2025-26 New Faculty Cohort
Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (BAHT)
Dr. Tiffany Bragg
Visiting Assistant Professor – History
Laura Campos de González
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Philosophy
Sibyl Kempson
Assistant Professor – Performing Arts
Dr. Shivika Mathur
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Communications
Dr. Caitlin Miles
Assistant Professor – Communications
Dr. William “Bill” Nichols
Professor – Literature, Dean of Undergraduate Education, Mary McDermott Chair for Undergraduate Education
Rowena Pedrena
Assistant Professor – Visual and Performing Arts
Dr. Wayne Reed
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Language and Literature
Yvonne Sanchez
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Technical Communication
Dr. Kevin Waite
Associate Professor – History
Thomas “Zeke” Williams
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Design and Creative Practice
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS)
Dr. Anny Castilla-Earls
Professor – Speech, Language and Hearing
Dr. Janakiraman Kaushik Lakshminarasimhan
Assistant Professor – Neuroscience
Dr. Elena Luchkina
Assistant Professor – Psychology
Dr. Annelise Pesch
Assistant Professor – Psychology
Dr. Kirupa Suthakar
Assistant Professor – Speech, Language and Hearing
Dr. Muhammad Saad Yousuf
Assistant Professor – Neuroscience
School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS)
Dr. Megan Augustyn
Associate Professor – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Jessica Garcia
Visiting Assistant Professor – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Yingyi Lin
Assistant Professor – Global Health
Dr. Andrew McNeely
Assistant Professor – Sociology
Dr. Alexander Michels
Assistant Professor – Geospatial Information Sciences
Dr. Robin Paige
Professor of Instruction – Sociology, Vice Provost for Academic Success and Innovation
Dr. Muhammad Rahman
Associate Professor – Geospatial Information Sciences
Dr. Jeannine Rios
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Sociology and Public Health
Dr. Gyu Sang Shim
Assistant Professor – Political Science
Dr. Arthur Vasquez
Assistant Professor – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Amneh Akour
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Bogdan Antohe
Associate Professor of Practice – Bioengineering
Dr. Connor Armstrong
Assistant Professor – Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Daniel Burleson
Professor of Instruction and First-Year Director – Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Liang He
Assistant Professor – Computer Science
Dr. Soneya Binta Hossain
Assistant Professor – Computer Science
Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim
Assistant Professor – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Wafa Jaffal
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Computer Science
Dr. Imtiaz Karim
Assistant Professor – Computer Science
Rama Koganti
Assistant Professor of Practice – Systems Engineering
Dr. Minah Lee
Assistant Professor – Bioengineering
Dr. Jiannan Li
Assistant Professor – Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Yi Li
Assistant Professor – Bioengineering
Dr. Beiyu Lin
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Computer Science
Dr. Ron Rohrer
Research Professor and Associate Director | Innovator Joins UTD To Advance Integrated Circuit Simulation
Dr. Abusayeed Saifullah
Associate Professor – Computer Science
Dr. Jinwen Wang
Assistant Professor – Computer Science
Dr. Congyi Zhang
Assistant Professor – Computer Science
Dr. Jie Zhou
Assistant Professor – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hobson Wildenthal Honors College
Dr. Jennifer Painter
Assistant Professor of Instruction
School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Ruth Johnson
Director of Teacher Development Center, Assistant Professor of Instruction
Dr. Chelsea Taylor
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Naveen Jindal School of Management
Dr. Huaizhi Chen
Associate Professor – Finance
Jason Cirilo
Assistant Professor of Practice – Professional Development
Wesley Durow
Associate Professor of Practice – Marketing
Naireet Ghosh
Assistant Professor – Operations Management
Dongdi Gu
Visiting Assistant Professor – Accounting
Dr. Vaidyanathan Jayaraman
Professor of Instruction – Operations Management
Dr. Junyoung Jeong
Assistant Professor – Accounting
Dr. Subrahmanyam Aditya Karanam
Assistant Professor – Information Systems
Dr. Poonam Kumar
Director of UTD Global, Assistant Provost and Professor of Instruction – Human Resources Management
Dr. Xinwei Li
Assistant Professor – Finance
Behnam Mohammadi
Assistant Professor – Marketing
Antonio Paes
Professor of Practice – Information Systems
Matthew Paske
Associate Professor of Practice – Accounting
Dr. Ryan Raimi
Assistant Professor – Information Systems
Dr. Ricardo Vicente
Director of Risk Management and Insurance Technology and Professor of Instruction – Finance
Dr. Sabrina Volpone
Associate Professor – Organization, Strategy and International Management
Dr. Chonghuan Wang
Assistant Professor – Operations Management
School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dr. Joseph Byrnes
Assistant Professor – Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences
Dr. Theodosios Douvropoulos
Assistant Professor – Mathematical Sciences
Dr. Matthew Esparza
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Biological Sciences
Dr. Yannick Fotio
Assistant Professor – Biological Sciences
Dr. Jing Ge
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Saba Khan
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Yves Hon Kwan
Assistant Professor – Physics
Dr. Mengke Liu
Assistant Professor – Physics
Dr. Iti Mehta
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Biological Sciences
Dr. Shixu Meng
Assistant Professor – Applied Mathematics
Dr. Rui Miao
Assistant Professor – Data Science
Dr. Ritu Mishra
Assistant Professor of Instruction – Biological Sciences
Dr. Sankalp Shukla
Assistant Professor – Biological Sciences
Dr. Zhao Sun
Assistant Professor – Biological Sciences
Dr. Ming Xie
Assistant Professor – Physics