Aaron Beveridge
Computer Science
Aaron Beveridge’s research combines digital humanities and data science methods to study networked writing and the circulation of digital artifacts.
David Bickel
Computer Science
Dr. David Bickel is an associate professor in the Informatics and Analytics program and his research interests include uncertainty propagation, information theory, multiple testing, and the calibration of p values.
Jeremy Bray
Economics
Jeremy Bray is a professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with research primarily focusing on the economics of substance abuse and the economic evaluation of behavioral health interventions.
Rick Bunch
Geography, Environmental, and Sustainability
Rick Bunch, Professor, specializes in the development of methods and concepts that underlie Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He is interested collaborative research that requires the use of GIS and the conceptualization, modeling and analysis of geographic data. His work has included the development of radio wave propagation models and new approaches to incorporating the impacts of man-made and natural features that influence radio waves as they travel across the earth’s surface. He has also conducted research that examines patterns in human behavior through cognitive maps, geographic space and the processes associated with how people learn and synthesize geographic information.
Ang Chen
Kinesiology
Dr. Ang Chen is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, extensively involved in children and adolescent physical education and physical activity research.
Richard Cox
University Libraries
Richard is a Digital Technology Consultant in the University Libraries, with a focus upon digital scholarship methods and tools. His research includes the Digital Library on American Slavery and Well Crafted NC.
Keith Debbage
Geography, Environmental, and Sustainability
Dr. Keith Debbage is a Professor in the Department of Geography and the Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and Tourism. His research interests include the economic geography of the tourist and airline industry, urban economic development, and city planning.
Mathieu Despard
Social Work
I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at UNC Greensboro, a Faculty Director and Visiting Scholar with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill. I am also a Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Emerging Issues at NC State University to support its AY23-24 focus on Financial Resilience recently served as Chairperson of the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Onyi Dillibe
Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
Onyi Nwafor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at the Bryan School of Business and Economics. Onyi received her PhD from the University of Houston, Texas. Her research primarily investigates how healthcare organizations can effectively achieve coordination using technology, incentives, and structural design.
Indika Dissanayake
Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
Indika Dissanayake is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at the Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her research interests include crowdsourcing, social media, online health communities, sharing economy, and virtual communities.
Julie Edmunds
Early College Research Center
Dr. Julie Edmunds is Director of the Early College Research Center at SERVE, where she leads a team doing research on the early college model and related topics. She has been studying early college and dual enrollment for almost 20 years; her research includes a 17-year experimental study of the impact of early colleges and evaluations of multiple large-scale efforts across the country to apply early college principles to traditional high schools.
Jennifer Toller Erausquin
Public Health Education
Dr. Erausquin is a social epidemiologist whose research examines gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors as determinants of sexual and reproductive health, with an emphasis on HIV prevention and care engagement. Dr. Erausquin is a quantitative researcher with expertise in sampling hard-to-reach populations and analyzing large survey data sets, and a substantive expert in structural approaches to understand and eliminate health inequities.
Dora Gicheva
I.D.E.A. Co-Director | Economics
Dr. Gicheva is an associate professor of economics. Her research interests include topics in education finance, access to and success in college for disadvantaged students, teacher labor markets, mentoring, intrinsic motivation, and labor supply.
Eric Grebing
Early College Research Center
Eric has over 10 years of experience with the ECHS model from several different perspectives. He taught math and science at an ECHS in North Carolina; he led research and development work at an organization supporting a multi-state network of ECHS; and he was project director for a study evaluating the impact of an effort to implement early college strategies in comprehensive high schools.
Kenneth Gruber
Center for Housing and Community Studies
Dr. Kenneth Gruber is a research psychologist with over 40 years of research and program evaluation experience. His areas of specialty include data collection design and methodology, statistical analysis, program evaluation, technical writing assistance, and grant application review.
Sat Gupta
Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Gupta is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Delhi (1977) and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Colorado State University (1987). He joined the UNCG faculty in 2004 after being at the University of Southern Maine for 18 years. His research interests include sampling designs, time series forecasting, and biostatistics.
Bryan Hutchins
Early College Research Center
Bryan has been part of the evaluation team examining the impacts of efforts to implement early college strategies in comprehensive high schools. He has a strong interest in non-college-bound youth and is particularly interested in early college settings where students earn technical credentials. He recently published an article on why ECHS graduates might not continue on to further education.
Emily Janke
Institute for Community & Economic Engagement | Peace and Conflict Studies
As the Director of ICEE, Emily M. Janke, Ph.D. leads and supports initiatives that encourage, support, elevate, and amplify faculty, staff, student, and community colleague community-engaged teaching, learning, research, creative activity, and service in ways that promote the strategic goals of the university, address pressing issues in the Piedmont Triad and serve the public good of communities across the state, nation, and world.
Corey Johnson
Geography, Environmental, and Sustainability
Corey Johnson is Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He serves as co-editor of the journal Geopolitics. Corey’s research and teaching areas include the political geography of Europe and Eurasia, borders and border security, natural resources and energy geopolitics, and Germany.
Minjeong Kim
Computer Science
Dr. Kim received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science Engineering from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. Dr. Kim’s research interests are mainly in developing cutting-edge image analysis methods for the interdisciplinary field between computer science and biomedicine.
Jeff Labban
Health and Human Sciences Office of Research
Jeff Labban has a doctorate in Kinesiology, with a doctoral minor in Educational Research Methodology. Jeff’s primary role in the Office of Research is to provide statistical support for both new and ongoing research projects generated by faculty and students within HHS. This typically includes analytical support for projects already underway or methodological consultation and power analysis for prospective projects. His research interests include the relationship between exercise and cognitive function, specifically long-term memory.
Prashanti Manda
Computer Science
Dr. Manda has been a part of the faculty first in the department of Computer Science and currently in Informatics and Analytics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2016. During her time at UNCG, she has established a robust and productive research program funded by Microsoft Research, UNCG, and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Manda loves hiking by the lake with her two fluffy dogs. Time in nature brings her peace, perspective, and gives her time to clear her head.
NOel Mazade
I.D.E.A. Co-Director | Office of Research and Engagement
Dr. Mazade serves as an Innovation Catalyst and Research Scientist with a focus on health services research, cultivation of new data bases, and exploration of new program initiatives within UNCG and between the university and external entities.
SHaleen Miller
Geography, Environmental, and Sustainability
Dr. Miller’s work lies in environmental planning, at the intersection of building health communities, green infrastructure, and social justice. She received her PhD in Urban & Regional Planning from Florida State University. .
Hamid Nemati
Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
Dr. Hamid R. Nemati is a Professor in the Information Systems and Supply Chain Management Department . He is internationally recognized for his research in artificial intelligence, data science, big data analytics, information security and privacy, and organizational and behavioral aspects of Information Technology development and use. His current research interests are at the intersection of algorithmic and socio-behavioral aspects of artificial intelligence with a particular focus on development of ethical and trustworthy value-generating applications.
Randall Penfield
Dean’s Office – Education
Randall Penfield is a professor of educational measurement and assessment and the Dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Bruce Rich
Center for Housing and Community Studies
Bruce Rich is Director of the Center for Housing and Community Studies and a researcher, advocate and policy coordinator with the Center. A lawyer by background and the recipient of the degree of Master of Public Affairs at UNCG with a concentration in Community and Economic Development, Mr. Rich conducts research for nonprofit organizations and local governments in the fields of economic and community development, housing, health equity and access to justice.
Scott Richter
Mathematics and Statistics
Scott Richter is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Director of the Statistical Consulting Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. Richter earned a Ph.D. in 1997 from Oklahoma State University, and he joined the UNCG faculty in 2001. His research focuses on nonparametric methods, multiple comparisons and interdisciplinary research.
Laura Rosof
Early College Research Center
Laura is part of the research team examining the implementation of North Carolina’s dual enrollment pathways and the evaluation of a network of schools in Indiana aimed at increasing the adoption of early college practices. She is interested in programs and policies that promote post-secondary access and success.
Anne Royalty
Economics
Anne Beeson Royalty is Professor and Department Head of Economics in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNCG. She is a health economist and studies health insurance access and health care costs.
A.F. Salam
Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
A.F. Salam is the Graduate Program Director and an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Rahul Singh
Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
Rahul Singh is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Supply Chain Management Department. His research interests include Health Analytics, Analytics and Visualization, Health IT Value, EHR impact on clinical and operational efficacy, Social Media Strategy, Accessibility and Usability of Systems for Blind and Visually Impaired Users, Information Systems Security, Secure Business Process Design.
Robert Strack
Public Health Education
Robert W. Strack, PhD is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Public Health Education in the School of Health and Human Sciences at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Through reading, deep academic conversation and immersion in the community’s response to their adolescent pregnancy issue Dr. Strack developed an appreciation of the social ecological model’s contribution to our understanding and a personal conviction that social issues are more effectively impacted through a combination of policy, systems and individual-level change strategies.
Shan Suthaharan
Computer Science
Dr. Suthaharan’s research interests fall predominantly under the state-of-the-art themes of big data analytics and machine learning. In big data analytics research, he studies various data characteristics — data heterogeneity, complexity, scalability, and unpredictability — of big data for extracting knowledge to understand the data source that produced the big data. In machine learning research, Dr. Suthaharan studies advanced mathematical, statistical, and computational techniques to formulate efficient machine learning models and algorithms that can help accomplish big data analytics research.
GracieLee Weaver
Public Health Education
GracieLee is a health coach, advocate, researcher and educator. She was trained and certified as a health coach in 2013. Since then, she has been providing health coaching services to UNCG employees through HealthyUNCG. She also previously worked for Wake Forest University in the Office of Wellbeing where she provided health coaching services for faculty, staff, and students. GracieLee sees health coaching as an opportunity to support her clients with guided self-reflection, goal setting, and accountability.
David Wyrick
Innovate UNCG
UNCG’s chief innovation officer Dr. David L. Wyrick directs Innovate UNCG within UNCG Research and Engagement. He is also a professor of public health education, founding director of the Institute to Promote Athlete Health & Wellness, and the UNCG Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) to the NCAA.