Jeffrey L. Popyack

Jeffrey L. Popyack is Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science at Drexel University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia and B.S. in Mathematics from George Mason University. His research interests are in operations research, artificial intelligence and computer science education. He was the Academic Director for the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information, Society and Technology from 2002-2008 and for the Drexel University Computing Academy since 2009. He is primarily responsible for the freshman computer science curriculum and artificial intelligence track courses at Drexel. He has been the Principal Investigator on three NSF-DUE grants and a Microsoft Research University Relations Tablet PC Development Grant for innovation in teaching computer programming courses. In 1999, he was awarded Drexel's Undergraduate Teaching Award for Senior Faculty. He served three terms as an Executive Officer of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, including five years as President.

Michael Atwood

Michael Atwood is the Associate Dean for Research at The iSchool at Drexel. He holds his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Colorado. Dr. Atwood's major teaching interests include human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on human-computer interaction, supporting communication and collaboration among groups involved in system design activities, and on organizational memory. His professional experience includes research and development of interactive systems and expert systems, software engineering process improvement, software project management, and software product development.

David Gefen

David Gefen teaches Strategic Management of IT, Outsourcing, Analysis and Design, Database Analysis and Design, and VB.NET. He received his Ph.D. in CIS from Georgia State University and a Master of Sciences in MIS from Tel-Aviv University. His research focuses on trust and culture as they apply to the psychological and rational processes involved in Outsourcing, Managing IS projects, ERP, and e-commerce. David’s wide interests in IT adoption and management stem from his 12 years of experience in developing and managing large information systems. His research findings have been published in the top MIS journals, including MISQ, ISR, JMIS, IEEE TEM, Omega, JAIS, CAIS, and elsewhere. David is an author of a textbook on VB.NET programming. David is on the Editorial Boards of MISQ, JMIS, and DATABASE.

Peter Grillo

Peter Grillo, Ph.D. is an associate professor at The iSchool at Drexel. Grillo's teaching interests include information systems management, system analysis and design, distributed systems, and database management systems. His research interests are in the strategic applications of technology within organizations.

Jeremy Johnson

Jeremy Johnson is Professor and Department Head for Computer Science at Drexel University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and the University of Delaware respectively, and his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include computer algebra algorithms and systems, high performance computing, domain specific languages and hardware and code generation, and automatic performance tuning. He is a founding member of the SPIRAL project (www.spiral.net), a joint project, with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to automatically implement and optimize signal and image processing algorithms. Tools from SPIRAL are currently used by Intel in the development of their high-performance libraries MKL (Math Kernel Library) and IPP (Intel Performance Primitives). He has built special purpose hardware, under a grant from the Department of Energy, for high speed simulation of the power grid and has a patent for computing multi-dimensional Fourier transforms using the dimensionless fast Fourier transform, an algorithm he and his colleagues invented. He currently serves on the editorial board of the journal on Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing, as chair of the ACM special interest group in Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation (SIGSAM) and chair of the Computer and Cognitive Science cluster of the Franklin Institutes' Committee on the Sciences and the Arts.

Mark Hempstead

Mark Hempstead is the Junior Colehower Chair Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. His research group at Drexel investigates methods to increase energy efficiency across the boundaries of circuits, architecture, and systems. Currently, they are exploring the performance and energy benefits of heterogeneity in future microprocessor architectures. Dr. Hempstead received a BS in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and his MS and PhD in Engineering from Harvard University. Mark has developed custom microchips for low power applications and worked in the research divisions of Intel and ARM.

Troy Finamore

Troy Finamore is the Program Director of the Digital Media Program of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts at Drexel University. He teaches course work in Web Development and Interaction Design. Before teaching at Drexel, Troy worked as art director for advertising, design and interactive agencies in New York City. His work has won awards and been published in advertising and design annuals, including Advertising Age's Encyclopedia of Advertising. He also runs Finamore Design, an agency that specializes in brand development for both print and web. He received a B.A. in FIne Art from California State University, Fullerton, a Certificate in Web Development from NYU, and is currently working a M.S.I.S. in Drexel's iSchool.