People
We are a network of faculty and professionals who strive to:
Train students in multidisciplinary communication;
Inspire and motivate challenges students can tackle;
Provide feedback on student project insights and impact.
We provide a framework for students to:
Make their engagement with society more effective by help their projects (that are near/at completion) with community stakeholders grow in the long term.
Core faculty
Every semester, core faculty provide feedback to current Fellows. Some semesters there are less, and some there are more. The snapshot provided here is meant to reflect the ongoing semester, while other facultly who regularly contribute or have contributed in the past are listed in the section below.
Jacek Dzikowski
Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
Carly Kocurek
Professor of Digital Humanities and Media Studies, Director of Graduate Studies
Michael
Pelsmajer
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
Gorjana Popović
Associate Teaching Professor, Applied Mathematics
Hannah Ringler
Assistant Teaching Professor & Director of Communication Across the Curriculum
Despina Stasi
Associate Teaching Professor of Statistics, Applied Mathematics
Affiliated faculty
Yuhan Ding
Associate Teaching Professor of Applied Mathematics, Program Director of Master of Data Science
Robert Ellis
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
Matthew Bauer
Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
Mustafa Bilgic
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Program Director Master of Artificial Intelligence
Chun Liu
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Chair Applied Mathematics
Cynthia Hood
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Chair Computer Science
Mohamed El Marzouki
Assistant Professor of Communication, Humanities
Hemanshu Kaul
Associate Professor Applied Mathematics, Co-Director, M.S. in Computational Decision Science and Operations Research (CDSOR)
Elisabeth Hildt
Professor of Philosophy, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Ivan Mutis
Assistant Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering
Brent Stephens
Professor of Architectural Engineering, Director of ArchEng, Director of Environmental Engineering
Fouad Teymour
S.C. Jonhson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Dynamics
Irmak Turan
Assistant Professor of Architecture
María A. Villalobos H.
Associate Professor of Architecture, Coordinator of the third year of the Master on Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Students
Fellows work on their proposed solo or team projects, sometimes collaboratively.
Associate Fellows work in collaboration with one of the main projects listed above, offering an interdisciplinary lens critical to expanding the project impact.
We are always looking to add more people to the team - reach out & connect!
Advisors
Associate Professor at the Stuart School of Business and the Institute of Design, Illinois Tech
A. Jean-Luc Ayitou
Associate Professor of Chemistry, UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Illinois Tech's Department of Chemistry
Coleman Foundation Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Stuart School of Business; Director, Master of Technological Entrepreneurship, Illinois Tech
Former faculty who helped the program in the early stages
Matthew Dixon
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
Mar was an Associate Professor of History at Illinois Tech until Fall 2023. They were a critical member of SoReMo in the first two years of the program.
Laura Forlano
Laura was an Associate Professor, Institute of Design. She led the application for llinois Tech to join the Public Interest Technology University Network in 2022.
Christopher Rudd
Instructor and Lead, Chicago Design Lab, Institute of Design, Lead Activator, ChiByDesign
Want to join the collaboration? Reach out & connect!