Dr. Venkat Allada
Professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research interests: lean management; systems thinking; product design and development.
Dr. Casey Canfield
Assistant professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research interests: socio-technical systems; broadband; energy; participatory research; infrastructure transitions; human-machine teams.
Dr. Ryan Cheek
Assistant professor, English and Technical Communication
Research interests: political communication technologies; feminist and queer rhetorical theory; apocalyptic technical communications and rhetoric; public speaking and civic advocacy.
Dr. Carleigh Davis
Assistant professor, English and Technical Communication
Research interests: technical and scientific communication pedagogy; rhetorics of technology; the spread of fake news, junk science, and modern conspiracies through social media.
Dr. Fateme Fayyazbakhsh
Assistant research professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: smart biomaterials; biofabrication; wound healing; medical device commercialization.
Dr. Alanna Krolikowski
Assistant professor, History and Political Science
Research interests: international relations; policy for science, technology and innovation; comparative politics; U.S.-China relations; China’s foreign relations.
Dr. Melody Lo
Steinmeyer Memorial Endowed Chair of Economics
Research interests: financial economics; global economics and financial policy making; economic stylized behavioral patterns identification; macroeconomics.
Dr. Heath Pickerill
Director, Missouri Local Training and Resource Center, and assistant teaching professor, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Research interests: workforce development training and resources for public agencies; community resilience; infrastructure management and maintenance; energy efficiency and green technologies.
Dr. Joan Schuman
Associate teaching professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Research interests: engineering education; project management; cultural competency.
Dr. Daniel Shank
Associate professor, Psychological Science
Research interests: Social psychology; artificial intelligence; human computer interaction; moral psychology.
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard
Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and professor of history and political science
Research interests: history of science; Egyptology; STS; archaeology; gender studies; biography; history of travel and tourism.
Dr. Donald C. Wunsch II
Director, Kummer Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, and Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor of Computer Engineering
Research interests: clustering; neural networks; reinforcement learning; approximate dynamic programming; adaptive dynamic programming.