UWB Innovation Forum

Dr. Anoop Gupta is a member of the UW Bothell Advisory Board and currently serves as Distinguished Scientist for Microsoft Research.

Prior to re-joining MSR, he served as corporate vice president of technology policy and strategy for Microsoft. He also served as the corporate vice president of the Unlimited Potential Group and Education Products Group and as corporate vice president and founding leader of Microsoft's Unified
Communications Group.

Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Gupta was a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University for 11 years. He re…

Ari Roy is a graduate student in the UW Bothell Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Program. She received a Bachelor of Arts in American Culture Studies in 2008 from Western Washington University, Fairhaven.

Ariel's research interests include LGBTQ experiences; queer women in film; and intersections of identity, hegemony and privilege. She loves conversation and debate and hopes to teach at the university level. Star Trek is her fandom, tattoos are her art form of choice, and home is her favorite place.

Carolyn Brennan is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research at UW Bothell. She earned a Master of Science in Health Policy and Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1995 and a B.A. in History from the University of Notre Dame, where she served as the Senior Class President for the Class of 1990.

Brennan has a broad background as a management consultant, project manager, and legislative and policy analyst. She designed major health care reform legislation as a senior legislative assistant to U.S. Congressman Porter Goss and launched a new Center for Health and the Social…

Kenyon S. Chan is Chancellor of the University of Washington Bothell – the fastest growing university campus in the state. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Special Education), an M. A. in Special Education, and a B. A. in Sociology.

Since his appointment in July 2007, UW Bothell has undergone a profound transformation – doubling the number of students served and tripling the number of degree programs offered – all while becoming the most ethnically diverse four-year campus in Washington state. Chancellor Chan…

Project: Building a Supportive Learning Community: Developing Best Practices for Veterans in Higher Education

Mentor: Eric Stewart, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Major: Community Psychology

Darryl Nevels is a senior working towards a degree in Environmental Science (Restoration Conservation Ecology). He recently returned from a month long seminar to Ecuador where he had the opportunity to conduct scientific research and explore the ecological diversity the country had to offer. He is the President of the Sustainability Organization at UW Bothell and Cascadia Community College.

Dr. Deborah Wilds is a member of the UW Bothell Advisory Board and currently serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the College Success Foundation.

Before coming to the Foundation in 2006, Wilds was a senior program officer for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where her responsibilities included serving as the Foundation's liaison to the Gates Millennium Scholars Program, the Gates Cambridge Scholars, and the Washington State Achievers Program and developing other college access related programs for low-income and students of color. She was also responsible fo…

Alka Kurian is a Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at UW Bothell. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and Cultural Studies from the University of Sunderland in the UK. She received a M.A. and M. Phil. in French from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and and M.A. in Film and Cultural Studies (audited only) from the University of Sunderland.

Kurian's research interests center on the postcolonial cinemas of opposition, border, and of displacement, Anglophone literatures and film, postcolonial theory, European comparative literatures, diaspora studies, and creati…

Nicole Calian is a Lecturer in the Center for University Studies and Programs at the UW Bothell. She received her Ph.D. in German Philosophy and Literature from the University of Washington. She earned an M.A. in German at the University of Colorado Boulder and is an M.A. candidate in Psychology at Seattle University. She earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts from John F. Kennedy University.

Calian is interested in philosophy, literature, intellectual history, and phenomenological psychology. She is intrigued by different conceptions of the human being throughout history: in particular, the theo…

Dr. Fariba Alamdari was appointed Vice President of Marketing and Value Analysis for Boeing Commercial Airplanes in June 2006. She leads a group of world-class experts who maintain and shape industry-leading analysis of the commercial aviation market and direct enterprise-wide activities with respect to strategic choices to be made by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Prior to joining Boeing, Alamdari was Head of the Department of Air Transport at Cranfield University in England where she was a Professor of Air Transport Management. She was also the Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Science and Manu…

Heath Davis is a student in the UW Bothell Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Program. She received an MLIS and Archives and Records Management degree from Pratt Institute in 2006 and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts with a concentration in printmaking from Bennington College in 2002.

Heath's research interests include public history, zines, archives, marginalized communities/histories, grassroots/community archives, public art, public space, and graffiti.

Heath is a librarian at Lake Washington Technical College, where she teaches printmaking and information literacy. In her free time…

Janet Geer, Surface Water Program Coordinator for the City of Bothell, is an Alumni of the UW-Bothell campus.  She works to protect our local and regional water quality by encouraging local residents, businesses, and the general public to adopt behaviors that preserve and protect our streams.  Janet also is on the steering committee for Puget Sound stormwater outreach and helped to develop the brand Puget Sound Starts Here. 

In July 2005, Dr. Lee Huntsman was selected by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire as the first executive director of the Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority, a public-private partnership intended to give life sciences research in the state a major boost.

After distinguished service in academic leadership spanning more than two decades, Huntsman was named President Emeritus by the University of Washington Board of Regents in July 2004. He continues to provide leadership in a variety of scientific and policy initiatives underway at the University and in the state of Washington and as a me…

Lou Gray is a member of the UW Bothell Advisory Board and is a CEO with over 18 years of entrepreneurial and operational leadership. His entrepreneurial efforts have lead him to the successful creation and sale of awarding winning products and companies, most recently with UIEvolution and at DreamBox Learning. On his journey to becoming a CEO, he has also served as an entrepreneur in residence, an attorney, an international strategic consultant, and director of mergers and acquisitions for an LBO firm.

Gray holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law; where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone…

Nora Mukaihata currently manages the Zine Archive and Publishing Project (ZAPP) at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle WA. She has been able to promote the format of zines, keep the archive open to the public, and work to preserve this "living" collection with the help of volunteers and interns.

Onyinye Edeh is a first year MPH student in the Department of Global Health at the UW School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. A native of Enugu State, Nigeria, Edeh has lived in the United States for almost 10 years. She comes to the UW from Atlanta, Georgia- a place she has called home since her arrival in the States in 2002.

Edeh's public health experiences include work on a community-based participatory research project documenting the health, education, and labor assets for youth in the Atlanta…

President Michael K. Young came to the University of Washington on July 1, 2011. Also a tenured Professor of Law, President Young has a distinguished record as an academic leader with broad experience in public service and diplomacy. As UW President, he leads the nation’s top public university (2nd among all universities) in attracting federal research funding.

Prior to his appointment at the UW, he served as President and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Utah. Under President Young’s leadership, Utah raised its stature nationally and internationally. It led the nation in …

Alan Wood is the Director of the 2012 Innovation Forum and is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Bothell. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in History from the University of Washington. He received his B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Oregon.

Wood is a founding faculty member at UWB, and has published articles and books on Chinese history and world history. For the past 10 years he has been using systems and complexity theory to understand the rise and fall of civilizations. He also has a long-standing interest in the following question: “what should every ed…

Andrea Kovalesky is an Associate Professor of Nursing at UW Bothell. She received her Ph.D. in Nursing Science from the University of Washington, her M.A. in Theology from Fuller Seminar in Pasadena, California, an MSN in Perinatal Nursing from the University of California San Francisco, and a BSN from University of San Francisco.

Kovalesky's research interests include the use of arts in healthcare; authoethnography and the visual arts. She has published on a wide range of topics related to social justice and community, including nursing history, public health, issues in addiction and paren…

Carrie Tzou is an Assistant Professor in science education at UW Bothell. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University and an M.S. in Teaching and Learning with a concentration in science education from Vanderbilt University. Her background includes experience as a bench scientist and as a middle school science and health teacher.

Her research has three major components, all connected with an interest in addressing issues of equity and social justice in science and environmental science education:
1) ethnographic work to understand how youth and their communities are po…

Christopher H. Wade is an Assistant Professor in the Nursing Program at UW Bothell. He received a Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins in 2008 and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University, where he also received his B.A. He is a current recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Human Genome Research Institute; his area of research is the ethical, social, and health implications of personalized genomic testing.

Wade's academic interests include developing methods for integrating genomics into nursing curriculums, identif…

Clarence Spigner is a Professor of Health Services and Adjunct Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Global Health at UW Seattle. Currently he is the acting coordinator of the MIRT program and the faculty director of the Global Partnerships Travel Grant.  He received a Dr.P.H. and M.P.H. in Behavioral Science and a B.A. in Sociology at UC Berkeley

Spigner's teaching and research interests are in the health of disadvantage populations, race & ethnic relations, and the intersections of popular culture's influence. His primary and critical focus is in community based research and the inherent…

Dan Jaffe is a Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry at UW Bothell and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at UW Seattle. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Chemistry from MIT.

Jaffe's primary area of expertise is in global and regional air pollution, especially carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides, aerosols, mercury and other metals. In 1997 his research team discovered that Asian air pollution could be transported across the Pacific in as little as six days time, under certain meteorological condition…

David H. Guston is Professor of Politics and Global Studies and Co-Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University.  He is also the Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU.  CNS-ASU, funded by the National Science Foundation for nearly $13 million over ten years (2005-2015), is dedicated to studying the societal implications of nano-scale science and engineering research and improving the societal outcomes of nanotechnologies through enhancing the societal capacity to understand and make informed choices.  H…

David Socha is an Assistant Professor in Computing and Software Systems at the University of Washington Bothell. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington. He earned a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin.

Socha's interests, research and teaching focus on how to create effective software-enabled systems that solve important human needs. This is a holistic design space involving many aspects from technical to social, business to science, quantitative to qualitative. Currently, he is focusing his r…

Deanna M. Kennedy is an Assistant Professor in the Business Program at the University of Washington Bothell. She received her Ph.D. in Management Science from the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received the 2009 Dissertation Prize for research on small groups by the Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association.

Kennedy studies communication technologies and decision tools that facilitate group/team processes and lead to better task outcomes. Her research has been published in the Journal of Engineering an…

Eric P Salathé Jr is an Assistant Professor of Climate Science and Policy at UW Bothell. He earned a Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University and a B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College. His teaching interests include climate science and mathematics.

Salathé conducts research on climate change and the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems. Through the UW Climate Impacts Group, his research supports climate impacts applications in many fields including air quality, hydrology, agriculture, and human health. His current research focuses on how local weather and lan…

Gwen Ottinger is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington Bothell. She received a Ph. D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California and holds bachelor's degrees in Aerospace Engineering and in Science, Technology and Culture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Situated at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental justice, Ottinger's work includes research on how new technologies ameliorate or exacerbate environmental inequities.  She is co-editor of Technoscience and Environm…

J. Rogers Hollingsworth is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and History at the University of Wisconsin; Visiting Scholar at the BioCircuits Institute of the University of California, San Diego; and Senior Scholar at the Kauffman Foundation. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Emory University.

Professor Hollingsworth is internationally recognized for his scholarship on innovation and organizations and has published extensively on institutional change within and across countries. His work has focused on two major questions: 1) why do particular institutional …

James Pfeiffer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Health Services in the UW Seattle Global Health Department.  He received his PhD in Anthropology, MPH in Community Health Services, and a MA in Anthropology from UCLA.  Pfeiffer earned his BA in Biology and Religion at Williams College.

His research interests include: Medical Anthropology, international health, and HIV/AIDS prevention.

Jeanne Heuving is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Bothell. She holds a Ph.D. in English and a M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She received a B.A. in English from Stanford University.

Heuving's research has evolved through her two primary commitments--to engage in experimental writing and in scholarly inquiry. In her critical book, Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne, Heuving addresses how gender is defining for Moore’s poetry, although she herself largely omits gender polemics from her writing. Heuving is currently …

Jin-Kyu Jung is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He received his Ph.D. in Geography and M.U.P. in Urban Planning from State University of New York at Buffalo. He earned a B. S. in Urban Engineering from Busan National University in South Korea.

Jung brings theoretical and technical expertise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mixed-methods approach to the field of urban geography and planning. His work includes exploration of the importance of politics and power as well as the complexities of race, class, and g…

Joe Milutis is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Bothell. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Modern Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.

Milutis is a media artist and writer whose interdisciplinary work includes experimental sound and radio; video works; new media; experimental narrative; theoretical writings; and various media and literature hybrids. Currently, he is completing a large scale audio piece based on the relation between William Carlos Williams' Paterson and the city …

Johanna Crane is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at UW Bothell. She received a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California San Francisco/Berkeley, an MA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University, and a BA in English from Wesleyan University.

Her current research documents the complex power dynamics that underlie global health research and practice. Crane's ethnography (Resistant to Treatment: Africa, AIDS, and the Rise of Global Health Science, in preparation), uses fieldwork conducted in the U.S. and Uganda to track …

JoLynn Edwards is a Professor of Art History & Comparative Arts at UW Bothell. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and a B.A. in General and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Washington.

Edwards research interests encompass the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly French painting and drawing, Baroque dance and ballet d'action, and the rise of the art market and the commodification of culture before the French Revolution. Edwards' work has focused on the Parisian art market, culminating with her book, Alexandre-Joseph Paillet: expert et marchand de tableaux a la fin du XVIIIe siec…

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren is an Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington Bothell. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University and an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned an M.A.L.S. in Literature and Movement from Wesleyan University and a B.A. in Psychology from Antioch University.

Kochhar-Lindgren's critical work spans a range of topics, including art as a site of research, transnational performance forms, disability issues, the environment, and ways to increase a…

Kelvin Sung is a Professor with the Computing and Software Systems Program at UW Bothell. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992.

Sung's background is in computer graphics, hardware and machine architecture. He came to UW Bothell from Alias|Wavefront (now part of Autodesk) in Toronto, where he played a key role in designing and implementing the Maya Renderer. Before joining Alias|Wavefront, he was an Assistant Professor with the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.

Sung's research interests are in studying the r…

Lauren Hartzell Nichols is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Program on Values in Society and the Program on Environment at UW Seattle. She received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University, where she had a diverse dissertation committee that included both philosophers and a climate scientist. She also holds a B.A. in philosophy and environmental studies with a certificate in conservation biology and environmental studies from Connecticut College. Lauren’s area of specialization is environmental ethics, with a focus on climate change. She is currently working on her first book manuscr…

Stephanie Malia Fullerton, D.Phil, is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She received a D.Phil in Human Population Genetics from the University of Oxford and later re-trained in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications research with a fellowship from the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute.

Her work explores scientists' understandings of human genetic variation and its relation to disease risk, the use of racial and ethnic constructs in the conduct and interpretation of genetic research, and the responsibl…

Robin Angotti is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at UW Bothell. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from North Carolina State University in 2004. She is a National Board Certified high school mathematics teacher and taught public high school in rural eastern North Carolina for a decade before returning to school for her Ph.D.

Angotti’s research background is in using Multiple Representations to Enhance Student Learning in Developmental Algebra, Statistics Education, and Pedagogical Best Practices for Implementing Technology in Mathematics Education. Her current res…

Santiago Lopez is an Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and the Environment from George Washington University in Washington DC. He received an M.A. in Geography from Arizona State University and a B.Eng. in Geographical and Environmental Engineering from Escuela Politécnica del Ejército.

Lopez's research has its theoretical and empirical base in geographic information science (GISc) (i.e. the science behind geotechnologies such as geographic information systems, global positioning systems, remote se…

Stephen Gloyd is the Associate Chair of the Department of Global Health, Professor of Global Health and Health Services, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, the Evan School, Family Medicine, and the Industrial Engineering Program and UW Seattle.  He received his M.D. in Family Practice Medicine at the University of Chicago, a M.P.H. in Health Policy Management and a B.A. in Biochemistry at Harvard University. 

Dr. Gloyd serves as director of education and curriculum activities in the Department of Global Health. He is also Executive Director of Health Alliance International, a Seattle-base…

Tayfun "Typhoon" Keskin is an Assistant Professor of Business at UW Bothell and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. He worked in P&G as a process engineer after receiving his Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from the Bogazici (Bosphorus) University in Turkey. Then, he received an MBA degree at Sabanci University, Istanbul. He also worked for other multinational companies such as Oracle and Kraft Foods prior to his Ph.D.

Keskin's research and teaching interests include collaborative information technologies, behavioral modeling and sim…

Ted Hiebert is an Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He received a Ph.D. in Humanities from Concordia University and an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Calgary. He received a B.F.A. (Honors) in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria.

Hiebert's research practice is multi-faceted, interdisciplinary and often collaborative -- spanning theoretical research, scholarly writing, art criticism, curatorial projects and artistic production in photographic, digital and conceptual genres. Current projects include:

• In Prai…

Ana Mari Cauce, Provost and Executive Vice President, joined the University of Washington faculty in 1986 as an Assistant Professor after earning degrees in English and Psychology from the University of Miami in 1977, summa cum laude and with departmental honors, and a Ph.D. in Psychology, with a concentration in Child Clinical and Community Psychology from Yale University in 1984. Cauce holds a joint appointment in American Ethnic Studies, and secondary appointments in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and in School of Education. She has held numerous administrative positions at the UW, i…

Richard Shea is a member of the UW Bothell Advisory Board and currently serves as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board at Olympus Respiratory America (ORA). He joined Spiration in early 2000, after more than 28 years of medical device and health care industry experience. Shea led the company through significant growth with development and commercialization of its minimally invasive IBV® System for the treatment of severe emphysema and air leaks post-thoracic surgery. He assumed his current responsibilities when Olympus Medical Systems acquired Spiration in 2010 and formed ORS.

Prior to hi…

Project: Can Autistics Redefine Autism? The Cultural Politics of Autistic Activism

Mentor: Benjamin Gardner, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Major: Interdisciplinary Studies (Society, Ethics, & Human Behavior)

Sabrina Combs, Recycling and Public Services Projects Administrator.  After 10 years working for an Entertainment Corporation I jumped off the corporate ladder to pursue a career path in public service.  With this career change, I have successful run a local campaign to elect and re-elect the Snohomish County Sheriff and have worked since 2008 for the City of Bothell in my current role.  In this role, focused on Green programs for the City, I have received four awards personally and spearheaded a program that received a fifth.  All the awards are not as much of an achievement to me as seeing e…

Tom Clement is currently the CEO of two start-up companies: Cardiac Insight, Inc., and Aqueduct Neurosciences, Inc. Cardiac Insight is developing a highly accurate Atrial Fibrillation monitor to address the “silent” a-fib market, those patients with undiagnosed, difficult to detect atrial fibrillation. Aqueduct Neurosciences is developing a shunt system to treat hydrocephalus, a condition where the human brain does not re-absorb the cerebral spinal fluid that is constantly being produced.

Clement was previously the Director of New Ventures – Life Sciences for the University of Washington’s C…