Courses & Faculty

Alan J. Zillich

Dr. Zillich graduated with a BS and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from Purdue University. Then, he completed four years of post-graduate training. First, at the University of Kentucky, he completed a general practice (PGY1) residency and a specialty residency in ambulatory care (PGY2). Then, he completed a health outcomes research fellowship at the University of Iowa Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine. He has served on NIH and VA grant review panels and provided leadership on the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Research Institute Board of Trustees. He has published more than 110 peer reviewed publications and been awarded more than 4 million dollars in research grants.

Ankita Raturi

Ankita received her PhD in Software Engineering from the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where she took a human-centered approach to the design of a Modeling Sustainable Systems (MoSS) framework for representing complex, adaptive, agricultural systems. From 2018-2019, Ankita was with the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Lab at USDA ARS and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at NC State. Ankita leads the Agricultural Informatics Lab, focused on human-centered design, information modeling, and software engineering, for increased resilience in food and agricultural systems

Bill Watson

With a background in computer information and technology, Dr. Bill Watson’s experiences teaching undergraduates fresh out of high school led him to transition to the field of education, where his initial focus on educational video games as a form of engaging instruction expanded into how technology can be used to leverage the realization of a new paradigm of education – one focused on personalized learning. He collaborated on the design of Purdue’s digital badges platform, Passport, which has was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, Campus Technology, and U.S. News and World Report.

Cherie Maestas

Cherie D. Maestas, is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. Previously she served as the Marshall A. Rauch Professor of Political Science and Director of the interdisciplinary Public Policy Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2000. Dr. Maestas received her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2000. Her current research examines how emotions and personal characteristics (e.g. emotion regulation, personality traits, political predispositions) moderate the effects of media messages and policy framing.

Kyle Hultgren

Kyle Hultgren is the founding director of the Purdue University College of Pharmacy’s Center for Medication Safety Advancement. Dr. Hultgren is a co-author of a process improvement program in partnership with Purdue University and the United States Veterans Health Administration that has been provided to thousands of professionals in health systems nationwide. His current research includes extensive work on dashboards and measurement systems for evaluating and improving medication use systems and integration of publicly available social media data as potential surveillance signals. As a result of this work, he led his Center through the creation of SafeRx, a large, curated, relational database containing millions of adverse drug events.

Stephen Leitch

Stephen Leitch, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Purdue University, teaching business classes in Consumer Science and Hospitality Management. His teaching and research interests cover revenue management, marketing, and big data. He has won several innovation in teaching awards and holds strong ties to industry and the business community. He is also the Assistant Director in the Centre for Hospitality & Retail Industries Business Analytics at Purdue, speaker at many events, reviewer for several top journals and consultant on various industry projects. In addition to academics, Stephen founded and sold several retail/ecommerce businesses and is Executive Director for Millie’s Mission, a not-for-profit group of stores in Indiana.

Bryce Dietrich

Bryce Dietrich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and research scholar at the Center for C-SPAN Scholarship and Engagement (CCSE). His research uses novel quantitative, automated, and machine learning methods to analyze non-traditional data sources such as audio (or speech) data and video data. Professor Dietrich’s work has appeared in the Nature, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Political Psychology. This work has also received grant support from major organizations, including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and was recently a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Northeastern University.

Chris Clifton

Chris Clifton is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include data mining, data security, database support for text, and heterogeneous databases. Dr. Clifton works on challenges posed by novel uses of data mining technology, including data mining of text, data mining techniques applied to interoperation of heterogeneous information sources, and security and privacy issues raised by data mining. Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Clifton was a Principal Scientist in the Information Technology Division at the MITRE Corporation.

Dilip Chhajed

Dilip Chhajed serves as the Associate Dean for Online Programs and Strategic Innovations and as the Executive Director of the BS in Integrated Business and Engineering program. He spearheads the development and management of all online programs at the Daniels School of Business. Currently, the portfolio of online programs at DSB encompasses an MBA, MS in Business Analytics, MS in Global Supply Chain Management, MS in Human Resource Management, MS in Economics, and nine Graduate Certificates. Chhajed obtained his PhD from Purdue University, an MS from UT-Dallas, and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay. He has had the privilege of teaching at the University of Warsaw in Poland, Sogang University in South Korea, Purdue University, and GISMA in Hanover, Germany.

Petros Drineas

Petros Drineas is a Professor and Associate Head in the Computer Science Department of Purdue University. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Yale University in 2003 and a BS in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece in 1997. Drineas’ research interests lie in the design and analysis of randomized algorithms for linear algebraic problems, as well as their applications to the analysis of modern, massive datasets. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and was a Visiting Professor at the Sandia National Laboratories during the fall of 2005, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles in the fall of 2007, and has also worked for industrial labs (including Yahoo! Research and Microsoft Research).

Daniel Schiff

Dr. Schiff is an Assistant Professor of Technology Policy at Purdue University’s Department of Political Science and the Co-Director of GRAIL, the Governance and Responsible AI Lab. Dr. Schiff studied Philosophy at Princeton University, focusing on robotics and intelligent systems, before completing a Master’s in Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a policy scientist with a background in philosophy, he studies the formal and informal governance of AI through policy and industry, as well as AI’s social and ethical implications in domains like education, manufacturing, finance, and criminal justice.

Kaylyn Schiff

Kaylyn Schiff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University and Co-Director of the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL). Dr. Schiff studies American politics and policy, with a focus on quantitative and experimental methods. Her research addresses how citizens share information with government and examines the drivers of policymaker and bureaucrat responsiveness to citizen input. Kaylyn received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Emory University and completed a B.A. in Public Policy from Princeton University and an M.Ed. from Fordham University. For the 2022-2023 academic year, she was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.

Corey Maley

Corey Maley is an associate professor of philosophy, coming to Purdue from the University of Kansas. He spent some years as an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, quadruple-majoring in computer science, mathematics, philosophy, and psychology, and getting both a B.S. and a B.A. for all that effort. He then worked in a cognitive neuroscience lab at Washington University in St. Louis, where he learned to do real science, as well as appreciate that his talents primarily lie in being a philosophical consumer—rather than producer—of science. He then went to graduate school at Princeton University, getting his Ph.D. in the Logic and Philosophy of Science program in the philosophy department. Corey’s primary focus is on foundational issues in the philosophy of computation and the sciences that use computation as a conceptual framework for understanding other phenomena.