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.

• Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania, Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science
• Lorna Quandt, Assistant Professor, Gallaudet, CREST founder
• Melissa Royo, Director of Data Science and Regional Professional Services Lead – Dataiku
• Natalie Schluter, ITU, Associate Professor, Apple, Machine Learning Researcher
• Nathan Pendelton, Systems Engineer - Robotics & Automotive, Motional
• Peter Bajcsy, Computer Scientist, Researcher, NIST
• Raja Kushalnagar, Professor, Program Director of Information Technology, Gallaudet

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
• Vanessa Herman, Vice President for Government and Community Relations
• Diane Slusarski, Associate Provost and Dean, Graduate Education
• Matt Huenerfauth, Dean of Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
• Kelly Norris Martin, Dean of College of Liberal Arts
• Pengcheng Shi, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship/Ph.D. Program Director
• Ed Hensel, ​​Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
• Eva Navarro Lopez, Director of School of Information
• Mindy Magyar, Faculty Associate to the Provost for AALANA Faculty
• Malarvizhi Hirudauaraj, Director of AdvanceRIT and Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty
• Matt Dye, Director of NTID SPACE Center
• Christopher Collison, Professor for School of Chemistry and Materials Science

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

• 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
• Associate Professor Jason Nordhaus, NTID
• Professor Jeff Pelz, COS
• Professor Joe Geigel, GCCIS
• Chair Joseph Baschnagel, COLA
• Chair Katie McConky, KGCOE
• Professor Linwei Wang, GCCIS
• Professor Matthew Wright, GCCIS
• Professor Paul Craig, COS
• Professor Sumita Mishra, GCCIS
• Professor Tina Sutton, COLA
• Professor Qi Yu, GCCIS
• Professor Xumin Liu, GCCIS