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Central Faculty Expertise

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Diana Cohen

Professor

Political Science

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

cohendit@ccsu.edu
860.832.2962

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Evaluation
  • Surveys
  • DEEP
  • BESB
  • BRS
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Ben Tyson

Professor

Communications

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

tysonc@ccsu.edu
860.832.2699

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Audience research and program design
  • Hospital for Special Care
  • Manes and Motion
  • YWCA
  • CT Forest and Park Association
  • NB Chamber of Commerce
  • Education/Communication/Social Marketing Program Design/Evaluation

John Mitrano

Professor

Sociology

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

mitranoj@ccsu.edu
860.832.3145

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Survey research; quantitative
  • Newington Housing Survey
  • Organizational Justice and Workplace Fairness
  • Italian American Culture and Identity
  • Route 66 in Popular Culture
  • Experiential Learning and its Assessment
  • Sport Franchise Relocation
  • Sport Spectator Motivation and Behavior
  • Involuntary Disengagement from Sport
  • Sport and Disaster
  • Qualitative Research Methodology
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Heidi Hughes

Associate Professor

Management and Organization

School of Business

h.hughes@ccsu.edu
860.832.0135

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Employment Area
  • Career Identities
  • Social Capital
  • Ethnography
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Change Management
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Timothy Garceau

Associate Professor/ Department Chair

Geography, Anthropology, and Tourism

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

tgarceau@ccsu.edu
860.832.2782

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Transportation Planning
  • City Planning
  • Human Geography
  • Physical Geography
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Yunliang Meng

Professor

Geography, Anthropology, and Tourism

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

mengy@ccsu.edu
860.832.2789

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • GIS
  • GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Making
  • Social/Environmental Justice and Crime Analysis

Lisa McMahon

Assistant Professor/ CCHEC Coordinator

College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Lisa.mcmahon@ccsu.edu
860.832.2161

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Exercise
  • Fitness
  • Health
  • Community Relations
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Keshab Acharya

Associate Professor

Management and Organization

School of Business

keshab.acharya@ccsu.edu
860.832.3283

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Management/Entrepreneurship

Armel Djangone

Assistant Professor

Management Information Systems

School of Business

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

adjangone@ccsu.edu

  • Management Information Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
Chad Williams

Chad Williams

Professor / Department Chair

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

cwilliams@ccsu.edu
860.832.2719

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Intrusion Detection
  • Soft. Eng.
  • CS Ed
  • Cybersecurity
  • Software Engineering
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining

Mahdieh Zabihimayvan

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

zabihimayvan@ccsu.edu
860.832.2716

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Attack Detection
  • Dark Web

Md Rafiul Hassan

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

mdrafiul.hassan@ccsu.edu
860.832.2721

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Deep Learning
  • ML Image Processing

Neli Zlatareva

Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

zlatareva@ccsu.edu
860.832.2723

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Semantic Web
Dr. Ramyapandian Vijayakanthan

Ramyapandian Vijayakanthan

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

r.vijayakanthan@ccsu.edu
860.832.2724

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Intrusion Detection

W. Chandima Fernando

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

chandima@ccsu.edu

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • AI Robotics

Yusuf Albayram

Associate Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

yusuf.albayram@ccsu.edu
860.832.2715

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Usable Security
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Zdravko Markov

Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

markovz@ccsu.edu
860.832.2711

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Machine Learning

Stan Kurkovsky

Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

kurkovsky@ccsu.edu
860.832.2720

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Software Engineering
  • CS Ed
  • Software Development
  • Computer Security
  • Manufacturing
  • Industrial Robotics Applications
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Samir Hamada

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

hamadas@ccsu.edu
860.832.2718

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Applications of AI

Brad Kjell

Professor

Computer Science

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

kjell@ccsu.edu
860.832.2717

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • CS Education
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Dan Kirby

Department Chair

Manufacturing & Construction Management

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

kirbyerd@ccsu.edu
860.832.1691

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Manufacturing
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Haoyu Wang

Professor

Manufacturing & Construction Management

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

wanghao@ccsu.edu
860.832.1824

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • CAD
  • GD&T
  • Robotics

Zbigniew Prusak

Professor

Engineering

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

prusakz@ccsu.edu
860.832.1826

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • GD&T
  • Design for Manufacturing
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Naoumov Viacheslav

Professor

Engineering

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

naoumovvii@ccsu.edu
860.832.1820

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Rocket Propulsion
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Young Moo Sohn

Associate Professor

Engineering

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

ymsohn@ccsu.edu
860.832.1812

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Structures

Talat Salama

Professor

Manufacturing & Construction Management

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

talats@ccsu.edu
860.832.2619

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Structures
  • Construction Materials
  • Instrumentation and testing of bridges
  • Sustainable concrete mix design
  • Rehabilitation of deteriorating structures
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Bin (Brenda) Zhou

Professor

Engineering

School of Engineering, Science, and Technology

zhoubin@ccsu.edu
860.832.0075

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Transportation and Regional Policy Quantitative Analyses and Modeling Techniques
  • Spatial Econometrics in Land Development
  • Integrated Transport-land Use Models
  • Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
  • Travel Survey and Travel Behavior Analysis
  • Transportation Safety
  • STEM Education and Outreach.
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Tyler Kynn

Assistant Professor

History

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

tkynn@ccsu.edu
860.832.2809

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Ottoman Empire
  • Islamic World
  • Histories of Mobility
  • Early Modern World
  • Digital History
  • Historical Game Studies

Caleb Bragg

Associate Professor

Psychological Science

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

bragg.cb@ccsu.edu 
860.832.3109

Areas of Expertise/ Interests

  • Survey Design
  • Occupational Stress
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Career Readiness
  • College to Career Transition
  • Leadership
  • Strategic Change Management