Spring 2023 Academic Affairs Opening Virtual Meeting
Dr. Joseph P. Bailey
Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Joseph P. Bailey has been a faculty member at the University of Maryland since 1998. From 2009-2014 and again from 2017-2021 he was Executive Director of the QUEST Honors Program. During the interim, he was an Edison Scholar at the United States Patent and Trademark Office developing improved artificial intelligence tools for automated patent search. Dr. Bailey teaches a number of undergraduate and graduate courses in data science, information systems, and systems design including the middle two courses in the QUEST curriculum. He serves on the board of several tech startups. Dr. Bailey has a Ph.D. from the Technology, Management and Policy Program at MIT, an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Samuel Graham, Jr.
Dean of the Clark School of Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Samuel Graham, Jr. is the Nariman Farvardin Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was a professor and chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a joint appointment with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nagoya University (Japan), serves on the Emerging Technologies Technical Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Engineering Science Research Foundation of Sandia National Laboratories. His research expertise is in the thermal characterization and reliability of wide bandgap semiconductor technologies and the packaging of organic and flexible electronics.
Ms. Chelsea Moyer
Assistant Vice Provost of UMBC at The Universities at Shady Grove
Ms. Chelsea Moyer, MSW, LMSW serves as the Assistant Vice Provost of UMBC at The Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland. Through this role, and in collaboration with her administrative team, she leads the overall administrative operations in support of students, staff, faculty, and all undergraduate and graduate programs offered on-site at UMBC-Shady Grove. She has worked at UMBC-Shady Grove in a variety of administrative capacities over the last decade with a particular focus on transfer student recruitment, retention, as well as student leadership and development. Prior to employment at UMBC, Chelsea worked at The Pennsylvania State University for a total of seven years in diverse student-centered roles and with a variety of federally funded TRIO programs (Educational Talent Search and Student Support Services) focused on recruiting, retaining, and supporting first-generation and low-income individuals through the academic pipeline from middle school to baccalaureate degree completion. Chelsea earned her baccalaureate degree through the College of William and Mary and her Master of Social Work through the University of Maryland School of Social Work. In addition to her position at UMBC, Chelsea is a licensed social worker currently practicing in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Dr. Amitabh Varshney
Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Amitabh Varshney is Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. Varshney is currently exploring applications of virtual and augmented reality in several applications, including education, healthcare, and telemedicine. His research focus is on exploring the applications of high-performance visualization in engineering, science, and medicine. He has worked on a number of research areas including visual saliency, summarization of large visual datasets, and visual computing for big data. He has served in various roles in the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, including as its Chair, 2008–2012. He received the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2004. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Visualization Academy.