Faculty

Mirela Alistar
Assistant Professor • Living Matter Lab • BIOCHIPS, PERSONAL MEDICINE, DIY BIO • COMPUTER SCIENCE
ATLAS Institute

John Bacus
Lecturer, Co-Chair Board of Advisors, ATLAS Institute • Vice President of User Software, PassiveLogic • DESIGN, AR/VR, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
ATLAS Institute

Amy Banić
Visiting Associate Professor • 3D UI, AR/VR/XR, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, HCI
Computer Science

Matthew Bethancourt
Teaching Associate Professor • Whaaat?! Lab • GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL SOUND
ATLAS Institute

Carson Bruns
Assistant Professor • Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials • CREATIVE MOLECULAR NANOTECH • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Ruscha Cohen
Lecturer • Co-Director Graduate Programs • GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Kevin Cook
Lecturer • UI/UX
User Interface Designer • Amazon

Laura Devendorf
Assistant Professor • Unstable Design Lab • SMART TEXTILES, HCI, DESIGN RESEARCH • INFORMATION SCIENCE

Arielle Dispenza
Director of Undergraduate Programs • Teaching Assistant Professor • HCI, INTERACTION DESIGN, ART

Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Professor • Director, ATLAS Partnerships & Innovation • ACME Lab • DESIGN, TANGIBLE INTERACTION, HAPPY HEALTHY LIVING • COMPUTER SCIENCE

Jill Van Matre Dupré
ATLAS Associate Director • Co-Director Graduate Programs • Professor of Engineering Practice • TECH POLICY, SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT, INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION

Steven Frost
Faculty Director, B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance
Media Studies

Justin Gitlin
Lecturer • Industry Mentor • CREATIVE CODER • MUSICIAN • MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
CACHEFLOWE

Greg Greenstreet
Lecturer • BIG DATA
Senior Director of Engineering • Splunk

Mark D. Gross
Professor • ATLAS Director • DESIGN, ROBOTICS, TANGIBLE INTERACTION • COMPUTER SCIENCE
ATLAS Institute

Torin Hopkins
Lecturer • PhD Student • MUSIC, MUSIC INTERACTIONS, TANGIBLE MUSICAL OBJECTS
ATLAS Institute

Kevin Hoth
Lecturer • PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL IMAGING
ATLAS Institute

Rita Klees
Adjunct Professor
Civil • Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Megan Leahy Friesth
Lecturer • MS, TMS—Creative Technologies + Design '16
ATLAS Institute

Daniel Leithinger
Assistant Professor • THING Lab • SHAPE CHANGING & HAPTIC INTERFACES • COMPUTER SCIENCE

Annie Margaret
Teaching Assistant Professor • STORYTELLING • PSYCHOTECHNOLOGIES • ATTENTION ACTIVISM
ATLAS Institute

Erika Palmer
Lecturer • SOCIAL IMPACT

Aileen Pierce
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs • Teaching Associate Professor • MOBILE APPS, INTERACTIVE WEB

Anthony Pinter
Lecturer
ATLAS Institute

Denise Powell
Lecturer • MS, TMS—Information and Communication Technology for Development '18

Danny Rankin
Teaching Assistant Professor • Whaaat!? Lab • MATERIALS, GAMES, GRAPHIC DESIGN

Sheiva Rezvani
Teaching Assistant Professor • ART & DESIGN, SOCIOTECHNOLOGY, DEAD MEDIA

David Schaal
Teaching Associate Professor • Lead Multimedia Instructor • SOUND DESIGN, DIGITAL ARTS

Zachary Schwemler
Lecturer • MS, CTD—Creative Industries '22
ATLAS Institute

Joel Swanson
Assistant Professor • TYPO Studio • ART, DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY • Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society

Zoe Tran Do
Lecturer • USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
ATLAS Institute

Brittney Urich
Lecturer • USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
ATLAS Institute

Zack Weaver
Lecturer
ATLAS Institute

Shaz Zamore
Teaching Assistant Professor • STEM Outreach • OUTREACH & INCLUSION, NEUROENGINEERING, VR/AR
Post Docs and Research Interns

Hyejin Kwon
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Mechanical Engineering

Michael Rivera
Post-Doctoral Researcher • Computing Innovation Fellow • HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION • DIGITAL FABRICATION
ATLAS Institute

Midhun Sreekumar Menon
NASA Post-Doctoral Associate
ATLAS Institute
Affiliate Faculty

Alaa Ahmed
Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology • Mechanical Engineering

Lecia Barker
Associate Professor
Information Science

August Black
Assistant Professor, Critical Media Practices
College of Media Communication and Information

Jed Brubaker
Assistant Professor
Information Science

Nikolaus Correll
Associate Professor
Computer Science

Marcel de Lange
Assistant Clinical Professor
Program of Environmental Design

Pierre de Vries
Scholar-in-Residence by courtesy
ATLAS

Ann Eisenberg
Senior Research Associate
Institute of Cognitive Science

Laurie Gries
Assistant Professor
Communications

Dale Hatfield
Spectrum Initiative Co-Director

Shaun Kane
Associate Professor • Superhuman Computing Lab • ACCESSIBLITY, MOBILE HCI
Computer Science

Brian Keegan
Assistant Professor
Information Science

Clayton Lewis
Professor Emeritus
Computer Science

Dan Ligon
Professor of Practice
Advertising PR and Media Design

Shelly Miller
Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Shalom Ruben
Senior Instructor • AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS, SIGNALS PROCESSING
Mechanical Engineering

Wayne Seltzer
Technologist-in-Residence • ELECTRONICS, DIY, U-FIXIT
ATLAS Institute

Aubrey Shick
Research Affiliate
ATLAS Institute

Doug Smith
Assistant Dean for Programs and Engagement
College of Engineering & Applied Science

Dan Szafir
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill • Former ATLAS faculty member

Danielle Szafir
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill • Former ATLAS faculty member

Heather Underwood
Lecturer • ENTREPRENEUR • BIODESIGN CONSULTANT

Amy Voida
Assistant Professor
Information Science

Stephen Voida
Assistant Professor • Founding Faculty
Information Science

Gregory L Whiting
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Helanius J. Wilkins
Assistant Professor
Theater and Dance

Tom Yeh
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Affiliated Researcher

Alex Eldridge
Affiliated Researcher
Industry Mentors

Lennon Barnica
Industry Mentor • Executive Producer, Plus Productions; Owner/Furniture Maker, Dean Designs

Todd Berger
Industry Mentor • CEO Co-Founder Ello, the creators network • Co-Founder Berger & Föhr

Justin Gitlin
Lecturer • Industry Mentor • CREATIVE CODER • MUSICIAN • MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
CACHEFLOWE

Courtney Loveman
Industry Mentor • VP, Chief Strategy Officer at Noun (CP+B Brand Invention)

Tran Wills
Industry Mentor • Creative Director/Entrepreneur • Co-Founder of Base Coat Nail Salon, SVPER ORDINARY