Experience

Criticality Sciences, Inc.
• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Chief Science Officer

  • Jul 2020 - Present


Northern Arizona University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

  • Aug 2016 - Present

  At NAU I am helping build a new interdisciplinary PhD program in Informatics and Computing, while leading a series of research projects focused on complex systems, critical infrastructures, data science, and resilience (often with an emphasis on water).

• Director, School of Informatics Computing and Cyber Systems

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2022

  During 2019-2022 I led all aspects of strategy, operations, and personnel for SICCS, one of NAU's flagship interdisciplinary academic schools, with roughly 100 full time faculty and staff, nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students around the world, over 20 academic programs, and an elite research faculty executing well over $10 Million per year in sponsored research projects. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, we succeeded in defending and growing faculty capacity and student enrollment… Show more During 2019-2022 I led all aspects of strategy, operations, and personnel for SICCS, one of NAU's flagship interdisciplinary academic schools, with roughly 100 full time faculty and staff, nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students around the world, over 20 academic programs, and an elite research faculty executing well over $10 Million per year in sponsored research projects. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, we succeeded in defending and growing faculty capacity and student enrollment, launching a number of successful new online and in-person programs, maintaining the largest international student cohort on campus, more than doubling graduate enrollment, securing continued program accreditation, and increasing research activity.



Arizona State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor of Engineering

  • Jan 2009 - Aug 2016

  At ASU I helped with the development of an innovative undergraduate-oriented professional Engineering B.S.E. program at the new Polytechnic campus, while leading science and engineering research projects under ASU's world-class R-1 research mission. At ASU I helped with the development of an innovative undergraduate-oriented professional Engineering B.S.E. program at the new Polytechnic campus, while leading science and engineering research projects under ASU's world-class R-1 research mission.



University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow (Research Assistant)

  • Aug 2005 - Dec 2008

  NASA-funded research on the development of advanced statistical methods for the analysis of nonlinear feedback patterns in timeseries data.

• Research Engineer

  • Aug 2004 - Aug 2005

  Supported the development of a proposal and digital library to establish an NSF-funded Hydrological Observatory on the Illinois River Basin.