People and Partners

The multidisciplinary Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) includes external academic and industry scholars with extensive relevant experience. The IAC’s role includes assessing outcomes, providing feedback, and offering guidance to the Executive Committee about AWARE-AI NRT operations. An annual IAC Summit takes place in late spring.

• Lorna Quandt, Gallaudet, Assistant Professor, CREST founder
• Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania, Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science
• Natalie Schluter, ITU, Associate Professor, Apple, Machine Learning Researcher
• Raja Kushalnagar, Gallaudet, Professor, Program Director of Information Technology
• Nathan Pendelton, Systems Engineer - Robotics & Automotive, Motional

The RIT administrators and faculty on the Internal Advisory Board (IAB) represent several campus constituents. IAB members serve in an advisory capacity, convening with the Executive Committee in fall and spring to review and discuss AWARE-AI NRT activities and outcomes from a university-internal perspective.

• Keith Jenkins, Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion
• Diane Slusarski, Associate Provost and Dean, Graduate Education
• Pengcheng Shi, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship/Ph.D. Program Director
• Ed Hensel, ​​Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
• Mindy Magyar, Faculty Associate to the Provost for AALANA Faculty
• Malarvizhi Hirudauaraj, Director of AdvanceRIT and Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty
• Scott Franklin, Director, CASTLE Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning and Evaluation
• Matt Dye, Director of NTID SPACE Center

We invite your organization to connect with us about partnerships which may provide the following opportunities:

To learn more about partnership, please contact:

• Ferat Sahin, Ph.D. (feseee@rit.edu), Professor and NRT Executive Committee
• Cecilia Alm, Ph.D. (cecilia.o.alm@rit.edu), Associate Professor and NRT Director

• Interim Dean André Hudson, COS
• Professor Andreas Savakis, KGCOE
• Professor Andres Kwasinski, KGCOE
• Chair Bo Yuan, GCCIS
• Professor Caroline DeLong, COLA
• Associate Professor Chris Homan, GCCIS
• Professor Hans-Peter Bischof, GCCIS
• Chair Iris Rivero, KGCOE
• Associate Professor Jason Nordhaus, NTID
• Professor Jeff Pelz, COS
• Professor Joe Geigel, GCCIS
• Chair Joseph Baschnagel, COLA
• Interim Dean Kelly Norris Martin, COLA
• Associate Professor Joy Olabisi, COB
• Associate Professor Katie McConky, KGCOE
• Professor Linwei Wang, GCCIS
• Professor Matthew Wright, GCCIS
• Professor Paul Craig, COS
• Professor Sumita Mishra, GCCIS
• Associate Professor Tina Sutton, COLA
• Professor Qi Yu, GCCIS
• Professor Xumin Liu, GCCIS