Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

Name Expertise areas Short Bio Updated date
Robert Weigand Children - Teens - Families, Human Development Weigand's research focuses on teaching activities emphasizing child development and early intervention.
Joel Tharseo
Patricia Gober Geography, Planning, Food, Water, and Energy Nexus, Sustainability, Urban Design and Sustainable Cities, Urban Planning Gober is the founding co-director of the National Science Foundation's Decision Center for a Desert City and previously served on the National Research Council's Committee on Geographical Sciences.
Tong Wu
Jaslin Rubio
Devens Gust Energy and Sustainability, Organic Chemistry, Photosynthesis Regents Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Devens Gust has research and teaching interests in aspects of organic chemistry including artificial photosynthetic solar energy conversion and others.
Kevin Abke
Robert Spring Music, Woodwind Instruments Spring is also a guest professor at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. He is a Henri Selmer Paris Artist and performances on the Privilège clarinet.
Carl Yamashiro Applied Research, Biomarker Discovery for Personalized Diagnosis, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Genetics, Genomics, Innovation and Success, Molecular Biology Yamashiro is an Associate Clinical Professor and Program Coordinator for the MS Biomedical Diagnostics program. He researches technology assessment and development in the healthcare field with a core strength in diagnostics.
Norman Dubie Dubie was the author of more than 20 books. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages. His collection, "The Quotations of Bone," won the 2016 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Paul Schmidtke Schmidtke earned his doctorate in astronomy at The Ohio State University. He has worked for Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson and the Center of High-Angular Resolution Astronomy at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
William Brewer
Meredith Savvides
Manuel Hernandez Spanish, English and Chicano and Latino Studies Hernández-G. received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. At ASU, he has directed dissertations in Chicano/a letters and culture, and lectured in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Katharine Lawther
Sylvain Gallais French Gallais' research areas include economic analysis of institutions; new institutional economics; environment, pollution, market solutions; public choice; Austrian economics; public policy.
Virginia Livingston Virginia Livingston is a clinical instructor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Her research interests include chronic illness, movement therapies and support groups, and alternative health.
Timothy O'Grady Tim Porter–O’Grady's research interests include magnet effectiveness, shared governance, leader effectiveness, complex adpative systems, innovation, and primary care policy.
Maia Porras
Christopher Corral
Thomas Davis History, Law, Public Policy As an historian and lawyer, Davis focuses on civil rights, employment, and property law, and particularly on constitutional issues of race and identity.
John Hepburn Hepburn has extensive research experience on contemporary issues of corrections.
Craig Lecroy LeCroy's areas of expertise include home visitation, evaluation of social work interventions, and child and adolescent treatment.
Elizabeth Segal Segal's current research centers on social empathy and how greater empathic insight can lead to the creation of more effective social welfare policies and programs.
Olga Davis Communication Davis is Associate Dean of Barrett, The Honors College, and researcher of health disparities, community-based participatory research, social determinants of health, performance studies, and critical cultural studies.
Ethan Kapstein Governance, Econometrics, Public Finance Kapstein is an Arizona Centennial Professor of International Affairs and senior director for research at the McCain Institute for International Leadership in Washington D.C
Mary-Ellen Brown Health Equity, Prevention and Intervention Science, Resilience, Social Determinants of Health Brown's scholarship focuses on the effects of poverty and violence as related to the resiliency, health and well-being of underserved communities, including African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, and urban Native Americans.
Gia Han Lu
Yankun Huang
Lawrence Carroll
Timothy Lindquist Lindquist joined ASU in 1985. His areas of expertise include mobile computing, distributed applications and software engineering.
Garrett Kolling
Jennifer Harvey
Susan Pepin
Richard Ruedemann Ruedemann has been teaching at ASU since 1993. He has taught almost all first and second-year math classes, especially the Calculus and Engineering Calculus sequences.
Richard Gerkin Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Informatics, Mathematical Biology, Modeling, Neurobiology, Physiology, Software Engineering, Statistics Gerkin investigates how smell perception, learning and behavior are represented in the brain. He also pursues neuroinformatics, development of tools and standards to facilitate analysis of neuroscience models and data.
Himanshu Dave
William Badger Badger has served as professor in the Del E. Webb School of Construction for 25 years, including 17 years as the school’s director.
Gary Cabirac
Craig Thatcher Nutrition, Veterinary Craig D. Thatcher's research interest is in the area of comparative nutrition and the role of antioxidant nutrients in health and disease, particularly as it relates to obesity and insulin resistance.
Andrew Kirby Urban Development, Bibliometrics Kirby is emeritus professor of social and behavioral science and an editor for the *Journal of Urban Affairs* and *Publications*.
Donald Homa Learning and Memory, Psychology Homa's research interests include the visual perception of linguistic and form stimuli; retrieval and decision processes in long- and short-term memory; and semantic memory.
Gary Anders
Claudia Browning Ms. Browning teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at Arizona State University in multiple modalities including Face-to-Face classes, Internet classes, and Hybrid classes.
Frankie Sullivan Education, Education Development, Educator Professional Development, Math, Mathematics Education, Secondary Education, Teaching and Teacher Education Sullivan has worked as a high school mathematics teacher, college mathematics instructor, and professional development presenter for K-12 mathematics educators.
Robert St Louis Forecast Evaluation, Enterprise Document Management, Management Control Systems, Decision Making Robert St. Louis teaches classes on information management, and conducts research in the areas of document search, management control systems, and evidence-based decision making.
Thomas Smith
Yunpeng Zhao Big Data, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Science, Statistics Zhao's primary research interest includes machine learning methodology and theory in network analysis with applications in biology and the social sciences.
Kurt VanLehn VanLehn research interests in applications of AI to education (Intelligent Tutoring Systems; teachable agents; tutorial NL dialogue systems); human learning (student modeling; cognitive modeling); and cognitive science.
Carole Greenes Carole Greenes is professor of mathematics education. Her expertise includes math (algebra), math education, applications of math in STEM, math and special education, and math and early childhood education.