Associate Professor and Area Head, Social & Health, Department Psychology, Ph.D., UCLA
Stress, coping, and their effects on health, with an emphasis on pregnancy.
Manuel London, Associate Dean of the College of Business, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Performance management program; training and development; team learning.
Jon Longtin, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Short-pulse lasermaterial interactions; precision laser measurement techniques, microscale heat transfer.
Basil Rigas, Professor, Department of Medicine, M.D., D.Sc., Athens University, Greece
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pharmacological Sciences, Chief, Division of Cancer Prevention and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, prevention of colon cancer using traditional NSAIDs; NO-donating NSAIDs and other pharmacological agents,; application of infrared spectroscopy to biology with emphasis on cancer; nanotechnology in the prevention of cancer
Clint Rubin, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D., Bristol University, UK
Tissue adaptation; biophysical treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.
Peter Salins, Professor, Department of Political Science, Ph.D., Syracuse University
Public policy; regional planning
Warren Sanderson, Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Economics , Ph.D., Stanford University
Economic demography, labor economics, economic history.
Wolf Schafer, Professor, Department of History, Ph.D., University of Bremen, Germany
History of technoscience; social history; global history.
Thomas R. Sexton, Professor, College of Business, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Health-care delivery systems; efficiency analysis; statistics.

Keith Sheppard, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Science Education, Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Secondary school science education, chemistry and physics education.

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, Professor, College of Business, Ph.D., University of British Columbia
Management information systems; operations research; artificial intelligence.
Amanda Stent, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester
Spoken and multimodal dialogue systems; natural language generation; theories of discourse; information extraction.
Larry Swanson, Professor, Department of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D., Oregon State University
Physical oceanography of coastal waters and estuaries; ocean dumping; coastal zone management.
Wendy Tang, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Interconnection networks, parallel computing, and neural networks.
Judith Tanur, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emerita, Department of Sociology, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Statistics; methodology; survey research; and social psychology.
Gerrit Wolf, Professor, College of Business, Ph.D., Cornell University
Entrepreneurship; organizational behavior; human resource management; international management.

Emeritus Faculty

Technology & Society

Joseph S. Hogan, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., New York University
Planetary atmospheres; environmental satellites; climate change.
Emil J. Piel, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Decision making; technology- society issues; human-machine systems.
Marian Visich, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Aerospace engineering; technology - society issues.