Research Faculty

Jill Castek

Professor of Literacy, Technology & Bi/multilingual Learners & STEM Education
Professor, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching
Affiliate Faculty, Center Middle Eastern Studies, Center of East Asian Studies and Center for Latin American Studies

Diana Daly

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Student Success
Associate Professor of Practice
  • Social media
  • Digital Culture
  • Qualitative research methods

Yan Han

Adjunct Lecturer
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  • Data Science
  • Metadata (XMP)

Bryan Heidorn

Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Academic Affairs
Professor
Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies
  • Text mining
  • Data curation
  • Biodiversity informatics

Alan Kang

Ph.D. Student
  • Knowledge Management
  • Talent Management
  • Workforce Development

Berlin Loa

Assistant Professor of Practice
Knowledge River Program Manager
  • Museums and archives
  • Collections management
  • Taskscapes of cultural heritage & public memory

Cristian Román Palacios

Assistant Professor
Coordinator and Advisor for M.S. Data Science and M.S. Information Science
  • Phylogenetics and biodiversity drivers
  • Paleoclimatic reconstructions and climate change
  • Applied data mining and machine learning

Marvin Slepian

Regents' Professor
Director - ACABI, Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation
Professor, Medicine (Tenured)
Clinical Professor, Biomedical Engineering (Non-Tenure Eligible)
Associate Department Head, Clinical / Industrial Affairs
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (Non-Tenure Eligible)
Professor, Medical Imaging (Non-Tenure Eligible)
Professor, BIO5 Institute (Non-Tenure Eligible)
Law - James E. Rogers College of Law - Law