Our Team

Leadership

Andrew Smyth

Andrew W. Smyth

Center Director & Principal Investigator; Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
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Jason O. Hallstrom

Deputy Director & Chief Research Officer
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Jennifer Laird

Deputy Director for Workforce Development
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Gil Zussman

Wi-Edge Research Lead; Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Roxana Geambasu

Security, Privacy & Fairness Research Lead, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Carl Vondrick

Situational Awareness Research Lead; YM Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Gil Eyal

Public Interest Technology Research Lead
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Jorge Ortiz

Applications Research Lead; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
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Anthony Vanky

Workforce Development Co-Director
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Donna Chamely-Wiik

Workforce Development Co-Director
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Director's Council

Barbara Askins

Senior Advisor & Co-Chair of Community Partners in Residence; President & CEO, 125th Street Business Improvement District, Upper Manhattan (Harlem), New York City
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Patricia J. Culligan

Senior Advisor; Dean, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame
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Stephen Fiore

Senior Advisor; Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and Professor, Cognitive Sciences Program, University of Central Florida
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Staff

Olivia Moore

Managing Director
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Fernanda Martinez

Associate Director for Education & Community Programs
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Mehmet Kerem Türkcan

Associate Research Scientist in Civil Engineering, Columbia University
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Tara Lanigan

Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships
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Martin Somah Jr.

Finance Manager
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Dana Smith

SLC Co-Chair
Undergraduate Student
Florida Atlantic University
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Navid Salami Pargoo

SLC Co-Chair
Ph.D. Student
Rutgers University
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Boshra Khalili

SLC Industry Co-Lead
Ph.D. Student
Columbia University
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Stepan Mazokha

SLC Industry Co-Lead
Postdoc
Florida Atlantic University
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Seon Britton

SLC Career Development Lead
PhD Student
CUNY Graduate Center
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Research Thrust 1 - Wi-Edge

Jason O. Hallstrom

Deputy Director & Chief Research Officer
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Gil Zussman

Wi-Edge Research Lead; Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Zoran Kostic

Professor of Professional Practice, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Dimitris Pados

Professor and I-SENSE Fellow, Florida Atlantic University
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Dipankar Raychaudhuri

Professor and Director of WINLAB, Rutgers University
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Henning Schulzrinne

Professor Dept. of Computer Science; Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Ivan Seskar

Chief Technologist at WINLAB, Rutgers University
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George Sklivanitis

Schmidt Research Associate Professor & I-SENSE Fellow
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Research Thrust 2 - Situational Awareness

Andrew Smyth

Andrew W. Smyth

Center Director & Principal Investigator; Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
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Carl Vondrick

Situational Awareness Research Lead; YM Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Jorge Ortiz

Applications Research Lead; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
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Zoran Kostic

Professor of Professional Practice, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Sharon Di

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
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Mubbasir Kapadia

Associate Professor Computer Science Department, Rutgers University
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Brian Smith

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Mehmet Kerem Türkcan

Associate Research Scientist in Civil Engineering, Columbia University
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Markus Schläpfer

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Research Thrust 3 - Security, Privacy, and Fairness

Roxana Geambasu

Security, Privacy & Fairness Research Lead, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Henning Schulzrinne

Professor Dept. of Computer Science; Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Steven M. Bellovin

Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Rachel Cummings

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
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Sal Stolfo

Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Research Thrust 4 - Public Interest Technology

Jennifer Laird

Deputy Director for Workforce Development
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Gil Eyal

Public Interest Technology Research Lead
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Jorge Ortiz

Applications Research Lead; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
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Anthony Vanky

Workforce Development Co-Director
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Brittany N. Fox-Williams

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Lehman College
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Gillian Bayne

Associate Professor of Science Education, Lehman College
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Brian Smith

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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Cristian Capotescu

Associate Director The Trust Collaboratory Columbia University
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Research Thrust 5 -Streetscape Applications

Jason O. Hallstrom

Deputy Director & Chief Research Officer
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Jorge Ortiz

Applications Research Lead; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
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Jinwoo Jang

Assistant Professor Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
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Zoran Kostic

Professor of Professional Practice, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Ivan Seskar

Chief Technologist at WINLAB, Rutgers University
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Sharon Di

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
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Jing (Peter) Jin

Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Valentine Aalo

Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University
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Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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Brian Smith

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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