Department of Technology, AI and Society Faculty
Core Faculty
Donghee Yvette Wohn, PhD
Professor and Chair
PhD, Media and Information Studies Michigan State University; Content moderation and online harassment in online communities; digital patronage, online self-presentation and identity; user-generate AI content on social media.
Elizabeth Hewitt, PhD
Associate Professor
PhD, Rutgers University; Building occupant behavior; social science and behavioral energy research; organizational energy issues; green building design and technology; environmental economics.
Todd L. Pittinsky, PhD
Professor
PhD, Harvard University; Models intergroup relations in their ecosystems of society, technology, and policy.
Lori Scarlatos
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director
PhD, Stony Brook University; Educational technology; tangible, physical; multi-modal; and collaborative human-computer interfaces; serious games; computer graphics; multimedia.
Jieshu Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD, Arizona State University; Exploring the human and social dimensions of AI: the future of work, sustainability, equality and inclusion in AI development, and our collective imaginaries of the future.
Thomas S. Woodson, PhD
Associate Professor
PhD, Georgia Tech; Innovation Systems; bibliometrics; science and technology policy; international development.
Ben Z. Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Michigan; Human-computer interaction (HCI); Human-Centered AI; Responsible AI; Social Computing; Science, Technology, and Society (STS); Global Development.
Teaching Faculty
Daniene Bryne, PhD
Assistant Professor of Practice
PhD and MAPP, Stony Brook University; Technological Design and Development; Cybernetic Learning and Teaching; Visual Rhetoric; AI Policy Challenges
Kevin Moriarty, PhD
Professor of Practice, Undergraduate Program Director
PhD, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Executive leadership; technical management; quantitative methods; engineering economic principles & concepts.
Lazlo Stepback, PhD
Assistant Professor of Practice
PhD, Purdue University, Engineering Education; His research focuses on engineering students' and early-career engineers' perceptions and experience with engineering ethics and the relationship between personal morality and engineering ethics.
Yan Xiao, PhD
Assistant Professor of Practice
PhD, The Ohio State University; Public policy: art, culture, and technology.