Our Team

Leadership

Andrew Smyth

Andrew W. Smyth

Center Director & Principal Investigator
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Jason O. Hallstrom

Deputy Director & Chief Research Officer
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Jennifer Laird

Deputy Director for Inclusive Education
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Gil Zussman

Wi-Fi Edge Research Lead
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Mubarak Shah

Situational Awareness Research Co-Lead
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Roxana Geambasu

Privacy & Security Research Lead
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Carl Vondrick

Situational Awareness Research Co-Lead
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Gil Eyal

Public Interest Technology Research Lead
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Jorge Ortiz

Applications Research Lead
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Andrea Guzmán

Diversity & Culture of Inclusion Co-Director
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Anthony Vanky

Workforce Development Co-Director
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Brittany N. Fox-Williams

Trust Director
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Donna Chamely-Wiik

Workforce Development Co-Director
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Kimberly Cook-Chennault

Diversity & Culture of Inclusion Co-Director
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Danushi Fernando

Diversity & Culture of Inclusion Co-Director
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Director's Council

Barbara Askins

Senior Advisor
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Patricia J. Culligan

Senior Advisor
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Stephen Fiore

Senior Advisor
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Staff

Olivia Moore

Managing Director
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Fernanda Martinez

Associate Director of Inclusive Programs
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Mehmet Kerem Türkcan

Associate Research Scientist
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Tara Lanigan

Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships
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Andrew Shodell

Communications Coordinator
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Michelle Lee

VALIDATE Accelerator Manager, Columbia Lab-to-Market Accelerator Network
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Emily Portalatín-Méndez

Lehman College Representative
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Sonia Moshfeghi

Co-Chair
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Sevin Mohammadi

Columbia University Representative
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Dana Smith

Education & Outreach Liaison
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Chengbo Zang

Industry Liaison
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Anton Rajko

Florida Atlantic University Representative
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Precious Nwaorgu

University of Central Florida Representative
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Yuan Sun

Rutgers University Representative
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Research Thrust 1 - Wi-Edge

Jason O. Hallstrom

Deputy Director & Chief Research Officer
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Gil Zussman

Wi-Fi Edge Research Lead
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Roxana Geambasu

Privacy & Security Research Lead
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Jorge Ortiz

Applications Research Lead
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Chinwendu Enyioha

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
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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
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Valentine Aalo

Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University
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Research Thrust 2 - Situational Awareness

Markus Schläpfer

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

Roxana Geambasu

Privacy & Security Research Lead
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Brittany N. Fox-Williams

Trust Director
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Chinwendu Enyioha

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
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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
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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 Inclusive Education
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Gil Eyal

Public Interest Technology Research Lead
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Anthony Vanky

Workforce Development Co-Director
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Tian Zheng

Researcher
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Brittany N. Fox-Williams

Trust Director
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Gillian Bayne

Associate Professor of Science Education, Lehman College
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John Renne

Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic 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
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Tian Zheng

Researcher
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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
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Sharon Di

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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John Renne

Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic University
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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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